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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 Hamburg (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 Hamburg. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Hamburg is located in Fremont 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 Fremont County: Mills, Page, Atchison (MO), Cass (NE) & Otoe (NE).

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

  • Fremont County     (The home county of Hamburg)
  • Mills County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamburg, with the one closest to Hamburg listed first.
    • Clark
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Clark is located in Mills County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark
    • Malvern
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Mills
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Pacific Junction
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Glenwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Hastings
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Hastings is located in Mills County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hastings
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
  • Montgomery County
    • Coburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Coburg is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
  • Page County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamburg, with the one closest to Hamburg listed first.
    • Shenandoah
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Northboro
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Blanchard
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Coin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Essex
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Tarkio City ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Tarkio City is located in Page County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarkio City
    • Yorktown
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Yorktown is located in Page County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorktown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 83 people
    • College Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • College Springs is located in Page County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
    • Nyman
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Atchison County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamburg, with the one closest to Hamburg listed first.
    • Watson
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Farmers City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Farmers City is located in Atchison County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmers City
    • Phelps City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Phelps City is located in Atchison County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phelps City
    • Rock Port
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Westboro
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Westboro is located in Atchison County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westboro
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
    • Tarkio
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Fairfax
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Fairfax is located in Atchison County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 568 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairfax <1>
  • Holt County (MO)
    • Corning
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Nodaway County (MO)
    • Elmo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Elmo is located in Nodaway County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 148 people
  • Cass County (NE)
  • Johnson County (NE)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hamburg, with the one closest to Hamburg listed first.
    • Graf ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Cook
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Cook is located in Johnson County (NE)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cook <1>
  • Nemaha County (NE)
  • Otoe County (NE)
  • Richardson County (NE)

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

Cemeteries Near Hamburg ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hamburg.

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

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

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

  • Hamburg Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Beehive Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Austin Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Slusher Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Utterback Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Means Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Frost Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Baker Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Columbia & French Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Brown Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (196 more) ...
    • Stauch Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lovelady Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Buckham Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)

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 Hamburg had a population of 1,634 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Hamburg had a population of 1,041 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Hamburg ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hamburg.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Hamburg. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Hamburg and those printed in the larger area surrounding Hamburg.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Hamburg.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Hamburg:

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