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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 Atalissa (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 Atalissa. 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 northwest 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 north.

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 north 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.

Atalissa is located in Muscatine 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 Muscatine County: Cedar, Johnson, Louisa, Scott & Rock Island (IL).

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

  • Muscatine County     (The home county of Atalissa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atalissa, with the one closest to Atalissa listed first.
    • Moscow
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • West Liberty
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Wilton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • South Towne Park
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • South Towne Park is located in Muscatine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Towne Park
    • Nichols
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Nichols is located in Muscatine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
    • Muscatine
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Pleasant Prairie
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Fruitland
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Stockton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Stockton is located in Muscatine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 189 people
    • Fairport
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Pine Mills ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Pine Mills is located in Muscatine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Mills
    • Conesville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Cedar County
  • Clinton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atalissa, with the one closest to Atalissa listed first.
    • Wheatland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Wheatland is located in Clinton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 724 people
    • Calamus
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Calamus is located in Clinton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calamus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 397 people
    • Toronto
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Johnson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atalissa, with the one closest to Atalissa listed first.
    • Oasis
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Lone Tree
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Midway ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Elmira
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • River Junction
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Morse
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Hills
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Iowa City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • University Heights
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • University Heights is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for University Heights
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,025 people
    • Solon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Solon is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,771 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Solon <1>
    • Coralville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Oakdale
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Oakdale is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakdale
  • Jones County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atalissa, with the one closest to Atalissa listed first.
    • Olin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Oxford Mills
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Hale
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Morley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Oxford Junction
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Oxford Junction is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford Junction
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 480 people
  • Linn County
  • Louisa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atalissa, with the one closest to Atalissa listed first.
    • Letts
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Grandview
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Grandview is located in Louisa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grandview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 519 people
    • Gladwin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Fredonia
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Fredonia is located in Louisa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredonia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 220 people
    • Columbus Junction
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Columbus City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Columbus City is located in Louisa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 371 people
    • Cotter
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cotter is located in Louisa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotter
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 42 people
    • Wapello
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Wyman
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Scott County
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atalissa, with the one closest to Atalissa listed first.
    • Riverside
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Ainsworth
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Kalona
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Kalona is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalona
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,560 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kalona <1>
  • Mercer County (IL)
  • Rock Island County (IL)

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

Cemeteries Near Atalissa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Atalissa.

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

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

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

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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Atalissa had a population of 263 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Atalissa had a population of 302 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Atalissa ...

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 86 newspapers that have been published in the area around Atalissa.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Atalissa, 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 Atalissa.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Atalissa:

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>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Atalissa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Atalissa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.