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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 Lisle (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 Lisle. 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 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.

Lisle is located in DuPage County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of DuPage County: Cook, Kane, Kendall & Will.

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

  • DuPage County     (The home county of Lisle)
  • Cook County
  • DeKalb County
  • Grundy County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lisle, with the one closest to Lisle listed first.
    • Minooka
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Channahon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Sand Ridge
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Kane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lisle, with the one closest to Lisle listed first.
    • Aurora
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Batavia
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Geneva
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Mooseheart
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • North Aurora
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • North Aurora is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Aurora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,144 people
    • Saint Charles
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Coleman
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bonnie
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Bonnie is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie
      • Bonnie has also been known as:
      • Bonnie Valley
    • South Elgin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • South Elgin is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Elgin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24,646 people
    • Campton Hills
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Campton Hills is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campton Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,063 people
      • Campton Hills has also been known as:
      • Campton Hills village
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Campton Hills <1>
    • Sugar Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Elgin
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Kendall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lisle, with the one closest to Lisle listed first.
    • Boulder Hill
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Boulder Hill is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Hill
    • Montgomery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Oswego
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bristol
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Yorkville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Plattville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Plattville is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plattville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
    • Plano
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Plano is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,879 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plano <1>
    • Little Rock
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Little Rock is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Rock
    • Millbrook
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Lisbon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lisle, with the one closest to Lisle listed first.
    • Buffalo Grove
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Deer Park
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Kildeer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Aptakisic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Lake Zurich
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Long Grove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Prairie View
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Riverwoods
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Deerfield
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Forest Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Lake Barrington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Lake Barrington is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Barrington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,840 people
    • Braeside
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Braeside is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braeside
  • McHenry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lisle, with the one closest to Lisle listed first.
    • Algonquin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Fox River Grove
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Trout Valley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Trout Valley is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Valley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 508 people
    • Lake-in-the-Hills
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cary
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Cary is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cary
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,929 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cary <1>
    • Huntley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Will County

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

Cemeteries Near Lisle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lisle.

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

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

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

  • Illinois Benedictine College Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Bernards Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Blodgett Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Oak Crest Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Downers Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Wheaton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Pierce Downer Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • St. Marys Lombard Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Naperville Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Mary of Gostyn Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (417 more) ...

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 Lisle had a population of 62 people in 1895 with railroad service and no post office. In 2020, Lisle had a population of 23,153 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lisle ...

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 59 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lisle.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lisle. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lisle and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lisle.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> of Lisle.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Lisle:

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 Lisle, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Lisle) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.