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Vernon County
Vernon County was previously known as Bad Axe County
Bad Ax County was created on 1 March 1851 from territory that had been part of Richland and Crawford counties.
It was renamed to Vernon on 22 March 1862.
Vernon County's county seat is Viroqua.

Description from John W. Hunt's "1853 Wisconsin Gazetteer":  
"BAD AX, County, is bounded on the north by LaCrosse, on the east by Sauk and Richland, on the south by Richland and Crawford, and on the west by the Mississippi river , and was set off from Crawford and organized March 1, 1851. The county seat was established by a vote of the electors of the county on the 29th day of Jane, 1852, at Viroqua, near the centre of the county. The streams are the Bad Ax, Kickapoo and Racoon rivers, with their tributaries, and small streams emptying into the Mississippi . A large quantity (41,807 acres,) of that portion of school lands known as the 500,000 acre grant, is situated in Bad Ax county, the soil of which is good, and produces good crops of wheat, oats, corn, &c. This county is comparatively new, and contained in 1850 less than 700 inhabitants. During the last two years the population has increased very fast."

Cities
Hillsboro * Viroqua * Westby

Villages
Chaseburg * Coon Valley * De Soto (partly in Crawford County) * Genoa * La Farge *
Ontario * Readstown * Stoddard * Viola (mostly in Richland County)

Towns
Bergen * Christiana * Clinton * Coon * Forest * Franklin * Greenwood * Hamburg * Harmony * Hillsboro *
Jefferson * Kickapoo * Liberty * Stark * Sterling * Union * Webster * Wheatland * Whitestown

Unincorporated Communities
Avalanche * Bloomingdale * Bud * Dilly * Esofea * Fargo * Folsom * Greenwood * Kickapoo Center * Liberty * Liberty Pole *
Mount Tabor * Newry * Newton * Pleasant Valley * Purdy * Red Mound * Retreat * Rockton * Romance * Ross *
Springville * Sugar Grove * Trippville * Tunnelville (partial) * Valley * Victory * West Prairie * White City