Editing Maplehurst, Wisconsin (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Maplehurst Wisconsin farm.jpg|230px|thumb|left|One-time dairy farm in a flat part of Maplehurst]]
According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of 35.9&nbsp;square miles (93.1&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), of which, 35.9&nbsp;square miles (93.0&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of it is land and 0.04&nbsp;square miles (0.1&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>) of it (0.06%) is water.

The northwest corner of Maplehurst lies in the hilly [[terminal moraine]] that runs from [[Westboro, Wisconsin|Westboro]] through [[Perkinstown, Wisconsin|Perkinstown]] and [[Lublin, Wisconsin|Lublin]]. That land is choppy because it has had only about 15,000 years to level out since it was dumped by the [[Wisconsin glaciation|last glacier]]. Within that northwest moraine are some ice-walled lake plains, which are fairly level and farmable. Outside Maplehurst's northwest corner, most of the town is fairly flat, covered with [[till]] deposited by some earlier glacier at an unknown date, with much more time to erode and level out. The Black River and smaller streams have cut channels through that flat area.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Attig|first=John W.|title=Pleistocene Geology of Taylor County, Wisconsin|journal=Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey|year=1993|volume=Bulletin 90|pages=20|url=https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/catalog/publication/000114|access-date=April 15, 2011}}</ref><ref name=Attig_map>{{cite book|last=Attig|first=John W.|title=Geological Map and Cross-sections of Taylor County, Wisconsin|date=1993|publisher=Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey|location=Madison|url=https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/catalog/publication/000114/resource/b090plate01|access-date=2024-06-13}}</ref>
[[Image:Taylor County glacial map.gif|thumb|upright=1.2|Glacial landforms of Taylor County.<ref name=Attig_map/>]]