Marquette County, Wisconsin

Founding: 1848 (declared in 1836)
Parent county: Brown
Namesake: Jacques Marquette, French missionary
Seat: Marquette (1848–1858); Montello (1858–)
Land area: 456 square miles
Population (2020): 15,592
Population (historic): 8,641 (1850); 8,056 (1870); 8,908 (1890); 10,741 (1910); 9,388 (1930)
Periods of population growth: 1840s; 1870–1910; 1960–2000; 2010s
Subdivisions: One city; four villages; one CDP; 14 towns
National Register listings: Six
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,790 (17.9%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 66.5%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 6.2%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 11.5%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,333
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,424

Average farmhouse size (1940): 7.3 rooms

Number of farms (1920): 1,432
Average farm size (1920): 93.4 acres
Sources of settlement: Germany, New York, and Ireland
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Montello

 
Namesake: Unknown
Founding: 1849 (founding); 1850 (post office); 1868 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 1,448
Population (historic): 394 (1880); 1,104 (1910); 1,245 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1880–1930; 1960–2010
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 248 (28.7%)
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Outstanding Buildings

1. *John McReath Farm (c. 1875). 1940 Road F. Buffalo. Italianate.
2. *Christoph Zuelke Farm (c. 1860). 8529 11th Road. Newton.
3. *John Johnson House (c. 1875). 7880 Road D. Oxford. Italianate. Razed.