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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 Adaville (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 Adaville. 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.

Adaville is located in Plymouth County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Plymouth County: Cherokee, Sioux, Woodbury & Union (SD).

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

  • Plymouth County     (The home county of Adaville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adaville, with the one closest to Adaville listed first.
    • Millnerville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Merrill
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Brunsville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Brunsville is located in Plymouth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 152 people
    • Akron
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Hinton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Westfield
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Craig
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Craig is located in Plymouth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craig
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
    • Le Mars
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • James
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Struble
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Struble is located in Plymouth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Struble
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
    • O'Leary
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Oyens
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Oyens is located in Plymouth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyens
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
    • Remsen
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Cherokee County
    • Marcus
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Sioux County
  • Woodbury County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adaville, with the one closest to Adaville listed first.
    • Evergreen Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Evergreen Village is located in Woodbury County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Village
    • Holiday Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Holiday Village is located in Woodbury County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Village
    • Sioux City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Regency of Sioux City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Regency of Sioux City is located in Woodbury County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regency of Sioux City
    • Lawton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Lawton is located in Woodbury County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
    • Glen Ellen
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Sergeant Bluff
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Moville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Bronson
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Pierson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Pierson is located in Woodbury County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 349 people
  • Dakota County (NE)
  • Dixon County (NE)
  • Clay County (SD)
  • Lincoln County (SD)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Adaville, with the one closest to Adaville listed first.
    • Hudson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Hudson is located in Lincoln County (SD)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hudson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 356 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hudson <1>
    • Moe
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Union County (SD)

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

Cemeteries Near Adaville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Adaville.

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 Adaville - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • St. Pauls Lutheran Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Mills Family Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Plymouth Presbyterian Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Johns Lutheran Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Assumption Catholic Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Christ Lutheran Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (124 more) ...
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Westfield Twp. Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Melbourne Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)

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 in 1895, Adaville had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Crathorne
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Crathorne is located in Plymouth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crathorne
  • Potosia
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Potosia is located in Plymouth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potosia
  • Merrill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Akron
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Hinton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Westfield
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Jefferson
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • James
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Chatsworth
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Le Mars
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Richland
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Richland is located in Union County (SD)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
    • Estimated population in 2014: 215 people
  • Neptune
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Neptune is located in Plymouth County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Elk Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Leeds
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Leeds is located in Woodbury County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeds
    • Struble
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Struble is located in Plymouth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Struble
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people

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

Newspapers Published in Adaville ...

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 135 newspapers that have been published in the area around Adaville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Adaville, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Adaville.

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 either 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 Adaville:

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 Adaville, 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- Adaville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.