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Lincoln County, Wisconsin

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

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6historic places

—earliest paper

1875formed

28,415pop. 2020

19cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 6 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Merrill.

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 Lincoln titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

6 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Center Avenue Historic District	Merrill	District	1994
First Street Bridge	Merrill	Structure	1996
Lincoln County Courthouse	Merrill	Building	1978
Merrill City Hall	Merrill	Building	1978
Merrill Post Office	Merrill	Building	2000
Scott, T. B., Free Library	Merrill	Building	1974

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Lincoln was formed in 1875 (1875-01-01) from Marathon.

LINCOLN created from MARATHON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,011	16,269	21,084	22,536	22,235	22,338	26,555	29,641	28,415

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

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

Cemeteries — 19 of 19 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Calvary Cemetery	45.45643	-89.72359
Calvary Lutheran Cemetery	45.15639	-89.5746
Estonian Cemetery	45.29058	-89.47681
Gleason Cemetery	45.31803	-89.47909
Greenwood Cemetery	45.50746	-89.72513
Latvian Cemetery	45.27781	-89.46674
Luther Memorial Cemetery	45.32247	-89.50739
Merrill Memorial Park Cemetery	45.18334	-89.665
Methodist Cemetery	45.12762	-89.8577
Oak Hill Cemetery	45.40644	-89.64011
Saint James Cemetery	45.16734	-89.61092
Saint John Baptist Catholic Cemetery	45.27846	-89.50745
Saint John Cemetery	45.12766	-89.71345
Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery	45.1564	-89.58082
Snow Hill Cemetery	45.16378	-89.76996
Somo Cemetery	45.55477	-90.01321
Springbrook Cemetery	45.17708	-89.50481
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery	45.23894	-89.54858
Woodlawn Cemetery	45.34562	-89.73126

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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