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Washburn County, Wisconsin

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1883formed

16,623pop. 2020

14cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Spooner, Minong.

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 Washburn titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bona, Bishop Stanislaus Vincent, Cabin	Minong	Building	2020
Polson, Mrs. Richard, House	Spooner	Building	1984
Siegner, George V., House	Spooner	Building	1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Washburn was formed in 1883 (1883-04-07) from Burnett.

WASHBURN created from BURNETT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,926	5,521	11,377	12,496	11,665	10,301	13,174	16,036	16,623

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
SACN	Park unit	43.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

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
Chicog Cemetery	46.03001	-91.96607
Clam River Cemetery	45.72578	-92.0263
Earl Cemetery	45.90752	-91.76275
Greenwood Cemetery	46.10678	-91.81009
Lakeside Cemetery	45.6554	-91.9951
Lampson Cemetery	45.99851	-91.83106
Northern Wisconsin Veterans Memorial Cemetery	45.78013	-91.82477
Rocky Ridge Cemetery	45.84425	-91.95831
Rosewood Cemetery	45.97153	-91.97382
Saint Lukes Cemetery	45.94348	-91.69037
Sarona Cemetery	45.7113	-91.82247
Shell Lake Cemetery	45.75426	-91.90965
Spooner Cemetery	45.8225	-91.90515
Woodlawn Cemetery	45.6449	-91.55229

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Harmon	46.06772	-91.66824

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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