Wis. Stat. § 840.11

(1) Every person who makes an application to any court, county board, common council, or village or town board for laying out, widening, vacating or extending any street, alley, water channel, park, highway or other public place shall, at or prior to the time of filing the same with the proper officer, file a notice of the pendency of such application, containing the person's name and a brief statement of the object thereof and a map and description of the land to be affected thereby in the office of the register of deeds of each county in which any such land is situated. Neglect to comply with these provisions shall render all proceedings based upon such application void, but no order vacating, or proceedings for the vacation of, any street, alley, water channel, park, highway or other public place, made or had before May 25, 1905, shall be void solely by reason of the failure to file such notice of the pendency of such application, map and description.

(2) No final order, judgment or decree or final resolution or order taking or affecting such land, based upon any application therefor, shall have any effect or be notice to any subsequent purchaser or encumbrancer unless a certified copy thereof, giving a full and accurate description of the land affected thereby, and accompanied with a map showing the location thereof, is recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the land is situated. A resolution or order made by any such body, whereby any land shall be taken or affected without an application having been made therefor, shall have no effect and shall not be notice to any subsequent purchaser or encumbrancer unless such resolution or order is recorded.