Ford, Wisconsin
town in Wisconsin
Ford is a town in Taylor County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 265 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Polley is located in the town.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.1 square miles (90.8 km2), of which 32.8 square miles (84.8 km2) is land and 2.3 square miles (6.0 km2) (6.59%) is water. Chequamegon Waters, also known as Miller Dam, is a man-made lake that covers the northeast corner of Ford.
Most of Ford's soil is silt loam with a heavy subsoil. The southeastern corner of the town lies in the hilly terminal moraine that runs from Westboro through Perkinstown and Lublin - dumped by the last glacier. The rest of Ford is the flatter till plain left by the same glacier. The Yellow River and Hay Creek have cut channels through that flatter area. Beneath the glacial till, most of Ford's bedrock is volcanogenic metasedimentary rock, with smaller areas of amphibolite and sandstone.
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