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Marquette County, Wisconsin

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7historic places

—earliest paper

1836formed

15,592pop. 2020

24cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 7 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Montello, Briggsville, Crystal Lake.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 7 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

7 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bonnie Oaks Historic District	Briggsville	District	1986
Fountain Lake Farm NHL	Montello	Site	1990
Marquette County Courthouse and Marquette County Sheriff's Office and Jail	Montello	Building	1982
Montello Commercial Historic District	Montello	District	1996
Richter, Charles Samuel, House	Montello	Building	1996
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church	Crystal Lake	Building	2025
Vaughn's Hall and Blacksmith Shop	Montello	Building	2007

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Marquette was formed in 1836 (1836-12-07) from Brown.

MARQUETTE created by Wisconsin Territory from BROWN. MARQUETTE overlapped the western part of FOND DU LAC, creating a dispute not settled until 6 Mar 1848.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
18	8,233	8,908	10,509	10,443	9,097	8,839	8,516	11,672	15,832	15,592

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

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

Cemeteries — 24 of 24 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
East Cemetery	43.8901	-89.48121
Eastside Cemetery	43.79683	-89.30649
Emmanuel Evangelical Crystal Lake Cemetery	43.92747	-89.31178
Germania Cemetery	43.89205	-89.24711
Germania Lutheran Cemetery	43.8895	-89.23857
Greenwood Presbyterian Cemetery	43.70823	-89.26501
Kelly Cemetery	43.77423	-89.53361
Krentz Cemetery	43.91554	-89.47712
Matz Tagatz Cemetery	43.90836	-89.30581
Neshkoro Village Cemetery	43.96769	-89.21932
Newton Cemetery	43.95266	-89.44614
Oak Hill Cemetery	43.79593	-89.44595
Oak Hill Cemetery	43.84773	-89.56248
Oak Lawn Cemetery	43.72254	-89.35121
Oxford Township Cemetery	43.75976	-89.50897
Pleasant View Cemetery	43.92354	-89.56301
Riverside Cemetery	43.88502	-89.54965
Rood Cemetery	43.65076	-89.40463
Saint John the Baptist Cemetery	43.80951	-89.31637
Saint Johns Lutheran Cemetery	43.92002	-89.31307
Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery	43.96691	-89.36595
Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery	43.93431	-89.39479
Sheldon Cemetery	43.83959	-89.46957
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery	43.96745	-89.21802

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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