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Langlade County, Wisconsin

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6historic places

—earliest paper

1879formed

19,491pop. 2020

21cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1977. Most listings are in or near Antigo, Town of Elcho.

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 Langlade titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

5 of 6 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Antigo Depot	Antigo	Building	1992
Antigo Opera House	Antigo	Building	1984
Antigo Post Office	Antigo	Building	2000
Antigo Public Library and Deleglise Cabin	Antigo	Building	1978
Langlade County Courthouse	Antigo	Building	1977
Modern Woodmen of America Lodge	Town of Elcho	Building	2024

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Langlade was formed in 1879 (1879-03-03) from Oconto.

NEW (now LANGLADE) created from OCONTO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Langlade County population from 1880 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
685	12,553	21,471	23,227	21,975	19,916	19,978	20,740	19,491

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

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

Cemeteries — 21 of 21 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antigo Cemetery	45.13746	-89.139
Bent Cemetery	45.21726	-89.00929
Bohemian Cemetery	45.12949	-89.17792
Brown Cemetery	45.19734	-88.83886
Elmhurst Cemetery	45.05877	-89.17441
Elmwood Cemetery	45.12481	-89.13414
Evergreen Cemetery	45.2819	-88.99205
Forest View Cemetery	45.23399	-89.39012
Gleason Cemetery	45.34402	-89.36306
Hall Pioneer Cemetery	45.08696	-89.15162
Lakeside Cemetery	45.37235	-89.19937
Lily Cemetery	45.29895	-88.83963
Norwood Cemetery	45.06534	-89.04343
Parrish Cemetery	45.41552	-89.40703
Pearson Cemetery	45.37086	-88.97717
Peck Cemetery	45.24935	-89.28317
Queen of Peace Cemetery	45.13765	-89.13675
Saint James Cemetery	45.1533	-88.76593
Saint James Cemetery	45.16822	-88.87218
Sherry Cemetery	45.18616	-88.92725
Star Neva Cemetery	45.24212	-89.10742

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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