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Oneida County, Wisconsin

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26historic places

—earliest paper

1887formed

37,845pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 26 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1973. Most listings are in or near Three Lakes, Minocqua, Rhinelander.

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 Oneida titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 26 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

26 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boesel, Ella M., Boathouse	Minocqua	Building	1997
First National Bank	Rhinelander	Building	1973
Fishers Island	Minocqua	Site	1994
Hagge, Hans J., Boathouse	Hazelhurst	Building	2005
Indianapolis Outing Club	Three Lakes	Building	2004
Jollywood	Three Lakes	Building	2003
Lake Tomahawk Site	Lake Tomahawk	Site	1996
Little St. Germain Creek Site	Newbold	Site	1993
Mayer, George P., Boathouse	Town of Three Lakes	Building	2011
McCord Village	Lynne	Site	2001
McCord Village (Boundary Increase)	Lynne	Site	2005
Mecikalski General Store, Saloon, and Boardinghouse	Jennings	Building	1984
Miller, Marshall D., Boathouse	Three Lakes	Building	2008
Oneida County Courthouse	Rhinelander	Building	1981
Orth, Phillip, Boathouse	Minocqua	Building	2005
Pelican Lake Hotel	Schoepke	Building	2013
Reay Boathouse	Three Lakes	Building	2004
Sutliff, Solon and Mathilda, House	Rhinelander	Building	2009
Texaco Service Station	Minocqua	Building	2023
Three Lakes Rod and Gun Club	Three Lakes	District	2013
Tom 2 Site	Lake Tomahawk	Site	1994
Tomahawk Lake Camp Historic District	Lake Tomahawk	District	1992
Trunck, Joseph and Augusta, Boathouse	Three Lakes	Building	2008
Walter, Luther and Anna, Boathouse	Minocqua	Building	2005
West Side School	Rhinelander	Building	2009
Yawkey, William H., Boathouse	Hazelhurst	Building	2009

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Oneida was formed in 1887 (1887-01-01) from Lincoln.

ONEIDA created from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Oneida County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,010	8,875	13,996	18,938	20,648	22,112	31,216	36,776	37,845

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

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

Cemeteries — 14 of 14 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Enterprise Cemetery	45.48948	-89.23205
Evergreen Cemetery	45.89167	-89.69888
Forest Garden Cemetery	45.89744	-89.6753
Forest Home Cemetery	45.5023	-89.09264
Forest Home Cemetery	45.63024	-89.39969
Lakeside Cemetery	45.80419	-89.73214
Newbold Memorial Cemetery	45.75689	-89.50847
Northland Memorial Park	45.64064	-89.33458
Prairie Rapids Cemetery	45.58562	-89.75169
Saint Marys Cemetery	45.50868	-89.07057
Union Grove Cemetery	45.68644	-89.67727
Wilderness Rest Cemetery	45.7823	-89.57436
Wolfgram Cemetery	45.50953	-89.07146
Woodboro Cemetery	45.59912	-89.56568

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Manson	45.56663	-89.66153

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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