The six mile square that would become Cleveland was first surveyed in 1847 by a crew working for the U.S. government.

Then in 1854 another crew marked all the section corners in the township, walking through the woods and slogging through the swamps on foot, measuring with chain and compass.

The Meadow and Alder bottoms are all subject to be overflowed to a depth of 1 too 2 feet and are good for hay.

This Township is heavily Timbered and is chiefly composed of Hemlock Y. Birch W. Pine and Balsam.

The River enters the Township near the center of its East Boundary and flows in a Southerly and South-Westerly course with a switft current and is from 1 too 3 feet deep in a low Stage of water and is adapted to the forming of a good motive power for mills.

[5]The east end of Cleveland was logged at least by the early 1860s, when George Judson built a dam on the Yellow River near Hughey and started a pine logging camp nearby, on the east side of the township.

Omaha) built its line across the township, from Hannibal east to Hughey on the Yellow River.

[7] The 1911 plat map of the six mile square that would become Cleveland shows the two railroads in place, with Hannibal just north of their junction.

[8] In 1933 much of the cut-over east half of Cleveland was designated part of the Chequamegon National Forest[9] Bear Creek Hemlocks is a State Natural Area in the north east corner of Cleveland on the border with the town of Jump River, which includes two stands of old-growth hemlock.