Wisconsin Real Property Listers Association

About the Office: Right now the position of Real Property Lister/Deputy Treasurer is located in the County Treasurer's Office. There are plans for the position to be transferred to the Planning Department sometime in the future. In addition to the Treasurer and myself, there is also a part-time Tax/Real Property Clerk and a call-in position as needed. This year 16 of the 17 municipalities that comprise Calumet County electronically transferred the assessment data to our office. We also just completed the digital parcel maps for the County late last year. All information about parcels and the parcel mapping is available free of charge on the county website. The Register of Deeds office has had an electronic tract index since 1991 and an electronic grantee/grantor index since 1994. All deeds, Certified Survey Maps, plats, subdivisions and cemetery plats have been imaged and are available on-line in the ROD office and internally to all other land-related offices. The images are not available on the county website. In 2004, Calumet County had 2523 recorded property conveyances (handled by the RPL office), 122 Certified Survey Maps with 198 lots, 11 plats/condos with 159 lots, 7 outlots and 14 condo units. There were four annexation recordings involving 122.072 acres. The Cities of Appleton and Menasha do their own listing. Not including those cities there were a total of 687 split parcels in 2004 which included some of the plats and CSM's. Next year I hope to be more paperless and have daily/weekly reports of recordings rather than a photocopy of the actual deeds, etc. We will us the imaging system and the Real Estate Transfer Return for the needed information. The 2004 parcel counts/splits/recordings were down because of a moratorium in some of the sanitary districts in the Fox Cities portion of the County. We have already surpassed those numbers for 2005.

About the City/ County: Calumet County is located on the east side of Lake Winnebago and has the Niagara Escarpment going through most of the County, but especially along Lake Winnebago. We have three county parks and one state park, numerous ares of DNR wetland and hunting lands, two federal harbors, with a mostly rural economic base except for the northwestern portion adjacent to the the Fox Cities area which is mostly residential and recreational. There are nine towns, four villages and six cities. Chilton is the county seat which is centrally located approximately 30 miles each from Sheboygan, Fond du Lac, Green Bay, Manitowoc and Appleton. We are ideally located, so that residents can still enjoy a small town atmosphere, but yet be close enough to all of the cultural and economic opportunities afforded in those larger communities. At its inception Calumet County included two Indian Reservations, comprised of the Brothertown and Menominee Indians and then later the Stockbridge-Munsee transplanted from Upper New York State. The county was originally call "Chalumet" from the Menominee language which means 'peace' and signifies the Indian Pipe of Peace. The County slogan, adopted almost a century ago is "We Extend the Calumet to All Mankind". In 1839 Congress granted citizenship to the Brothertown Indians and in 1843 the Stockbridge Indians were granted the same recognition. Traces of the early pre-historic Menominee mounds can still be found in the county, several located at the Calumet County Park in Stockbridge. In 1848 the reservations were turned over the Federal Government and the land was sold and patented as lots into a regular civil town and are still described as such. There are no sections within these two towns. The Village of Stockbridge is known as the Sturgeon capital of the world. Summer fishing and winter ice-fishing during the winter is very a popular sport, but especially sturgeon spearing is huge drawing in the latter part of February of the year. The Calumet County Park in Stock