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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 Brook Park (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 Brook Park. 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 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.

Brook Park is located in Pine County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pine County: Aitkin, Carlton, Chisago, Isanti, Kanabec, Burnett (WI), Douglas (WI) & Polk (WI).

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

  • Pine County     (The home county of Brook Park)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brook Park, with the one closest to Brook Park listed first.
    • Henriette
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Henriette is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henriette
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
    • Beroun
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Beroun is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beroun
    • Hinckley
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Pine City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Sandstone
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Rock Creek
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Cloverdale
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Cloverdale is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
    • Finlayson
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Askov
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rutledge
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Rutledge is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutledge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 221 people
    • Willow River
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Denham
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Denham is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denham
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
  • Aitkin County
    • McGrath
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Chisago County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brook Park, with the one closest to Brook Park listed first.
    • Rush City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Harris
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • North Branch
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Isanti County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brook Park, with the one closest to Brook Park listed first.
    • Braham
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Stanchfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Elm Park
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Elm Park is located in Isanti County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Park
    • Grandy
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Dalbo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cambridge
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Minnesota Boys Town
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Minnesota Boys Town is located in Isanti County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnesota Boys Town
  • Kanabec County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brook Park, with the one closest to Brook Park listed first.
    • Quamba
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Quamba is located in Kanabec County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quamba
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 127 people
    • Grasston
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Mora
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Mora is located in Kanabec County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,583 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mora <1>
    • Coin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Coin is located in Kanabec County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin
    • Ogilvie
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Mille Lacs County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brook Park, with the one closest to Brook Park listed first.
    • Isle
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Isle is located in Mille Lacs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 790 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Isle <1>
    • Wahkon
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Bock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Bock is located in Mille Lacs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bock <1>
    • Onamia
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Milaca
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Milaca is located in Mille Lacs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milaca
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,899 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Milaca <1>
  • Burnett County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brook Park, with the one closest to Brook Park listed first.
    • Randall
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Randall is located in Burnett County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randall
    • Grantsburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Grantsburg is located in Burnett County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantsburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,296 people
    • Alpha
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Alpha is located in Burnett County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha

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

Cemeteries Near Brook Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brook Park.

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 Brook Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Brook Park Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Henriette Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Mission Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Cech Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Lutheran Memorial Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Rose Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Birchwood Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Hill Top Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill Top Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hill Top Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Pine City.
    • The Hill Top Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hilltop Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2259986 <2>
  • Evergreen Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (106 more) ...
    • Knife Lake Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Grasston Union Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bohemian Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)

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 Brook Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Brook Park.

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

  • Mission Creek
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Mission Creek is located in Pine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Creek
  • Hinckley
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Pine City
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Mora
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Mora is located in Kanabec County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mora
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,583 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mora <1>
  • Grass Lake
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Grass Lake is located in Kanabec County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Lake
  • Brunswick
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Brunswick is located in Kanabec County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunswick
  • Rock Creek
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Sandstone
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Braham
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Stanchfield
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Rush City
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Finlayson
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Rush Point
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Rush Point is located in Chisago County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush Point
    • Randall
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Randall is located in Burnett County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randall
    • Grantsburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Grantsburg is located in Burnett County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantsburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,296 people

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

Newspapers Published in Brook Park ...

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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brook Park.

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

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 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 Brook Park:

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>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 Brook Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Brook Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.