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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 Wrights Corners (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 Wrights Corners. 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.
Name Variations for Wrights Corners ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Wrights Corners: Wrights Cors.
- While the name of this community is Wrights Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Wrights Corners may originally have been Wright's Corners.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Wrights Corners might be written as Wright Corners.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Wrights Corners. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Wrights Corners.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 and hospitals 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.
Wrights Corners is located in Calhoun County.
To see how the shape of Michigan's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Calhoun County: Barry, Branch, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo & Saint Joseph.
Below are the counties that are near Wrights Corners. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wrights Corners:
- Calhoun County (The home county of Wrights Corners)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Marshall
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Ceresco
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ceresco is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceresco
- Marengo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Marengo is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marengo
- Tekonsha
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Homer
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Burlington
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Burlington is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
- Beadle Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Beadle Lake is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beadle Lake
- Albion
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Rice Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rice Creek is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Creek
- Brownlee Park
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Brownlee Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownlee Park
- Joppa
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Joppa is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
- Battle Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Barry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Banfield
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Banfield is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banfield
- Maple Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Maple Grove is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Dowling
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dowling is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
- Hickory Corners
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Nashville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Cedar Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cedar Creek is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
- Morgan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Morgan is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
- Delton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Branch County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Girard
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Girard is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
- Hodunk
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Hodunk is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodunk
- Union City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Trailtree Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Trailtree Village is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailtree Village
- Coldwater
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Quincy
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Sherwood
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Sherwood is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 306 people
- Batavia
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Batavia is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batavia
- Matteson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Matteson is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matteson
- Fisher
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Fisher is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
- Hatmaker
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Hatmaker is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatmaker
- Bronson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Eaton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Bellevue
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Olivet
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Ainger
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Ainger is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ainger
- Charlesworth
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Charlesworth is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlesworth
- Carlisle
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Carlisle is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlisle
- Charlotte
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Eaton Rapids
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Chester
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Chester is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
- Petrieville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Petrieville is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petrieville
- Vermontville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Gresham
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Gresham is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gresham
- Kingsland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Kingsland is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsland
- Hillsdale County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Litchfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Mosherville
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Mosherville is located in Hillsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosherville
- Allen
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Jonesville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hillsdale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Moscow
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Moscow is located in Hillsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
- North Adams
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Adams is located in Hillsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Adams
- Population from the 2020 Census: 461 people
- Reading
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jerome
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Steamburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Steamburg is located in Hillsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamburg
- Montgomery
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Montgomery is located in Hillsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery
- Population from the 2020 Census: 329 people
- Osseo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ingham County
- Onondaga
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jackson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Devereaux
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Devereaux is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devereaux
- Concord
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Parma
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Springport
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Spring Arbor
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Hanover
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Horton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Sandstone
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Sandstone is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandstone
- Woodville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Woodville is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Tompkins
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Tompkins is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins
- South Jackson
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- South Jackson is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Jackson
- Berryville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Berryville is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berryville
- Kalamazoo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Climax
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Climax is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
- Fulton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Fulton is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton
- Augusta
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Scotts
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Galesburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- South Gull Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- South Gull Lake is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Gull Lake
- Yorkville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Yorkville is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkville
- Highland Park
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Highland Park is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park
- Pavillion Center
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Pavillion Center is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pavillion Center
- Richland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Comstock
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Comstock is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
- Vicksburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Saint Joseph County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Factoryville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Factoryville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Factoryville
- Leonidas
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Colon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Colon is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,155 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colon <2>
- Fairfax
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fairfax is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
- Mendon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Findley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Findley is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Findley
- Burr Oak
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wrights Corners, see our County-by-County Page for Wrights Corners.
Cemeteries Near Wrights Corners ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wrights Corners.
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 Wrights Corners - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wrights Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Lyon Lake Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- West Eckford Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Oakridge Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Houston Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- McFadden Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- West Clarendon Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- East Eckford Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Calhoun County Poor Farm Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Cook's Prairie Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Marengo Memorial Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Johnson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Continue List (324 more) ...
- Windfall Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Marengo Village Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Townsend Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 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.<3>
While we didn't find Wrights Corners in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wrights Corners.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wrights Corners, with the one closest to Wrights Corners listed first.
- Eckford
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Eckford is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckford
- Marshall
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Ceresco
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ceresco is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceresco
- Tekonsha
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Clarendon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Clarendon is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarendon
- Marengo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Marengo is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marengo
- Homer
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Burlington
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Burlington is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
- Condit
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Condit is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Condit
- Butler
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Butler is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler
- Albion
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Rice Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rice Creek is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Creek
- Continue List (18 more) ...
- Girard
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Girard is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
- Joppa
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Joppa is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
- East Leroy
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- East Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Leroy
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wrights Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wrights Corners.
Newspapers Published in Wrights Corners ...
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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wrights Corners.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wrights Corners, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wrights Corners.
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 helpful 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 Wrights Corners:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Calhoun County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Barry County
- Branch County
- Eaton County
- Hillsdale County
- Ingham County
- Jackson County
- Kalamazoo County
- Saint Joseph County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Michigan
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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 Wrights Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wrights Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |