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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 Coin (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 Coin. 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 and doctors 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.

Coin is located in Kanabec 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 Kanabec County: Aitkin, Chisago, Isanti, Mille Lacs & Pine.

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

  • Kanabec County     (The home county of Coin)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Grasston
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Ogilvie
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Mora
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Quamba
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Quamba is located in Kanabec County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quamba
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 127 people
  • Anoka County
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Oak Park
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Ronneby
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Ronneby is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ronneby
    • Foley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Gilman
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Chisago County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Rush City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Harris
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • North Branch
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Branch
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Branch is located in Chisago County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branch
    • Stacy
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Almelund
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Isanti County
  • Mille Lacs County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Bock
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Milaca
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Pease
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Pease is located in Mille Lacs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pease
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
    • Princeton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Foreston
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Estes Brook
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Wahkon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Onamia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Isle
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • 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>
  • Pine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Henriette
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Henriette is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henriette
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
    • Pine City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Brook Park
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Brook Park is located in Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brook Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
    • Rock Creek
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Beroun
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Hinckley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Sherburne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Zimmerman
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Orrock
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Santiago
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Elk River
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Burnett County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Coin, with the one closest to Coin listed first.
    • Randall
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Randall is located in Burnett County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randall
    • Grantsburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Coin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coin.

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

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

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

  • Siloa Lutheran Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Maple Ridge Free Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • North Maple Ridge Covenant Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • South Maple Ridge Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Rice Lake Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Mission Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Grass Lake Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Springvale Baptist Church Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Elm Park Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Stanchfield Baptist Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (146 more) ...
    • Grasston Union Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Karmel Covenant Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Danewood Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)

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>

While we didn't find Coin in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Coin.

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

  • Brunswick
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Brunswick is located in Kanabec County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunswick
  • Dalbo
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Braham
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Springvale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Springvale is located in Isanti County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springvale
  • Stanchfield
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Grass Lake
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Grass Lake is located in Kanabec County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Lake
  • Mora
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Cambridge
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Rush Point
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Rush Point is located in Chisago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rush Point
  • Bradford
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Stark
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Stark is located in Chisago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
  • Spencer Brook
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Spencer Brook is located in Isanti County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer Brook
  • 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 Coin. See our List of 1890's Communities around Coin.

Newspapers Published in Coin ...

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 82 newspapers that have been published in the area around Coin.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coin, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Coin.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Coin:

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 Coin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Coin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.