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Crawford County, Wisconsin

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
29historic places
—earliest paper
1818formed
16,113pop. 2020
49cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 29 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 5 are also National Historic Landmarks. Most listings are in or near Prairie du Chien, Petersburg, Lynxville.

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 Crawford titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 29 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

29 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Astor Fur Warehouse NHLPrairie du ChienBuilding1966
Blackhawk Avenue Historic DistrictPrairie du ChienDistrict2025
Brisbois, Michael, House NHLPrairie du ChienBuilding1966
Carved CavePetersburgSite1996
Cipra Wayside Mound GroupWauzekaSite2007
Commercial HotelPrairie du ChienBuilding2002
Crawford County CourthousePrairie du ChienBuilding1982
Crow Hollow SitePetersburgStructure2002
Dousman Hotel NHLPrairie du ChienBuilding1966
Fay, Benjamin F., and Wilhelmina HousePrairie du ChienBuilding2019
Foley Mound GroupLynxvilleSite1974
Folsom, W.H.C., HousePrairie du ChienBuilding1984
Fort Crawford Military Hospital NHLPrairie du ChienSite1966
Larsen CaveEastmanSite2002
Old Rock SchoolPrairie du ChienBuilding1983
Olson Mound GroupSenecaSite1974
Pedretti IIIPrairie du ChienSite1978
Powers, Strange, HousePrairie du ChienBuilding1979
Prairie Du Chien Post OfficePrairie du ChienBuilding2000
Prairie du Chien City HallPrairie du ChienBuilding2002
Reed, Alfred, Mound Group (47Cr311)Prairie du ChienSite1982
Rolette HousePrairie du ChienBuilding1972
St. Germain dit Gauthier HousePrairie du ChienBuilding2018
St. Mary's Academy and CollegePrairie du ChienBuilding2017
Tainter CaveClaytonSite2001
Unpleasant RidgeBoydtownSite1997
Vertefeuille, Francois, HousePrairie du ChienBuilding1993
Villa Louis NHLPrairie du ChienSite1966
Wall-Smethurst Mound GroupLynxvilleSite1974

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Crawford was formed in 1818 (1818-12-03) from Wisconsin.

CRAWFORD created by Michigan Territory from non-county area in present Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Crawford County population from 1820 to 2020 (Census historical series).

18k9,4104921820184018801920196020002020
182018401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
4921,5028,06815,64417,28616,77218,32817,65216,35116,55617,24316,113

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.
efmoPark unit26.2 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 49 of 49 listed
NameLatLon
Barnum Cemetery43.22263-90.83493
Bell Center Cemetery43.2851-90.82626
Boydtown Cemetery43.11202-90.79568
Bridgeport Cemetery43.01064-91.07027
Calvary Cemetery43.07075-91.14954
Campbell Cemetery43.20206-91.01631
Coleman - Whiteaker Cemetery43.2925-90.77474
Crow Creek Cemetery43.27441-90.81652
Dickson Cemetery43.25808-91.03708
Dutch Ridge Cemetery43.10251-91.01025
Eitsert Cemetery43.36031-90.96431
Evergreen Cemetery43.29664-90.94123
Evergreen Cemetery43.03338-91.12974
Ferryville Cemetery43.34149-91.07772
Forest Hill Cemetery43.39234-90.78244
Fort Crawford Cemetery Soldiers' Lot43.04716-91.14742
Freeman Cemetery43.39569-91.04282
French Town Cemetery43.07056-91.15138
Gays Mills Cemetery43.32416-90.83902
Gran Grae Cemetery43.05445-90.99949
Haney Ridge Cemetery43.23446-90.79088
Haney Valley Cemetery43.24654-90.86883
Hooverson Cemetery43.41136-90.83734
Lawrence Ridge Cemetery43.40804-91.17529
Montgomeryville Cemetery43.35694-90.74533
Mook Cemetery43.32794-90.74006
Mount Sterling Lutheran Cemetery43.31773-90.9254
National Cemetery43.16227-91.02041
North Clayton Cemetery43.3888-90.70848
Pioneer Cemetery43.31735-90.91697
Pioneer Wood Cook Reynolds Cemetery43.19692-90.79484
Pleasant Mound Cemetery43.16338-90.76354
Posey Cemetery43.18097-90.8292
Rush Creek Cemetery43.39909-91.09073
Saint Patrick Cemetery43.23969-90.69604
Saint Patricks Cemetery43.26021-90.96293
Saint Phillips Cemetery43.32798-90.71951
Saint Wenceslaus Catholic Church Cemetery43.15914-91.02349
Shanghai Ridge Cemetery43.16164-90.98984
South Kickapoo Cemetery43.41648-90.83719
Stuart Cemetery43.23153-90.97674
Sugar Grove Cemetery43.42233-90.67866
Towerville Cemetery43.40345-90.88781
Union Hill Cemetery43.25571-90.73117
Union Steele Green Cemetery43.19863-90.71659
Utica Lutheran Cemetery43.35063-90.93739
Wauzeka Cemetery43.0887-90.89365
Wayne Cemetery43.17009-90.70399
Yankeetown Cemetery43.37505-90.80146

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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