Wisconsin Real Property Listers Association

About the Office: The Property Lister’s Office is an independent office and has its own line item budget. There is one full-time person that assists with the duties of the Lister’s Office. We receive approximately 1,300 transfers per year and have around 125-175 splits. Crawford County is a rural county consisting of 11 townships, 10 villages and 1 city. Duties of this office include: updating and maintaining real property tax lists and maps from information obtained from the Register of Deed’s Office, process tax related information and enter into the computer; prepare assessment rolls, tax rolls, tax bills and other related information; supervise remapping of section maps; maintain alphabetical and numerical listing of properties and property owners; administer county’s action to issue tax deeds and sale of said lands; order all tax forms and supplies for assessor’s; maintain personal property records; designated as the Land Records Office; prepare and write grants for land record modernization; work with the surveyors and review all certified survey maps before filing. Mapping activities: Crawford County is currently working on its GIS software. We will be training in MicroStation and ArcView. We have a 911 road map of the entire county that will be converted into MicroStation format so we can use it as a layer. The County is currently being remonumented and we will be able to utilize these maps in our GIS System.

About the City/ County: located in the Southwest corner of the state, along the banks of the Mississippi River. The county seat is Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin's second oldest city. Prairie du Chien started it's existance as a center of fur trade. the only War of 1812 battle fought in Wisconsin, took place in Prairie du Chien.