The Town[3] of Smelser is located in southeastern Grant County, Wisconsin, United States.

The unincorporated communities of Bigpatch, Elmo, Georgetown, and Saint Rose are located in the town.

The town was also known as Smeltzer or Smeltzer's Grove (the latter being technically the name of the post office in the town); this name appears, for instance in the original Wisconsin Constitution and the first edition of the Wisconsin Blue Book,[4] and will occasionally be found in official use at least as late as 1870.

[5] Butterfield's 1881 History of Grant County describes early settler J. M. Smelser as "a native of Bourbon Co., Kentucky.

"[6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.1 square miles (90.9 km2), all of it land.