Jackson County, Wisconsin Genealogy and History
Established: 1853
County Seat: Black River Falls
Parent: LaCrosse 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
JACKSON.
pg. 76
Jackson Country is watered by Black River and its tributaries, which afford abundance of water power. The southern part is mostly prairie-the northern abounds in pine, which is floated down Black River. The land is represented to be of the best quality, and the County is rapidly filling with settlers.
Iron ore is found in abundance, and the mines will soon be worked.
Black River Falls, the Country Seat, has an excellent water power. A large amount of lumber is manufactured yearly at this point, and mills and machine shops are under process of construction, together with rolling mills for the manufacture of iron.
Cataract, on Rathbun Creek, is a small village, has a saw and grist mill, and a Post Office is established there.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- USGenWeb Archives - Jackson County - US GenWebArchives -
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -
Vital Records
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1876
Deaths 1876
Marriages 1858
Jackson Register of Deeds:
307 Main Street
Black River Falls, WI 54615-1785
Telephone: (715) 284-0205
- 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
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Jackson County - Jackson 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.
Maps and Atlases
Military
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Monroe, Juneau, Jackson Counties Genealogy Workshop - The Monroe, Juneau, Jackson counties genealogy workshop (MJJ) is the Genealogy Society for Monroe County, Wisconsin, and also includes the Wisconsin Counties of Juneau and Jackson. -
- Newspapers in Jackson County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
