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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Green Bay. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Green Bay to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Green Bay, please Contact Us.

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 Green Bay (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 Green Bay. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Green Bay is historic, it would have been located within present day Clarke 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 Clarke County: Decatur, Lucas, Madison, Ringgold, Union, Warren & Wayne.

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

  • Clarke County     (The home county of Green Bay)
  • Decatur County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • Van Wert
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Le Roy
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Garden Grove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Garden Grove is located in Decatur County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
    • Grand River
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Grand River is located in Decatur County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
    • Decatur City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Decatur City is located in Decatur County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Decatur City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
    • Leon
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Woodland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Davis City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Lamoni
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Morgan
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Pleasanton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Lucas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • Derby
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Derby is located in Lucas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 111 people
    • Lucas
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Chariton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Williamson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Russell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • Truro
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Barney
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • East Peru
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Saint Charles
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Ord
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Macksburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Patterson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Marion County
  • Ringgold County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • Beaconsfield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Beaconsfield is located in Ringgold County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaconsfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
    • Ellston
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Ellston is located in Ringgold County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 38 people
    • Kellerton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Tingley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Mount Ayr
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Knowlton ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Diagonal
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Union County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • Thayer
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Lorimor
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Afton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Arispe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Shannon City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Warren County
  • Wayne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • Humeston
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Millerton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Millerton is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millerton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 42 people
    • Allerton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Clio
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hodge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Hodge is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodge
    • Corydon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Lineville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Lineville is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lineville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
  • Harrison County (MO)
  • Mercer County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Green Bay, with the one closest to Green Bay listed first.
    • South Lineville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • South Lineville is located in Mercer County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lineville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 27 people
    • Burrows
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Mercer
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Green Bay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Green Bay.

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 Green Bay - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

Green Bay itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Weldon
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Leslie
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Leslie is located in Clarke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
  • Van Wert
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Groveland ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Groveland is located in Clarke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groveland
  • Lacelle
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Kingston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Kingston is located in Decatur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
  • Smyrna
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Smyrna is located in Clarke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
  • Osceola
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Le Roy
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Garden Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Garden Grove is located in Decatur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Grove
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
  • Grand River
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Grand River is located in Decatur County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand River
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
  • Woodburn
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Green Bay ...

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 115 newspapers that have been published in the area around Green Bay.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Green Bay, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Green Bay.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Green Bay:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Green Bay, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Green Bay) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.