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Clark County

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Established: 1853
County Seat: Neillsville
Parent: Crawford County

* Records before the establishment of the county may be in the parent records.

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From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855

CLARK.
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.

General Genealogy and History Links

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

  • Clark County Internet Library - Tons of genealogy material online for Clark County. Thanks to ALHN & AHGP Internet Library Clark Co., WI American Local History Network - American History Genealogy Project. -
  • USGenWeb Archives - US GenWeb Archives for Clark County, Wisconsin -
  • WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -

Vital Records

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

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

Military

Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources