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Ashland County Genealogy and History

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Established as a county: 1860
County Seat: Ashland
Parent: Unorganized Territory

Ashland County was named in honor of the Lexington estate of Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, as one of the founders of the city of Ashland was an admirer of Clay.

Neighboring Counties

  • Iron County – east
  • Price County – southeast
  • Sawyer County – southwest
  • Bayfield County – northwest
  • Lake County, Minnesota – northwest
    (water boundary only, in Lake Superior)
  • Cook County, Minnesota – north
    (water boundary only, in Lake Superior)
  • Ontonagon County, Michigan – northeast
    (water boundary only, in Lake Superior)
  • Gogebic County, Michigan – northeast
    (water boundary only, in Lake Superior)

General Genealogy and History Links

This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.

  • Ashland County - by Jan Cortez - 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. (FREE) -
  • Ashland County Genealogy Trails Website - Information not links. Obituaries, biographies, county history, census enumerations, military records, cemetery burial data and newspaper stories for Ashland County Wisconsin. Regularly updated. -
  • Ashland County USGenWeb Archives - Select Vital and Land Records for Ashland County(FREE) -
  • WIGenWeb Adams County - Tombstone photos from Adams County Cemeteries -

Vital Records

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1876
Deaths 1877
Marriages 1874

*Records may contain dates previous to year listed. The registration may have occurred some time after the event date.

Ashland Register of Deeds:
201 West Main Street Rm 106
Ashland, WI 54806-1685
Telephone: (715) 682-7003

Cemetery and Obituary Links

Census Links

Censuses contain valuable information about families. This section contains links to transcribed censuses, census indexes or census images for the county.

Residents of the County

This section contains links to family tree websites, biographies and information about individuals that lived in the county.

Area History

This section contains links of published histories and historical information about the county, its villages, cities or towns. Sometimes within these histories is information about founders, or other people that settled in the area. It may also include ethnic or religious histories of the communities.

Maps and Atlases

  • 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. Offsite link by Rick Hagen (FREE) -
  • Apostle Islands National Lakeshore - Park Map 1987 (Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries The University of Texas at Austin) -
  • Apostle Islands National Lakeshore PDF format - Park Map 1997 (Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries The University of Texas at Austin)PDF Format -
  • Current County Map - The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. -
  • Original Field Notes and Plat Maps -Ashland County - 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. -

Military

Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources