According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 47.7 square miles (123.6 km2), all land.

[3] Like most of northern Wisconsin, the area that would become Lawrence was Ojibwe territory in the years before white contact.

[4] Some of the earliest European Americans to walk the six mile squares that would become Lawrence were the U.S. government's surveyors.

[5][6] When done, the deputy surveyor filed this general description for the western six miles of what would become Lawrence: This Township contains several swamps; and all are unfit for cultivation.

This Township is heavily Timbered and is chiefly composed of Hemlock Y Birch W Pine and maple on 3d rate soil.

The closest was a logging tote road from Chippewa Falls passing four miles to the west, following Main Creek.

Sage & Co., Cornell University, Bond Bros, and Empire Lumber Co.[9][10] The 1901 plat map showed a wagon road following the course of modern County B down from Glen Flora into the northwest corner of Lawrence, with a handful of settlers along it.

By 1911, the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips had run its line up from Jump River to Walrath and built a depot.

[12] The 1914 plat maps showed more settlers in the northwest corner, near Glen Flora, and one in the northeast.

It also showed a forerunner of Hunter Lane entering the town in the southeast from Jump River way, with a few settlers east of it.

The other new thing was the Stanley, Merrill and Phillips Railroad angling up into the town from Jump River.

[13][14] Plat maps from between 1915 and 1920 showed Lawrence's modern road grid more or less complete, though they were no doubt rough wagon tracks.

Walrath and John S. Owen Lumber Co.[15][16] A Ladysmith News article from 1923 stated that some of the last timber in the county was "...still standing in the southeastern townships.

It is safe to predict that practically all of Rusk county will be clear of its merchantable timber within ten years..."[17][18] As of the census[2] of 2000, there were 240 people, 90 households, and 56 families residing in the town.