Iowa County
Established: 1829
County Seat: Dodgeville
Parent: Territorial County
* Records before the establishment of the county may be in the parent records.
Neighboring Counties
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From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
IOWA.--Population 14,440 (1855).
pg. 75
This is a mineral County, and one of the richest. It has a large trade in lead and copper which centers at Mineral Point. There are few countries abounding in minerals where the soil pays a fair remuneration to the cultivator. Yet the soil of this and the neighboring Counties, is as good and as fruitful as any in Wisconsin. There is no better for Indian corn, and it is not surpassed for other products of the State. The surface is abruptly rolling, well watered, being prairie and openings. There is some good land not yet taken up.
Mineral Point, the County Seat, is the largest and oldest village in that region. It is a thrifty place, the center of a large mineral trade, and has smelting furnaces of lead and copper. It bids fair to be a large place, and will soon have an outlet in the Mineral Point Rail Road, down the Pickatonica to the State line, to unite with the Chicago and Galena at Freeport. The Milwaukee and Mississippi Rail Road is to pass along the northern boundary.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- USGenWeb Archives - Iowa County - US GenWebArchives -
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -
Vital Records
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1876
Deaths 1871
Marriages 1836
Iowa County Courthouse
222 N. Iowa St.
Dodgeville, WI 53533-1557
Telephone: (608) 935-5628
- 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. -
Cemetery and Obituary Links
- Arena Cemetery Index - Index of burials. There are over 1,500 people buried in the cemetery located on Hwy. 14. -
- Iowa County Civil War Vets at Find-A-Grave - Burials of civil war veterans in Iowa county area cemeteries. -
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Iowa County - Iowa County Wisconsin Cemetery pages with photos of select tombstones. -
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.
- History of Iowa County, 1881 - An account of its settlement, growth, development and resources...biographical sketches.. (1881) -
- History of the Lead Region (Iowa County) - Read More About the History of the Lead Region -
- Photographs of Iowa County - The Mineral Point Historical Society has a collection of over 1200 glass plate negatives from approximately 1880 through 1910. -
- Stone masons of Iowa County - Along with the immigrants who were miners, also came men that were stone masons. -
Maps and Atlases
Military
- Civil War Soldiers Iowa County - Images of Civil War Soldiers with Iowa County Connections -
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Arena Historians - Arena Historians are volunteers dedicated to preserving the history of the greater Arena area. -
- Iowa County Historical Society - Official Iowa County Historical Society website. -
- Mineral Point Historical Society - Official Mineral Point Historical Society website. -
- Newspapers in Iowa County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
