Rusk County, Wisconsin, United States

Details for Rusk County

Name

Rusk County

Place Type

County

Located in

Wisconsin, United States

County Seat

Ladysmith

Coordinates

Latitude		45.4666329		45° 27' 59.9" N
Longitude		-91.1668169		91° 10' 00.5" W

Population

15,079

Elevation

347 m

Surrounding Counties

Price E
Taylor SE
Chippewa S
Barron W
Washburn NW
Sawyer N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

1581114

Histopolis Place ID

114330759

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Rusk County

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

Rusk County, Wisconsin County Information - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Get all the local information you need on Rusk County, Wisconsin, WI - community history, demographics, local search and more at ePodunk
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23157 (20 Aug 2009)

USGenWeb Rusk County WI Table of Contents [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/rusk.htm (2 Feb 2010)

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=3046 (4 Sep 2009)

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

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > Wisconsin > Rusk County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > Wisconsin > Rusk County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/WI/Rusk/ (16 Jan 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Rusk County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=23157&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (8 Jan 2008)

The Political Graveyard: Rusk 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/RU.html#CEM (26 Mar 2009)

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Surveys in Rusk County

1 Survey, 8 Ranges, 28 Townships

The Fourth Principal Extended Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Rusk County. You can navigate to any of the 28 survey townships that overlap Rusk County using the navigation tool below.

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Towns, Cities and Villages of Rusk County

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

Atlanta	Big Bend	Big Falls	Bruce (village)
Cedar Rapids	Conrath (village)	Dewey	Flambeau
Glen Flora (village)	Grant	Grow	Hawkins
Hawkins (village)	Hubbard	Ingram (village)	Ladysmith (city)
Lawrence	Marshall	Murry	Richland
Rusk	Sheldon (village)	South Fork	Strickland
Stubbs	Thornapple	Tony (village)	True
Washington	Weyerhaeuser (village)	Wilkinson	Willard
Wilson

Cities of Rusk County

1 City, 8 Villages, 7 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Village is assumed unless noted)

Apollonia (u.p.)	Bruce	Conrath	Glen Flora
Hawkins	Imalone (u.p.)	Ingram	Island Lake (u.p.)
Ladysmith (city)	Murry (u.p.)	Port Arthur (u.p.)	Sheldon
Strickland (u.p.)	Thornapple (u.p.)	Tony	Weyerhaeuser

Cemeteries of Rusk County

25 Cemeteries, 4 Alternate Names (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Apollonia Catholic	Apollonia Protestant	Assumption	Blue Hills
Bruce Protestant	Glenview	Hillcrest	Holy Trinity
Ingram	Island Lake	Mud Lake	Old Ladysmith
Polish	Riverside	Saint Anns	Saint Francis
Saint Marys (Atlanta Town)	Saint Marys (South Fork Town)	Saints Peter and Paul	Servants of Mary
South Lawrence	St. Anns (*)	St. Francis (*)	St. Marys (* Atlanta Town)
St. Marys (* South Fork Town)	Swedish	Tony	Weyerhauser Protestant
Woodlawn

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