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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 Eyota (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 Eyota. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Eyota is located in Olmsted 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 Olmsted County: Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Mower, Wabasha & Winona.

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

  • Olmsted County     (The home county of Eyota)
  • Dodge County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eyota, with the one closest to Eyota listed first.
    • Kasson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Mantorville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Dodge Center
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Fillmore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eyota, with the one closest to Eyota listed first.
    • Chatfield
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Fillmore
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Fountain
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Wykoff
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Carimona
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Spring Valley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Lanesboro
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Preston
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Whalan
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Peterson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Rushford Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rushford Village is located in Fillmore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rushford Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 838 people
    • Rushford
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Goodhue County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eyota, with the one closest to Eyota listed first.
    • Pine Island
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Bellechester
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Bellechester is located in Goodhue County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellechester
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 177 people
    • Zumbrota
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Mower County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eyota, with the one closest to Eyota listed first.
    • Racine
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Grand Meadow
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Dexter
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Wabasha County
  • Winona County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eyota, with the one closest to Eyota listed first.
    • Saint Charles
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Saratoga
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Troy
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Elba
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Elba is located in Winona County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elba
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
    • Utica
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Clyde
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Altura
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Beaver ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Lewiston
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Rollingstone
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Wyattville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Stockton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Stockton is located in Winona County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 773 people
  • Buffalo County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eyota, with the one closest to Eyota listed first.
    • Buffalo City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Buffalo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Buffalo is located in Buffalo County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo
    • Cochrane
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Fountain City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Alma
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Anchorage ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Anchorage is located in Buffalo County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anchorage

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

Cemeteries Near Eyota ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eyota.

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

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

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

  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Edith Wright Farm Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Holy Redeemer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Ben Baer Farm Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Walter McConnell Farm Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • St. Paul's Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Cline Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Randall Fork Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Coffin's Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Chester Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (205 more) ...
    • Marion Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Orion Center Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Calvary Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Eyota had a population of 377 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Eyota had a population of 1,992 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Eyota ...

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 69 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eyota.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

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

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 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 Eyota:

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