Ellsworth is a village in and the county chair of Pierce County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 3,348 at the 2020 census. The village is neighboring the Town of Ellsworth and now incorporates the formerly separate district known as East Ellsworth. The municipality of Ellsworth and its surroundings are slowly becoming incorporated into the Twin Cities Metro Area.^{[citation needed]}

Settlement in the area that now comprises the village of Ellsworth began subsequent to the beginning of several families in 1857. The village was officially platted in 1862, then incorporated in 1887. The village was initially called Perry, in tribute of the War of 1812 hero, Oliver Hazard Perry, but was renamed in 1866 in award of Col. Elmer E. Ellsworth, the first Union overseer to die in the Civil War. A close friend of Pres. Abraham Lincoln, Ellsworth died even though removing a deeply visible Confederate flag from the roof of a hotel overlooking the Potomac River in Alexandria, Virginia. The incident usual national attention, and at least one new town, Ellsworth, Michigan, was named in his honor.

Downtown Ellsworth’s location atop a steep hill is the outcome of an 1861 disagreement between Pierce County’s two major towns, Prescott and River Falls, over which should be county seat. The compromise reached was to appeal lines on a map connecting the corners of the county, northwest to southeast and northeast to southwest. The intersection of these lines at a densely forested site at the summit of a ridge distinct the placement of the further town. A log building was brusquely erected to facilitate as a courthouse, then replaced by a wood-frame structure very nearly two years later. The current Pierce County Courthouse, built 1905, was intended by the noted St. Paul utter of Buechner & Orth. The structure exhibits characteristics of both the neoclassical and Beaux-Arts styles, topped by a large showground above a five-story hexagonal rotunda.

Ellsworth is located at 44°43′57″N 92°28′48″W / 44.73250°N 92.48000°W / 44.73250; -92.48000 (44.73261, -92.480177).