Portage County, Wisconsin, United States

Details for Portage County

Name

Portage County

Place Type

County

Located in

Wisconsin, United States

County Seat

Stevens Point

Coordinates

Latitude		44.4666363		44° 27' 59.9" N
Longitude		-89.5006728		89° 30' 02.4" W

Population

61,405

Elevation

332 m

Surrounding Counties

Shawano NE
Waupaca E
Waushara SE
Adams S
Wood W
Marathon NW

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1581109

Histopolis Place ID

538066261

Updated Apr 16, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Portage County

7 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=3041 (5 Sep 2009)

Cemetery - USGenWeb Portage County WI Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/portage/p-cem.htm (8 Dec 2009)

Portage County, Wisconsin WI, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Portage County, Wisconsin WI, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23152 (26 Nov 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Portage County, Wis. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 192,291 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/WI/PO.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

Cemeteries in or near Portage County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=23152&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (8 Jan 2008)

Portage County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_County,_Wisconsin (4 Aug 2010)

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Wisconsin > Portage County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Wisconsin > Portage County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/WI/Portage/ (12 Feb 2010)

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Surveys in Portage County

1 Survey, 5 Ranges, 22 Townships

The Fourth Principal Extended Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Portage County. You can navigate to any of the 22 survey townships that overlap Portage County using the navigation tool below.

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Towns, Cities and Villages of Portage County

17 Towns, 1 City, 8 Villages (Town is assumed unless noted)

Alban	Almond	Almond (village)	Amherst
Amherst (village)	Amherst Junction (village)	Belmont	Buena Vista
Carson	Dewey	Eau Pleine	Grant
Hull	Lanark	Linwood	Nelsonville (village)
New Hope	Park Ridge (village)	Pine Grove	Plover
Plover (village)	Rosholt (village)	Sharon	Stevens Point (city)
Stockton	Whiting (village)

Cities of Portage County

1 City, 10 Villages, 25 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alban	Almond (village)	Amherst (village)	Amherst Junction (village)
Arnott	Bancroft	Blaine	Casimir
Coddington	Custer	Ellis	Fancher
Garfield	Jordan	Junction City (village)	Keene
Lake Emily (historical u.p.)	Little Waupon	Meehan	Mill Creek Community
Milladore (village)	Nelsonville (village)	New Hope	North Star
Park Ridge (village)	Peru	Plover (village)	Polonia
Rocky Run	Rosholt (village)	Stevens Point (city)	Stockton
Torun	West Almond	West Bancroft	Whiting (village)

Cemeteries of Portage County

35 Cemeteries, 9 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Amherst	Badger	Bickel	Buena Vista
Dopp	East German	Elmwood	Forest
Guardian Angel (Almond Town)	Guardian Angel (Stevens Point)	Hillside	Kimball
Linwood Union	Lombard	Lone Pine	Lower Amherst
Lutheran	Maine	McDill	Morrill
Nelsonville	North Almond	Oak Grove	Pine Grove
Plover	Runkle	Saint Johns (Almond Town)	Saint Johns (Grant Town)
Saint Josephs	Saint Mary of Mount Carmel	Saint Mary of Mt. Carmel (*)	Saint Michael
Saint Peters	Saint Stephens	Spiritland	St. Johns (* Almond Town)
St. Johns (* Grant Town)	St. Josephs (*)	St. Mary of Mount Carmel (*)	St. Mary of Mt. Carmel (*)
St. Michael (*)	St. Peters (*)	St. Stephens (*)	Union

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