Wisconsin Counties and Towns
Calumet County Genealogy and History
Calumet County Genealogy Links WI Roots: Wisconsin Counties : Calumet
Established: 1836
County Seat: Chilton
Parent: Territorial County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
 Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1858
Deaths 1856
Marriages 1850

Calumet Register of Deeds
206 Court St.
Chilton, WI 53014-1127
Telephone: (920) 849-1441



CALUMET.--Population 3,633.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
pg. 51-52

Lies on the cast shore of Lake Winnebago, and is yet but slightly settled compared with its surrounding neighbors. It is covered with a heavy growth of hard timber, and contains what was for a long time the Stockbridge Indian Reservation. These two causes, kept the settlers from this county until Winnebago, on the west side of the Lake, with the attractions of timber, openings and prairies had so far out-stripped Calumet in population that there is little prospect of its reaching that degree of prosperity which its neighbors have acquired. There are still the remains of the Stockbridge and Brothertown Indians in the County occupying their well tilled farms. The County is well watered, and contains much excellent land yet unoccupied.

Within a few months Calumet has advanced more rapidly in population, than at any previous period. In 1850 the population, including about 300 Indians, was 1740, in 1855 exclusive of the same, it was 3,531.

Chilton Centre, a flourishing village is the County Seat.

This County is wholly in the Green Bay land district, and entries must be made at the land offices at Menasha.


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Genealogy Links

  • Calumet County Genealogy-Offsite link by my friend Debie. A wonderful source for Calumet County births, deaths, marriages, etc

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Census

 

Cemeteries & Deaths

 

Area History

 

Maps

  • Original Field Notes and Plat Maps From Wisconsin Public Land Survey Records. his website provides access to scanned images of the original General Land Office survey field notes and plat maps. All of this material is based on the township, range and section descriptions of the Public Land Survey System (PLSS). To effectively use this material, you will need to know this description for the property you are researching. This legal description can be derived from topographic maps, land ownership maps, deeds and or property tax bills among other sources. Offsite link

  • 1901 County Maps - The Wisconsin county maps presented here were scanned in individually from the large Wisconsin map in the Rand McNally New Standard Atlas of the World, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1901. They should be of interest to genealogists because they show the locations of many places that no longer exist. Offsite link by Rick Hagen

  • Current County Map, The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. Produced at a 1:100,000 scale the maps contain the following pieces of information: Major local road networks, Interstate corridors, U.S., state, and county routes, Recreation areas, Points of interest, Hospitals, Schools, Airports, Urban boundaries, Railroads, Town roads, Federal and state forest boundaries, Indian reservations, Township boundaries.

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