Dodge County
Established: 1851
County Seat: Juneau
Parent: Territorial County
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1870
Deaths 1852
Marriages 1843
Dodge Register of Deeds
127 E. Oak St.
Juneau, WI 53039
Telephone: (920) 386-3270
DODGE-Population 34,054.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
pg. 62-64
A beautiful, rich, and healthy County. It is one of the best for agricultural purposes, well watered, diversified in surface, being prairie, openings, and a moderate amount of timber, and is of easy access to market. It has sufficient water power for ordinary purposes. The La Crosse and Milwaukee Rail Road passes through it nearly east and west. This will be completed to Horicon in November, and to Beaver Dam early in the winter.
The Milwaukee and Horicon Road leaves the track of the La Crosse at Horicon, running north to Berlin on the Fox. It will be in running order to Waupun early in the winter, and in connection with that part of the Valley Road from Waupun to Fond du Lac, will give the latter place a Rail Road connection with the lake shore.
The immense deposit of iron ore at Iron Ridge is one of the most remarkable in the north west. It lies within a mile of the La Crosse Rail Road, and five miles from Horicon. A furnace has already been erected at Mayville, which is manufacturing it extensively into pig iron, and there is little doubt that bar iron of the first quality can be manufactured directly from the ore.
The village of Junean (sic) in the town of Fairfield is the county seat.
Beaver Dam, at the outlet of Beaver Dam lake, is the largest place, containing a population in village and town of 3,000. Its growth at present is more rapid that at any former period. Horicon and Fox Lake are both of vigorous growth. Two wards of the city of Watertown are in Dodge County--the other three in Jefferson.
All the public lands are taken up. The County lies partly in Menasha land districts.
Genealogy and History Links
- Dodge Jefferson County Pedigree Collection - Dodge and Jefferson County Pedigree Collection
- Genealogy Resources at the Beaver Dam Library - Resources available at the Beaver Dam Library.
- Naturalization and Declaration of Intent Index - Naturalization and Declaration of Intent Index Minimal cost to order records.
- One Step Genealogy by Steve Morse - One step tools to get the genealogy information you are looking for....Quickly!
- USGenWeb Archives - Dodge County - "US GenWebArchives
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb
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Vital Records
- Pre-1907 Vital Records Index at the Wisconsin Historical Society - Pre-1907 Vital Records Index at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Search for births, deaths and marriages.
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Census Links
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Cemetery and Obituary Links
- Dodge County Cemetery Records - About half of the cemeteries in Dodge County have been indexed by local genealogists, many of them in the 1970s. These are indexed in a card file in the library. When available, external links to cemetery indexes in Dodge County have been supplied.
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Dodge County - Dodge County Wisconsin Cemetery pages with photos of select tombstones.
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Area History
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Maps and Atlases
- Dodge County Plat books, Maps and Atlases - The Library has several historical plat maps and atlases. These have all been indexed, either by the publishers or as a project of the Library.
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Military Records and Links
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Family Tree Websites
- Family Genealogies at the Beaver Dam Library - Family Trees available at the Beaver Dam Library.
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Related Websites
- Newspapers in Dodge - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress
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