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A visit to the Saint John's Lutheran Church Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery (FG ID #2392174)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery

Lat:   41.3442°   (41° 20' 39")

Lon:   -97.5414°   (-97° 32' 29")

The St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery is located in Polk County<2>.

The county seat for Polk County is located in Osceola. Osceola lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the south of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery .

Establishment of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery ...

The St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery was:

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 20 that are within 14 miles [22.5 km] of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 19 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Polk County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Bellwood
  • Clarks
    • Clarks lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> to the West Southwest (WSW) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Clarks.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks
  • Columbus
    • Columbus lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the East Northeast (ENE) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Columbus.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
  • David City
  • Fullerton
  • Garrison
    • Garrison lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<3> to the East Southeast (ESE) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Garrison.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garrison
  • Genoa
    • Genoa lies 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the Northwest (NW) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Genoa.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
  • Monroe
    • Monroe lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the North Northwest (NNW) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Monroe.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroe
  • Osceola
    • Osceola lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the South (S) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Osceola.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
  • Platte Center
  • Polk
    • Polk lies 22 miles [35.4 km]<3> to the Southwest (SW) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Polk.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polk
  • Rising City
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    • Shelby
      • Shelby lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the South Southeast (SSE) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
      • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Shelby.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelby
    • Silver Creek
    • Stromsburg
    • Surprise
      • Surprise lies 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> to the Southeast (SE) of the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery.
      • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Surprise.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Surprise

Websites to help with your 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 websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery:

Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery:

The official website for State of Nebraska: https://www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Nebraska's counties, including Polk, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the St. John's Lutheran Church Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.3442, Longitude: -97.5414    
<4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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