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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 Judson (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 Judson. 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.

Judson is located in Blue Earth 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 Blue Earth County: Brown, Faribault, Le Sueur, Martin, Nicollet, Waseca & Watonwan.

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

  • Blue Earth County     (The home county of Judson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Judson, with the one closest to Judson listed first.
    • Lake Crystal
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Skyline
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Skyline is located in Blue Earth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skyline
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 299 people
    • Rapidan
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Mankato
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Mankato is located in Blue Earth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mankato
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 43,435 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mankato <1>
    • Garden City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Good Thunder
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Eagle Lake
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Vernon Center
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Vernon Center is located in Blue Earth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon Center
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 313 people
    • Beauford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Madison Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Saint Clair
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Amboy
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Mapleton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Brown County
  • Faribault County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Judson, with the one closest to Judson listed first.
    • Winnebago
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Delavan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Delavan is located in Faribault County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delavan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 166 people
    • Minnesota Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Le Sueur County
  • Martin County
    • Truman
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Truman is located in Martin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,028 people
  • Nicollet County
  • Sibley County
  • Waseca County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Judson, with the one closest to Judson listed first.
    • Janesville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Elysian
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Alma City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Waldorf
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Waldorf is located in Waseca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldorf
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
  • Watonwan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Judson, with the one closest to Judson listed first.
    • Madelia
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Grogan
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • La Salle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • La Salle is located in Watonwan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Salle
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Lewisville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Lewisville is located in Watonwan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
    • Godahl
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Godahl is located in Watonwan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godahl
    • Saint James
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Judson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Judson.

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

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

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

  • Jerusalem Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Williams Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Hebron Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Trinity Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Zion Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Kern's Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Lake Crystal Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Cambria Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Holy Family Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Minneopa Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (238 more) ...
    • St. Michael Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Nicollet Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Our Saviors Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)

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 in 1895, Judson had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Judson ...

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 180 newspapers that have been published in the area around Judson.

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

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 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 Judson:

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 Judson, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Judson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.