Catawba (town), Wisconsin

Catawba is a town in Price County, Wisconsin, United States.

Some of the earliest European Americans to walk the land that would become Catawba were the U.S. government's surveyors.

[1][2] When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description of the northern six miles of what would become Catawba: This Township contains numerous Tamarack W. Cedar and Alder Swamps all of which are unfit for cultivation.

Timber is chiefly Birch Hemlock Sugar Lind and Elm also some Pine.

[3]In 1858 another team of surveyors surveyed the section lines of the 6-mile square that is part of the south end of Catawba, and filed this general description: This Township contains Several Swamp of conisderable extent.

Timber Chiefly Hemlock, Birch, Maple, Pine, Tamarac and Cedar.

It is a narrow Deep Stream and very rapid not very good for forming motive powers for mills in this Township.