Wisconsin Counties and Towns
Bayfield County Genealogy and History
Bayfield County Genealogy Links WI Roots: Wisconsin Counties : Bayfield
Originally LaPointe County
Renamed Bayfield in 1866
Established: 1845
County Seat: Washburn
Parent: Ashland County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
 Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1879
Deaths 1870
Marriages 1869

Bayfield County Register of Deeds:
P. O. Box 813
Washburn, WI 54891-9464
Telephone: (715) 373-6119

LA POINTE.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
pg. 81

Lies on Lake Superior, and embraces a territory about 54 miles square, and the group of islands in the Lake known as the Twelve Aportles [sic Apostles]. The land is not yet surveyed, and of course not in market. But little is known of the country. The County Seat is on the south-west extremity of Madeline Island, which gives its name to the village and county-"The Point.". La Pointe village is the oldest settlement of the State, not excepting Green Bay. It is the best fishing ground on the whole Lake for trout, siscoette, and white fish, more than a thousand barrels of which are annually packed at this place.


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Genealogy Links

    Free Links by Joan-GoldenRuleGen.com- Although Joan is a professional genealogist, she believes in the concept of data being presented for free on the internet. She is the USGenWeb coordinator for Adams and Marquette county. She has transcribed a multitude of data for various county sites. Her professional focus is in Adams, Clark, Jackson, Juneau, Portage, Waushara, and Wood Counties, WI.

    Jansdigs Bayfield County-Jan has a genealogy and history website dedicated to providing free genealogy to researchers. She has contributed a lot to the genealogy community by way of her state and county sites.

    Wisconsin Biographies Project-Bayfield County-Offsite link with a few biographies online

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    Maps

    • Original Field Notes and Plat Maps From Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records. his website provides access to scanned images of the original General Land Office survey field notes and plat maps. All of this material is based on the township, range and section descriptions of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). To effectively use this material, you will need to know this description for the property you are researching. This legal description can be derived from topographic maps, land ownership maps, deeds and or property tax bills among other sources. Offsite link

    • 1901 County Maps - The Wisconsin county maps presented here were scanned in individually from the large Wisconsin map in the Rand McNally New Standard Atlas of the World, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1901. They should be of interest to genealogists because they show the locations of many places that no longer exist. Offsite link by Rick Hagen

    • Current County Map, The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. Produced at a 1:100,000 scale the maps contain the following pieces of information: Major local road networks, Interstate corridors, U.S., state, and county routes, Recreation areas, Points of interest, Hospitals, Schools, Airports, Urban boundaries, Railroads, Town roads, Federal and state forest boundaries, Indian reservations, Township boundaries.

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