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Grant County, Wisconsin

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
40historic places
—earliest paper
1837formed
51,938pop. 2020
70cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 40 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1970. Most listings are in or near Platteville, Lancaster, Potosi.

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 Grant titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

24 of 40 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

40 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Agriculture and Manual Arts Building/Platteville State Normal SchoolPlattevilleBuilding1985
Arthur, L. J., HouseLancasterBuilding1985
Ballantine, James, HouseBloomingtonBuilding1976
Bass Site (47Gt25)LancasterSite1982
Bayley Avenue Historic DistrictPlattevilleDistrict2007
Beebe HousePlattevilleBuilding1979
Bode-Wad-Mi RockshelterCastle RockSite1995
Boscobel Grand Army of the Republic HallBoscobelBuilding2007
Boscobel High SchoolBoscobelBuilding1986
Central House HotelBoscobelBuilding1996
Coates, Leonard and Caroline, HousePlattevilleBuilding2021
Courthouse Square Historic DistrictLancasterDistrict2006
Davies, Edward and Mary, HousePlattevilleBuilding2023
Division Street Historic DistrictPlattevilleDistrict2007
Eagle Valley Mound DistrictGlen HavenDistrict2001
Evans, Jonathan H., HousePlattevilleBuilding1982
First Congregational ChurchPlattevilleBuilding1985
German Evangelical Lutheran Church of PeacePlattevilleBuilding2022
Grant County CourthouseLancasterBuilding1978
Hazel Green Town HallHazel GreenBuilding1989
Hog Hollow SitePotosiSite1996
Kinney, Patrick and Margaret, HouseLancasterBuilding2008
Kuehl, Paul, HousePlattevilleBuilding2026
Lancaster Municipal BuildingLancasterBuilding1983
Lancaster Post OfficeLancasterBuilding2000
Main Street Commercial Historic DistrictPlattevilleDistrict1990
Mitchell-Rountree HousePlattevilleBuilding1972
Parker, Dwight T., Public LibraryFennimoreBuilding1983
Platteville Army National Guard ArmoryPlattevilleBuilding2026
Potosi Badger Huts SitePotosiSite1996
Potosi BreweryPotosiBuilding1980
Rock School and Hanmer Robbins School ComplexPlattevilleBuilding2023
Rountree HallPlattevilleBuilding1974
Rountree, J. H., MansionPlattevilleBuilding1986
St. John MinePotosiSite1979
StonefieldCassvilleSite1970
Trinity Episcopal ChurchPlattevilleBuilding2023
West Main Street Historic DistrictPlattevilleDistrict2007
Wyalusing State Park Mounds Archeological DistrictBagleyDistrict1999
Young, John, HouseMuscodaBuilding1994

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Grant was formed in 1837 (1837-03-04) from Iowa.

GRANT created by Wisconsin Territory from IOWA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Grant County population from 1840 to 2020 (Census historical series).

52k28k3,9261840188019201930196020002020
18401860188019001920194019501960198020002020
3,92631,18937,85238,88139,04440,63941,46044,41951,73649,59751,938

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 70 of 70 listed
NameLatLon
Aupperle Cemetery42.81314-90.65968
Bagley Cemetery42.90158-91.09122
Beetown Cemetery42.7979-90.89324
Bethel Cemetery43.03969-90.66546
Bethlehem Cemetery43.01109-90.86833
Beulah Cemetery43.14167-90.60765
Blakes Prairie Cemetery42.87239-90.95091
Blue River Cemetery43.18933-90.57681
Boice Creek Cemetery42.76259-90.74082
Boice Prairie Cemetery42.76189-90.68117
Borah Cemetery42.96031-90.75995
Brechler Cemetery43.07552-90.73215
British Hollow Cemetery42.7044-90.68754
Buck Wheat Ridge Cemetery42.82003-90.57101
Burns Cemetery42.81432-90.88211
Calvary Cemetery42.72552-90.47122
Casler Cemetery42.9703-90.83399
Cassville Cemetery42.73279-90.97142
Charlotte Cemetery42.79351-91.03834
Crown Hill Cemetery43.03907-90.73485
Dodge Cemetery42.83603-90.91152
Ebenezer Cemetery42.95148-90.53651
Fairview Cemetery42.86378-90.5468
Flint Cemetery42.95265-91.07852
German Cemetery43.03152-90.62048
Gockel Cemetery42.82245-91.03806
Greenwood Cemetery42.73207-90.49214
Hampton Cemetery42.75123-90.72657
Harrison Cemetery42.72575-90.584
Hermitage Cemetery42.97195-90.8803
Hillside Cemetery42.72571-90.47228
Hillside Cemetery42.84148-90.694
Hurricane Cemetery42.77667-90.78088
Jamestown Cemetery42.5804-90.54705
Kaump Cemetery42.72609-90.56239
Kinney Cemetery42.76957-90.7625
Little Grant Union Cemetery42.89403-90.84867
McReynolds Cemetery42.82487-90.43716
Morrell Cemetery42.78239-90.76953
Mount Pleasant Cemetery42.59563-90.43172
Nip and Tuck Cemetery42.82827-90.4373
Oak Ridge Cemetery42.83855-90.56531
Osceola Cemetery42.66231-90.70423
Patch Grove Cemetery42.93817-90.97729
Piddington Cemetery42.65971-90.5619
Pipal Cemetery43.11872-90.4987
Pleasant Ridge Cemetery42.83104-90.81312
Prairie Cemetery42.98943-90.6754
Providence Cemetery42.86155-90.91202
Ramsey Cemetery42.78173-90.997
Rock Church Cemetery42.90334-90.46781
Rosendale Cemetery43.07552-90.80052
Saint Charles Cemetery42.71468-90.9763
Saint Clara Cemetery42.52369-90.54704
Saint Clements Cemetery42.8349-90.73798
Saint Dominic Cemetery42.52181-90.54138
Saint John Nepomuc Cemetery43.05723-90.50025
Saint Johns Cemetery42.94087-90.94217
Saint Joseph Cemetery42.53267-90.53347
Saint Lawrence O'Toole Catholic Church Cemetery43.00144-90.81633
Saint Marys Cemetery42.7538-90.96296
Saint Thomas Cemetery42.69552-90.71267
Scott Cemetery42.83699-91.03039
Sinnipee Cemetery42.57527-90.65696
Smelser Cemetery42.6327-90.47531
Sprauge Cemetery42.74082-90.87679
Switzer Cemetery43.00249-90.62615
Union Cemetery42.95331-90.95318
Van Buren Cemetery42.6812-90.72438
Whig Cemetery42.7611-90.55401

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

Historical markers

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