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Price County, Wisconsin

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
13historic places
—earliest paper
1879formed
14,054pop. 2020
17cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Fifield, Park Falls, Phillips.

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 Price titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Deadman SloughFlambeauSite1993
Fifield Fire Lookout TowerFifieldStructure2007
Fifield Town HallFifieldBuilding1978
Flambeau Paper Company Office BuildingPark FallsBuilding1985
Johnson, Albin, Log HouseOgemaBuilding1978
Johnson, Matt, Log HouseBrantwoodBuilding1978
Lidice MemorialPhillipsObject2006
Park Falls Post OfficePark FallsBuilding2000
Phillips High SchoolPhillipsBuilding1995
Prentice Boy Scout CabinPrenticeBuilding2017
Prentice Co-operative Creamery CompanyPrenticeBuilding1985
Round Lake Logging DamFifieldStructure1981
Wisconsin Concrete ParkWorcesterSite2005

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Price was formed in 1879 (1879-03-03) from Chippewa, Lincoln.

PRICE created from CHIPPEWA and LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

19k9,651785188019201950196020002020
188019001920194019501960198020002020
7859,10618,51718,46716,34414,37015,78815,82214,054

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

17 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 17 of 17 listed
NameLatLon
Catawba Cemetery45.52988-90.53956
Clifford Finlander Cemetery45.55352-90.05853
Emery Cemetery45.66315-90.18692
Forest Home Cemetery45.88166-90.40963
Garden of Memory Cemetery45.42475-90.18556
Hackett Cemetery45.60664-90.29157
Harmony Cemetery45.60912-90.50681
Hillcrest Cemetery45.45477-90.08746
Hillside Cemetery45.44487-90.3077
Kennan Cemetery45.53693-90.59325
Knox Cemetery45.50655-90.10312
Lakeside Cemetery45.69563-90.39782
Levitt Creek Cemetery45.39142-90.25912
Nola Cemetery45.92119-90.43865
Prentice Cemetery45.53735-90.27243
Saint Marys Cemetery45.5394-90.11619
Saint Patrick Cemetery45.69178-90.42531
Historical populated places — 2 of 2
NameLatLon
Coolidge45.81162-90.40793
Kaiser45.90968-90.55155

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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