Established: 1836
County Seat: Chilton
Parent: Territorial County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1858
Deaths 1856
Marriages 1850

Calumet Register of Deeds
206 Court St. 
Chilton, WI 53014-1127
Telephone: (920) 849-1441

CALUMET.--Population 3,633.

From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855

pg. 51-52

Lies on the cast shore of Lake Winnebago, and is yet but slightly settled compared with its surrounding neighbors. It is covered with a heavy growth of hard timber, and contains what was for a long time the Stockbridge Indian Reservation. These two causes, kept the settlers from this county until Winnebago, on the west side of the Lake, with the attractions of timber, openings and prairies had so far out-stripped Calumet in population that there is little prospect of its reaching that degree of prosperity which its neighbors have acquired. There are still the remains of the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indians in the County occupying their well tilled farms. The County is well watered, and contains much excellent land yet unoccupied.

Within a few months Calumet has advanced more rapidly in population, than at any previous period. In 1850 the population, including about 300 Indians, was 1740, in 1855 exclusive of the same, it was 3,531.

Chilton Centre, a flourishing village is the County Seat.

This County is wholly in the Green Bay land district, and entries must be made at the land offices at Menasha.