Lincoln is a town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States.

It is probably a terminal moraine left where a continental glacier stopped advancing long ago.

The section northwest of the moraine is heavy clay soil on the till plain left by that glacier, with sandstone and granite beneath.

[3][4] The six mile square that would become Lincoln was first surveyed in the summer of 1851 by a crew working for the U.S. government.

In November and December 1853 another crew marked its section corners, walking through the woods and wading the streams, measuring with chain and compass.

A few months later, in June 1868, the township was renamed, after President Abraham Lincoln.