One crew marked all the section corners of the township, walking through the woods and wading the rivers, measuring with chain and compass.

The Township is covered with timber mostly Pine, Hemlock, Tamarac, Cedar and some Sugar Birch and Maple.

The Chippewa River runs in a southerly direction through the west part of the Township and Fisher River runs through the South East part Both of the streams have a rapid current and furnish good motive power for Mills.

[6]Originally called Little Falls in the 1870s, the community was established by the Union Lumbering Company along the Chippewa River and came to be known as Holcombe years later.

[7] The original Little Falls dam was built in 1878 by Elijah Swift and Joseph Viles for the Chippewa River Improvement and Log Driving Company.

With its gates wide open it could raise the Chippewa 3 feet (0.91 m), 100 miles (160 km) downstream.

[8] The journal of the dam's keeper from 1882 to 1890 still survives, briefly describing log drives and jams and the flood of 1884.

The flowage is a popular recreation area, and the shores are thick with homes and cottages.

The Holcombe Flowage ("Lake Holcombe") takes up the northern part of the town's western boundary, impounding the Chippewa River itself but also extending east across the northern part of the town where the Jump River enters.