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Vilas County, Wisconsin

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19historic places

—earliest paper

1893formed

23,047pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 19 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Eagle River, Phelps, Lac du Flambeau.

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 Vilas titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 19 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

19 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Anvil Lake Campground Shelter	Eagle River	Building	1996
Archeological Site No. 47VI197	St. Germain	Site	1994
Big Sand Lake Club	Phelps	Building	2005
Eagle River Downtown Historic District	Eagle River	District	2025
Eagle River Stadium	Eagle River	Building	1994
Everett Resort, The	Washington	Building	2008
Fort Eagle	Phelps	Building	1998
Government Boarding School at Lac du Flambeau	Lac du Flambeau	District	2005
Hultin, Nicolaus H., House	Lac du Flambeau	Building	1997
Jabodon	Washington	Building	2009
Mayo School	Eagle River	Building	1994
Peacock Inn	St. Germain	Building	2017
Region Nine Training School	Eagle River	District	1996
St. Peter's Catholic School	Eagle River	Building	2018
Stone, Ben and Margaret, Boathouse	Plum Lake	Building	2008
Strawberry Island Site	Lac du Flambeau	Site	1978
Sunset Point	Eagle River	Building	1993
Voss' Birchwood Lodge	Manitowish Waters	District	2018
Wallila Farm	Phelps	Site	1992

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Vilas was formed in 1893 (1893-04-15) from Oneida.

VILAS created from ONEIDA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Vilas County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,929	5,649	8,894	9,363	9,332	16,535	21,033	23,047

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

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Hildegard Cemetery	46.05108	-89.21119
Land O Lakes Cemetery	46.15662	-89.25687
Oak Hill Cemetery	46.15448	-89.25541
Pines Cemetery	46.11105	-89.6682
Presque Isle Cemetery	46.2436	-89.76258
Saint Germain Cemetery	45.91368	-89.49228
Winchester Memorial Cemetery	46.24523	-89.83554

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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