Wisconsin Counties and Towns
Clark County Genealogy and History
Clark County Genealogy Links WI Roots: Wisconsin Counties : Clark
Established: 1853
County Seat: Neillsville
Parent: Crawford County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
 Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1869
Deaths 1877
Marriages 1857

Courthouse:
517 Court St.(location)
P. O. Box 384 (mailing)
Neillsville, WI 54456-0384
Telephone: (715) 743-5162

CLARK.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
pg. 58-59

A County recently formed from Chippewa and many of the characteristics of that County. It is yet but thinly settled--most of the pine lands having been purchased by the lumberman, while most of the desirable portions for farming are still vacant. Nearly all the produce of the farms will find a ready market for years to come, to the lumbermen, without the labor and expense of transportation to a distant market. Labor, also, is in great demand, and commands the highest prices. 50,000,000 feet is probably a low estimate for the amount of lumber cut and to be sent to market this season.

The County is well watered by the Eau Clair (sic), Black and Yellow Rivers, and their innumerable branches. It is generally timbered along the water courses with the best quality of Pine; back from and between the streams with a mixed growth of maple, oak, butternut, birch, ash, &c. In the southwest portion are some small prairies, and on the heads of most of the small streams meadows made by beaver dams. The face of the country is slightly rolling, but less so than the prairies in the southern portion of the State, and by many the soil is considered equally productive.

The principal improvement made in the County is at Weston's Rapids, where a flouring mill has been built, and as this is on the new road opening from Stevens Point to Hudson, a permanent bridge has been built across the Black River, by the enterprising proprietor of the 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.

  • Wisconsin Biographies Project-Clark County-Offsite link with a few biographies online.

 

Census

 

Cemeteries & Deaths

 

Area History

 

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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