Home › Wisconsin › Menominee County

Menominee County, Wisconsin

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1961formed

4,255pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 2000. Most listings are in or near Menominee Reservation.

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 Menominee titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Saint Joseph of the Lake Church and Cemetery	Menominee Reservation	Site	2000

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Menominee was formed in 1961 (1961-05-01) from Oconto, Shawano.

MENOMINEE created from OCONTO and SHAWANO.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Menominee County population from 1970 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1970	1980	2000	2020
2,607	3,373	4,562	4,255

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

4 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Rest Haven Cemetery	44.90442	-88.60002
Saint Anthony Cemetery	44.98013	-88.85047
Saint Michael Cemetery	44.88819	-88.61547
West Branch Cemetery	44.95921	-88.67165

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Perote	45.09108	-88.81288

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

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Menominee County, Wisconsin

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.