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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 Mikes Meadows (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 Mikes Meadows. 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.

Name Variations for Mikes Meadows ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Mikes Meadows: Mikes Mdws.
  • While the name of this community is Mikes Meadows, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Mikes Meadows may originally have been Mike's Meadows.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Mikes Meadows might be written as Mike Meadows.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Mikes Meadows is located in Loup County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Loup County: Blaine, Brown, Custer, Garfield, Holt, Rock & Valley.

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

  • Loup County     (The home county of Mikes Meadows)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mikes Meadows, with the one closest to Mikes Meadows listed first.
    • Taylor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Almeria
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Almeria is located in Loup County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almeria
  • Custer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mikes Meadows, with the one closest to Mikes Meadows listed first.
    • Sargent
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Comstock
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Wescott
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Wescott is located in Custer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
    • Gates
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Gates is located in Custer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates
    • Weissert
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • New Helena
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • New Helena is located in Custer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Helena
  • Garfield County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mikes Meadows, with the one closest to Mikes Meadows listed first.
    • Burwell
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Willow Springs is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
    • Gables ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Gables is located in Garfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gables
  • Rock County
  • Valley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mikes Meadows, with the one closest to Mikes Meadows listed first.
    • Elyria
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Ord
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Ord is located in Valley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,052 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ord <2>
  • Wheeler County
    • Ericson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Mikes Meadows ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mikes Meadows.

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 Mikes Meadows - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<5>

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

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

  • Kent ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Kent is located in Loup County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kent
  • Taylor
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Burwell
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Willow Springs ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Willow Springs is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
  • Almeria
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Almeria is located in Loup County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almeria
  • Sargent
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • West Union ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • West Union is located in Custer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
  • Elyria
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Geranium ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Geranium is located in Valley County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geranium
  • Walworth
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Walworth is located in Custer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walworth
  • Wescott
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Wescott is located in Custer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wescott
  • Gates
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Gates is located in Custer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gates
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Round Valley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Round Valley is located in Custer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
    • Ord
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Ord is located in Valley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ord
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,052 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ord <2>
    • Lillian
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Lillian is located in Custer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillian

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

Newspapers Published in Mikes Meadows ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mikes Meadows.

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

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 Mikes Meadows:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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- Mikes Meadows) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<5>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 Mikes Meadows, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.