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Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about LaCrosse (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for LaCrosse. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

LaCrosse is located in Izard County.

To see how the shape of Arkansas' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Izard County: Baxter, Fulton, Independence, Sharp & Stone.

Below are the counties that are near LaCrosse. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to LaCrosse:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to LaCrosse, see our County-by-County Page for LaCrosse.

Cemeteries Near LaCrosse ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of LaCrosse.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for LaCrosse - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for LaCrosse covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from LaCrosse, with the one closest to LaCrosse listed first.

  • Watkins Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Sweet Home Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Caney Spring Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Old Philadelphia Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Bigham Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Bathelhem Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Shell Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Campbell Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • New Liberty Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Ramsey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (273 more) ...
    • Reed Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Old Reed Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lawrence Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that LaCrosse had a population of 150 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from LaCrosse, with the one closest to LaCrosse listed first.

  • Sage
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Violet Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Melbourne
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Zion
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Zion is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion
  • Franklin
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Newburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Lunenburg
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Gid
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Gid is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gid
  • Jumbo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Oxford
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Sidney
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sidney is located in Sharp County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
  • Wideman
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Wideman is located in Izard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wideman
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Alvis ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Alvis is located in Independence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvis
    • Union
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Union is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
    • Evening Shade
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around LaCrosse. See our List of 1890's Communities around LaCrosse.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of LaCrosse ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around LaCrosse.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of LaCrosse. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of LaCrosse and those printed in the larger area surrounding LaCrosse.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3> of LaCrosse.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to LaCrosse:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about LaCrosse, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- LaCrosse) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.