Sources and full credits
Who Settled Dodge County? — map by Carl Reinemann, One Shot at History
Birthplace data, 1850–1880
- IPUMS USA full-count census data, 1850, 1870 and 1880. Every person enumerated in Dodge County, with birthplace and (1880) father's birthplace.
Steven Ruggles, Catherine A. Fitch, Ronald Goeken, J. David Hacker, Matt A. Nelson, Evan Roberts, Megan Schouweiler, and Matthew Sobek. IPUMS Ancestry Full Count Database. Minneapolis, MN: IPUMS. usa.ipums.org
- The Census Place Project, which assigns each census record to the town where the person lived.
Enrico Berkes, Ezra Karger, and Peter Nencka. “The Census Place Project: A Method for Geolocating Unstructured Place Names.” Explorations in Economic History (2023). Data: openICPSR project 179401.
Only town totals are shown on this map. No individual census records are published here, in keeping with the IPUMS terms of use. Percentages are computed from those totals by One Shot at History.
Population, 1890–1910
- U.S. Bureau of the Census. Thirteenth Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1910, Volume III: Population, Reports by States, Nebraska–Wyoming, Table 1, “Population of Minor Civil Divisions: 1910, 1900, and 1890,” Wisconsin, p. 1057.
Original land patents
- U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records — federal land patents for Dodge County to 1868, mapped to the 40-acre parcels of the original survey. Each parcel links to its record at glorecords.blm.gov.
Treaty lands, 1832 and 1833
- Treaty with the Winnebago, September 15, 1832 (Treaty of Fort Armstrong), 7 Stat. 370. Article I sets the boundary “up Rock river to its source.” Treaty text.
- Treaty with the Chippewa, Ottawa and Potawatomi, September 26, 1833 (Treaty of Chicago).
- Charles C. Royce, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (18th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1899), areas 174 and 187, digitized by the USDA Forest Service (“Indian Land Cessions in the United States” map service). Used for the line north of Horicon Marsh.
- Rock River — main channel from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), through Horicon Marsh to the south county line.
The treaty line is drawn along the Rock River itself, as the 1832 treaty describes. Corrections and suggestions from the Ho-Chunk Nation, the Forest County Potawatomi Community and other nations are welcome.
Town boundaries
- U.S. Census Bureau, TIGER/Line Shapefiles, 2024: County Subdivisions, Wisconsin. Today's town, city and village boundaries, combined where needed to match the 19th-century census towns.
Historic maps
- 1830s–40s Original Land Survey Plats — U.S. General Land Office township plats; tiles prepared by One Shot at History.
- 1840 Map of Wiskonsin Territory, compiled from the public surveys — georeferenced through Allmaps.
- 1873 Plat Atlas and 1890 Plat Atlas of Dodge County — tiles prepared by One Shot at History.
- 1878 Map of Dodge County, State of Wisconsin — georeferenced through Allmaps.
Base maps and software
- Light Gray Canvas — Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- USGS Topo — U.S. Geological Survey, The National Map.
- Built with Leaflet; data prepared in QGIS.
Questions and corrections
Know a family, church or settlement story behind these numbers, or spot an error? Write to oneshotathistory@gmail.com.