Voth County was founded in the early 1870s. Its county seat, Voth, was incorporated soon after the county's creation. In 1933, a string of burglaries began occurring. These burglaries occurred from 1933 to 1936. About 121 people were arrested within that time frame. In 1965, an improvement project began, and, by 1974, new street lights were installed in the cities and new sidewalks had been built.