Wisconsin Counties and Towns
Pierce County Genealogy and History
Pierce County Genealogy Links WI Roots: Wisconsin Counties : Pierce
Established: 1853
County Seat: Ellsworth
Parent: St. Croix County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
 Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1870
Deaths 1876
Marriages 1851

Pierce Register of Deeds
414 W. Main Street, P.O. Box 267
Ellsworth, WI 54011-0119
Telephone: (715) 273-3531


PIERCE.--Population 1,548.
From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855
pg. 93-94

A new County, lying on the Mississippi, at the mouth of the St. Croix. It has so far attracted but little attention. The country is represented to be good in some portions for agriculture. On the Eau Galle River, pine is cut, and a number of saw mills in operation. Pierce County is well watered, and has numerous mill sites yet unimproved. The land is mostly unsold. Some portions are not well watered. This County is in the Willow River land district, the office for which is not Hudson.

Prescott at the mouth of the St. Croix is a beautiful and thriving place, and we think will be the largest, not only in that County, but in the whole county between La Crosse and Lake Superior.


Links and Resources:

St. Paul's United Church of Christ - Ellsworth Township, Pierce County Vital Statistics including Baptisms 1867-1890, Confirmations 1871-1888, marriages 1868-1889, Funerals 1868-1889, Baptisms 1890-1903, Confirmations 1874, 1891-1916, Marriages 1890-1964, Funerals 1890-1964.

Wisconsin Biographies Project-Pierce County-Offsite link with an extensive list of biographies online.

Cemeteries & Deaths

Maps
1901 County Maps - The Wisconsin county maps presented here were scanned in individually from the large Wisconsin map in the Rand McNally New Standard Atlas of the World, Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago, 1901. They should be of interest to genealogists because they show the locations of many places that no longer exist. Offsite link by Rick Hagen

Current County Map, The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is pleased to provide highly detailed county maps online. Produced at a 1:100,000 scale the maps contain the following pieces of information: Major local road networks, Interstate corridors, U.S., state, and county routes, Recreation areas, Points of interest, Hospitals, Schools, Airports, Urban boundaries, Railroads, Town roads, Federal and state forest boundaries, Indian reservations, Township boundaries.

See also:
American History and Genealogy Project

American Local History Network

theBubbler.com - Wisconsin's Information Source