Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Rusk County, Wisconsin.

Official Website

Founded in 1901, Rusk County was originally named Gates County after Milwaukee land speculator James L. Gates. It was renamed Rusk County in 1905 after Jeremiah M. Rusk, governor of Wisconsin and the first U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. It was formed out of the northern portion of Chippewa County.

Adjacent Counties

• Washburn County
• Sawyer County
• Price County
• Taylor County
• Chippewa County
• Barron County

Cities, Towns, and Communities

Apollonia | Atlanta | Bear Lake | Big Bend | Big Falls| Bruce | Cedar Rapids | Conrath | Crane | Dewey | Egypt | Flambeau | Glen Flora | Grant | Grow | Hawkins | Horseman (Varner) | Hubbard | Imalone | Ingram | Island Lake | Jerome | Kalish | Ladysmith (County Seat) | Lawrence | Mandowish |Marshall | Murry | Poplar/Beldonville | Port Arthur | Pre Bram | Richland | Rusk | Shaws Farm | Sheldon | South Fork | Strickland | Stubbs | Teresita | Thornapple | Tibbets |Tony | True | Vallee View/Walrath | Washington | West Ingram | Weyerhaeuser | Wilkinson | Willard | Wilson | Wilson Center/Dogville (Starez)

Cemeteries

Cemeteries of Wisconsin

Links

Wikipedia

National Register of Historic Places

Genealogy Trails

Roots Web

Rusk County Historical Society Museum

RAOGK

Forebears.io