Of them, the description of west-central Westboro (T33N R1W) is clearest: This Township contains a few Tamarac and Cedar Swamps of Small extent, most of them unfit for cultivation.

It is a deep and narrow Stream flows in a gentle current, not good for forming Motive Power for Mill.

There is another Stream of considerable extent enters the Township near the South East corner and runs in a gentle current Northwesterly.

[8] A different surveyor in 1862 was more enthusiastic about east-central Westboro, the six mile square where most of the population is today: A large portion of this Township is valuable for its splendid White Pine, also for its good soil.

[9]In the early 1870s the Wisconsin Central Railroad Company built its line up from Medford through the forest that would become Westboro.

To finance this undertaking, the railroad was granted half the land for 18 miles on either side of the track laid - generally the odd-numbered sections.

[12] In 1878 John Duncan had a "pole line" tramway hauling logs north along Fisher Creek to the millpond in Westboro to feed to his sawmill.

[11]: 1032  Outside the railroad and the village, an 1880 map shows some sort of road running east three miles from town to James Lake.

[15] A map from around 1900 shows a good number of homesteads along the railroad and along the two roads previously mentioned.

That railroad track was paralleled by some sort of road following the course of modern highway 102, with settlers along it.

Beyond that, no homesteads or roads are marked in the township until the Broederville settlement on the Jump River - then a part of Westboro.

Major landholders were the Wisconsin Central Railroad throughout most of the area, J. Duncan near his sawmill in Westboro, N. Wisconsin Land Company, Ramsay Land Company, and along the Yellow River, Chippewa Lumber and Boom and W.J.Starr.

On the east end around the railroad, a few roads had been extended and some lumber company land had been split up and sold to settlers.

[21] Beyond that, a few families had settled out near where the Jump River fire lookout would later be built, with a new rural school nearby.

[22] In 1933 much of the cut-over west half of the town of Westboro was designated part of the Chequamegon National Forest.