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Ashland County, Wisconsin

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
44historic places
—earliest paper
1860formed
16,027pop. 2020
15cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 44 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Ashland, La Pointe, Bayfield.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Wisconsin is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Ashland titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

21 of 44 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

44 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
ANTELOPE (schooner-barge) ShipwreckLa PointeSite2018
Apostle Islands LighthousesBayfieldBuilding1977
Ashland County CourthouseAshlandBuilding1982
Ashland Harbor Breakwater LightAshlandStructure2007
BIG BAY SLOOP shipwreck (sloop)La PointeSite2009
Bass Island Brownstone Company QuarryLa PointeSite1978
Bass Island Brownstone Company Quarry (Boundary Increase)LaPointeSite2016
Beaser SchoolAshlandBuilding1980
Chapple and MacArthur Avenues Residential Historic DistrictAshlandDistrict2014
Coole Park ManorLaPointeBuilding2005
Copper Falls State ParkMorseSite2005
Ellis SchoolAshlandBuilding1980
Fifield Place Historic DistrictAshlandDistrict2023
Glidden State BankJacobsBuilding2006
Hadland Fishing CampLa PointeBuilding1977
LUCERNE (Shipwreck)La PointeSite1991
La Pointe Indian CemeteryLa PointeSite1977
La Pointe Light StationBayfieldBuilding1983
MARQUETTE (shipwreck)La PointeSite2008
MOONLIGHT shipwreckLa PointeSite2008
Manitou CampApostle Islands National LakeshoreBuilding1983
Marina SiteLa PointeSite1978
Marion Park PavilionGliddenBuilding1981
Mellen City HallAshlandBuilding1979
Memorial HallAshlandBuilding1995
Morty Site (47AS40)BayfieldSite1988
NOQUEBAY (Schooner-Barge) Shipwreck SiteLa PointeSite1992
Old Ashland Post OfficeAshlandBuilding1974
P-Flat Site (47AS47)BayfieldSite1988
PRETORIA (schooner-barge) Shipwreck Site (Additional Documentation)BayfieldSite1994
PRETORIA (schooner-barge) Shipwreck Site (Boundary Increase)BayfieldSite2025
R. G. STEWART (Shipwreck)La PointeSite1991
Rocky Island Historic DistrictLa PointeDistrict2008
Security Savings BankAshlandBuilding1974
Soo Line DepotAshlandBuilding1988
T. H. Camp (shipwreck)La PointeSite2004
Trout Point Logging CampBayfieldSite1988
Union DepotAshlandBuilding1979
Wakefield HallAshlandBuilding1995
West Second Street Historic DistrictAshlandDistrict1984
Wheeler Hall, Northland CollegeAshlandBuilding1977
Wilmarth SchoolAshlandBuilding1980
Wilmarth, Lewis C. and Caroline, HouseAshlandBuilding2013
Winston-Cadotte SiteLa PointeSite2005

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Ashland was formed in 1860 (1860-06-05) from La Pointe.

ASHLAND created from LA POINTE (now BAYFIELD).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Ashland County population from 1860 to 2020 (Census historical series).

25k12k2211860188019201940196020002020
1860188019001920194019501960198020002020
5151,55920,17624,53821,80119,46117,37516,78316,86616,027

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

SiteTypeDist.
apisPark unit43.7 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

15 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 15 of 15 listed
NameLatLon
B' Nai Israel Cemetery46.56004-90.91185
Cayuga Union Cemetery46.25214-90.68083
Clam Lake Cemetery46.16634-90.90576
Greenwood Cemetery46.7778-90.73226
La Pointe Indian Cemetery46.77218-90.78227
Maple Grove Cemetery46.38537-90.85981
Morse Cemetery46.22551-90.63865
Mount Hope Cemetery46.56216-90.90407
Mount Hope Cemetery46.14355-90.57175
Odanah Cemetery46.59965-90.72105
Saint Agnes Cemetery46.56132-90.90768
Saint Cecelia Cemetery46.01714-90.50352
Saint John's Lutheran Cemetery46.39241-90.56914
Saint Joseph Cemetery46.78273-90.78738
Union Cemetery46.02328-90.49277

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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