Chelsea is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 0.46 square miles (1.19 km2), all of it land.

Then in April 1862 another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and swamps, measuring with chain and compass.

[7]In the early 1870s the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company built its line up through the forest on the east side of the six-mile square that would become Chelsea.

To finance this undertaking, the railroad was granted half the land for 18 miles on either side of the track laid - generally the odd sections.

[10] The 1911 plat map of the six mile square that would become Chelsea shows much of the same as 1880, but the road/track along Quarter Lane had disappeared.

By then the whole east and south edges of the town had a fairly complete grid of roads and dirt tracks.

In addition, that same area was starting to fill in with settlers holding parcels 40 acres and up.

Outside that band on the east and south, roads are sparse and much of the land is in larger chunks, with Medford Mfg.

[11] That Langenberg brickyard dug clay onsite from a layer ten to twelve feet thick, and formed and fired bricks in "permanent up draft kilns."

"[12] In 1933 much of the northwest quarter of Chelsea was designated part of the Chequamegon National Forest[13] As logging operations declined, the railroad continued hauling freight and passengers, but that business too eventually dwindled and in 1988 the trains stopped running on this stretch of railroad.