OUTAGAMIE, a county in the N. E. central part of Wisconsin, contains 675 square miles. It is intersected by Neenah and Wolf rivers. The surface is nearly level, and mostly covered with forests of pine and other timber, from which large quantities of lumber are procured. The soil is moderately productive. Lumber, grass, potatoes, Indian corn, and oats are the staples. The Neenah river furnishes abundant water-power. Outagamie was separated from Brown county in 1850. Capital, Appleton. (Baldwin's New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States..., 1854)
OUTAGAMIE, County, is bounded on the north by Oconto and a portion of Waupacca, east by Brown, south by Calumet and Winnebago, and west by Waupacca, and is 24 miles north and south by 27 miles east and west. It was established Feb.17, 1851, from Brown, to which it remained attached for judicial purposes until March 15, 1852, when it was completely organized. The boundaries were defined March 4, 1852. The seat of justice is about half way between the villages of Appleton and Grand Chute, and about a mile from each. The general surface of the county is level and covered with a heavy growth of timber, such as maple, elm, ash and hickory, with but little or no waste lands. The soil is good, but the agricultural existence of the county is so recent, little can be said of its capabilities. All the crops that have been tested here have succeeded beyond the expectations of the farmer. The population, now numbering about 4,000, is composed of good, rural, and industrious settlers, mostly from New England and New York. It is watered by the Lower Fox on the southeast, and by Wolf river on the west, and Duck Creek on the northeast. This county belongs to the fourth judicial circuit, to the second senate, and to the third congressional districts, and with Oconto, constitutes an assembly district. County Officers for 1853 and 1854: Judge, Perry H. Smith; Sheriff, A. B. Everts; Clerk of Court, H. S. Eggleston; Attorney, A. S. Sanborn; Register of Deeds, J. S. Buck; Clerk of Board of Supervisors, Gr. W. Gregory; Treasurer, Robert Morrow; Surveyor, Chas. Turner; Coroner, Patrick Hunt. (John Warren Hunt, Wisconsin Gazetteer..., Madison, 1853)