Kenosha County
Established: 1850
County Seat: Kenosha
Parent: Racine 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
KENOSHA.--Population 12,373 (1855).
pg. 78
This is one of the oldest and smallest Counties in the State, occupying the south-east corner on Lake Michigan. The County is mostly prairie, under excellent cultivation, and is but a sample of what Wisconsin will be in its manhood, wealthy and prosperous. There are of course no public lands to be obtained.
The Lake Shore Rail Road passes along the Lake, and the Kenosha and Janesville Rail Road is building.
Kenosha, the County Seat, is a prosperous place, and is noted for the enterprise and intelligence of its inhabitants. A large produce export business is done at this port, for which see the table of exports under its appropriate head.-Population 3,879.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- USGenWeb Archives - Kenosha 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 1850
Kenosha Register of Deeds
1010 56th St.
Kenosha, WI 53140-3738
Telephone: (414) 653-2444
- 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
- Oak Street Family of Properties Cemetery Database - Database of burials for Sunset Ridge Memorial Park in Kenosha and Arlington Park Cemetery, Forest Hill Memorial Park, Woodlawn Cemetery (all in Milw. county) -
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Kenosha County - Kenosha 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 Racine and Kenosha Counties 1879 - By Western Historical Co. Contains some biographical materials. -
Maps and Atlases
- Street Name Changes - Kenosha WI - Old to new and New to old street name changes for Kenosha. -
Military
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Newspapers in Kenosha County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
