Sheboygan County
Established: 1836
County Seat: Sheboygan
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
SHEBOYGAN--Population 20,391 (1855)
pg. 101
Lies on Lake Michigan, 50 miles north of Milwaukee. It is heavily timbered with oak, maple, ash, hickory and pine. The soil is light, inclining in some parts to sand, but is productive, and raises wheat of the best quality. Sheboygan wheat bears a higher price than that raised farther south. The population is American, German and Dutch. The Nieusbode, the only Dutch paper, with but one exception, published in the United States, is printed here. A plank road extends from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac. There is but little public land in market. It is in the Menasha land district, expect the southern tier of towns, which is in the Milwaukee.
Sheboygan, the principal place, is on the Lake Shore, and is the principal port of shipment for a large back country. For its exports and imports see the appropriate article.
General Genealogy and History Links
This section contains links to websites that have multiple databases or webpages with genealogical information.
- USGenWeb Archives - Sheboygan County - US GenWebArchives -
- WIGenWeb - Genealogy and History Information Part of the WIGenWeb -
Vital Records
Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1852
Deaths 1854
Marriages 1852
Sheboygan County Register of Deeds
(Darlene Navis Register of Deeds)
Administration Building
P. O. Box 416
508 New York Avenue
Sheboygan, WI 53081-4126
Telephone: (920) 459-3872
- 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 Sheboygan County - Sheboygan 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 Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, Past and Present, 1912 - Online digital book Volume 1. 1912 -
Maps and Atlases
Military
Societies, Libraries and Offline Resources
- Newspapers in Sheboygan County - List of county newspaper publications listed at the Library of Congress -
