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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 Spurville (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 Spurville. 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.

Spurville is located in Stanton 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 Stanton County: Colfax, Cuming, Madison, Pierce, Platte & Wayne.

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

  • Stanton County     (The home county of Spurville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Stanton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Pilger
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Cedar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Randolph
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Belden
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Laurel
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Colfax County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Clarkson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Leigh
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Howells
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Cuming County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Wisner
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Aloys
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Aloys is located in Cuming County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aloys
    • Beemer
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Monterey
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Monterey is located in Cuming County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
    • West Point
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • West Point is located in Cuming County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,237 people
      • West Point has also been known as:
      • Westpoint
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for West Point <1>
  • Dixon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Wakefield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Concord
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Dixon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Emerson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Dodge County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Dodge
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Snyder
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Norfolk
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Warnerville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Warnerville is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warnerville
    • Madison
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Battle Creek
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Fairview ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Fairview is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
    • Kalamazoo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Kalamazoo is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalamazoo
    • Meadow Grove
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Emerick
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Emerick is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerick
  • Pierce County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Hadar
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Wee Town
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Wee Town is located in Pierce County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wee Town
    • Pierce
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • McLean
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Foster
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Osmond
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Platte County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Creston
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Humphrey
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cornlea
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Cornlea is located in Platte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornlea
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
    • Saint Bernard
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Saint Bernard is located in Platte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Bernard
  • Thurston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Pender
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Thurston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Wayne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spurville, with the one closest to Spurville listed first.
    • Hoskins
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Winside
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Carroll
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Wayne
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Sholes
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Sholes is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sholes
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people

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

Cemeteries Near Spurville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Spurville.

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

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

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

  • Bethlehem Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Zander Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasant Run Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Bega Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Koch Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Belz Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Zilmer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zilmer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Zilmer Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Stanton.
  • Pilger Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Christ Lutheran Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Lutheran Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Zion - Bauremeister Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion - Bauremeister Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Zion - Bauremeister Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the east of Norfolk.
    • The Zion - Bauremeister Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Zion Cemetery
  • Continue List   (95 more) ...
    • Trinity Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Immanuel Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Erychleb Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Stanton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Hoskins
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Pilger
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Norfolk
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Winside
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Warnerville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Warnerville is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warnerville
  • Hadar
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Wisner
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Bismarck ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bismarck is located in Cuming County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bismarck
  • Carroll
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Madison
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Wayne
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Battle Creek
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Clarkson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Pierce
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Spurville ...

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 168 newspapers that have been published in the area around Spurville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Spurville, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Spurville.

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 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 Spurville:

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