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Portage is a city in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 9,728 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Columbia CountyGR6. Portage is named for the Fox-Wisconsin Waterway, a portage between the Fox River and the Wisconsin River which was recognized by Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet during their discovery of a route to the Mississippi river in 1673.

The Native American tribes that once lived in the region, and later the European traders and settlers, took advantage of the lowlands between the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers as a natural portage, which eventually lends itself to the name of the community, taken from the word the French fur traders used to describe the place, le portage. As a portage, this community developed as a center of commerce and trade.