Wisconsin Land and Property: Difference between revisions

[[United States Land and Property|U.S. Land and Property]]  [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] [[Image:{{Wisconsinlandpicture}}]]  

When the area that is now [[Wisconsin|Wisconsin]] became part of the United States, a few prior land claims by early pioneers were settled in the courts. Most of the land was unclaimed. This land became the public domain and was sold through land offices. The first general land office was established at Mineral Point in 1834.  

Commissioner of Public Lands,  

 

127 West Washington Avenue,  

 

Madison, WI 53703.  

Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States Office <br>7450 Boston Blvd.<br>Springfield, VA 22153<br>Telephone: 703-440-1523<br>Fax: 703-440-1599<br>Internet: http://www.es.blm.gov/aboutus/phonebook/whereweare.php  

National Archives—Reference Branch<br>Archives 1<br>7th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.<br>Washington DC 20408<br>Telephone: 202-501-5395<br>Fax 202-219-6273<br>Internet: http://www.archives.gov/  

The Family History Library has two different compact discs that contain indexes to the Wisconsin pre-1908 land entry case files at the Bureau of Land Management. You can search these discs by the name of the patentee and learn the township and range, the date, and the patent number. With this information you can send for copies of the original records from the National Archives—Reference Branch. Ask for form 84. The two discs are:  

After land was transferred to private ownership, all subsequent transactions, including deeds and mortgages, were recorded by the register of deeds. These records usually date back to the time of the county's organization and frequently have grantor (seller) and grantee (buyer) indexes. They are available at the county courthouse. Many of the county indexes and a few of the deeds are on microfilm at the Family History Library. For example, the library has copies of Milwaukee County mortgage records and indexes (1836-1916) on 103 microfilms and Dane County deeds (1883-1886) and indexes (1835-1915) on 87 films. Look for these county land records in the Family History Library Catalog under WISCONSIN, [COUNTY] - LAND AND PROPERTY.

 

''[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/Search/Rg/frameset_rg.asp?Dest=G1&Aid=&Gid=&Lid=&Sid=&Did=&Juris1=&Event=&Year=&Gloss=&Sub=&Tab=&Entry=&Guide=Wisconsin.ASP Wisconsin Research Outline].'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Intellectual Reserve Inc., Family History Department, 1998, 2001.