Clark County, Wisconsin

Street maps, historic prints and keepsakes for 9 Clark County towns.

The largest by population is Stanley (3,804).

About these towns

Curtiss: Curtiss was established as a rural railroad station in 1882 and is named after the chief engineer who built the railroad. The village of Curtiss was platted November 17, 1882, having been surveyed by Edwin Parks.

Greenwood: In the years just before settlement, the future site of Greenwood was a hunting ground shared by Ojibwe, Menominee and Ho-Chunk people.

Loyal: The city is located within the Town of Loyal, though it is politically independent.

Neillsville: The Ojibwe were the earliest known residents of the Neillsville area. The first settlers of European descent in the area were James O'Neill and his party, who arrived around 1845, looking for a location to build a sawmill along the Black River.

Owen: In 1893 the John S. Owen Company of Eau Claire managed to buy from J.D. Spaulding 400 square miles of virgin timber that ran from the current site of Owen north through Taylor County and into Rusk County.

Stanley: Stanley was settled and platted in 1881 when the Wisconsin Central Railroad built its line through Chippewa County. The settlement was named for Lemuel C.

Thorp: The forest around Thorp was Ojibwe (Chippewa) territory in the decades before white settlers arrived. In the 1837 Treaty of St. Peters, the Ojibwe ceded Thorp and much of northern Wisconsin to the U.S.

Withee: James S. Boardman was the first settler in Withee, arriving in 1870. George Richards and David R. Goodwin arrived shortly after. A post office named Winneoka was established there in 1874 at the farm of Bernard Brown, who also sold small supplies.

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Founding years, populations and town notes come from each town's Wikipedia and Wikidata entries. All Wisconsin towns.