Pierce County, Wisconsin Genealogy and History
Established: 1853
County Seat: Ellsworth
Parent: St. Croix 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
PIERCE.--Population 1,548 (1855)
pg. 93-94
A new County, lying on the Mississippi, at the mouth of the St. Croix. It has so far attracted but little attention. The country is represented to be good in some portions for agriculture. On the Eau Galle River, pine is cut, and a number of saw mills in operation. Pierce County is well watered, and has numerous mill sites yet unimproved. The land is mostly unsold. Some portions are not well watered. This County is in the Willow River land district, the office for which is not Hudson.
Prescott at the mouth of the St. Croix is a beautiful and thriving place, and we think will be the largest, not only in that County, but in the whole county between La Crosse and Lake Superior.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- USGenWeb Archives - Pierce County - US GenWebArchives -
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -
Vital Records
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1870
Deaths 1876
Marriages 1851
Pierce Register of Deeds
414 W. Main Street, P.O. Box 267
Ellsworth, WI 54011-0119
Telephone: (715) 273-3531
- 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. -
- St. Pauls United Church of Christ - Ellsworth, WI - Old church records, which date from 1867 to 1964. Includes Baptims, Confirmations, Marriages and Burials. -
Cemetery and Obituary Links
- Find-a-Grave Cemeteries for Pierce County - Listing of cemeteries and contributed burial information for Pierce County Cemeteries. -
- Saint Bridget Cemetery - River Falls - Headstone images and burials at Saint Bridget Cemetery at Billions Graves -
- Tombstone Photograph Pages Pierce County - Pierce County Wisconsin Cemetery pages with photos of select tombstones. -
- WIGenWeb Cemetery page for Pierce County - Cemetery inscriptions are courtesy of the St. Croix Valley Genealogical Society and contain all but the published cemetery listings of Pierce County. Some dead links on the page. -
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.
- Pierce County History 1800-1850 - 1800-1850 History of Pierce County published by the Pierce County Historical Association. -
- Pierce County History 1850-1900 - 1850-1900 History of Pierce County published by the Pierce County Historical Association. -
- Pierce County History pre-1800 - Pre-1800 History of Pierce County published by the Pierce County Historical Association. -
Maps and Atlases
- Pierce County Map - Pierce County Map published by the Pierce County Historical Association. -
Military
- WWI Draft Registrations – Pierce County - Includes some non-Pierce County registrations. Published by the St. Croix Historical Society -
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Newspapers in Pierce County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
