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 Anacker (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 Anacker. 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 southeast 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 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.
Anacker is primarily located in Columbia County. A portion of Anacker extends into Marquette County.
To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Columbia County: Adams, Dane, Dodge, Green Lake, Juneau, Marquette & Sauk.
Below are the counties that are near Anacker. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Anacker:
- Columbia County (The home county of Anacker)
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Portage
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Portage is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,381 people
- Pardeeville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pardeeville is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pardeeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,053 people
- Wyocena
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wyocena is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyocena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 727 people
- Former names for Wyocena:
- Duck Creek
- Wiocena
- Durwards Glen ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Durwards Glen is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durwards Glen
- Rio
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Rio is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,047 people
- Poynette
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Poynette is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poynette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,508 people
- Wisconsin Dells
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Wisconsin Dells is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisconsin Dells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,061 people
- Cambria
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Cambria is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambria
- Population from the 2020 Census: 748 people
- Friesland
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Friesland is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friesland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 341 people
- Harmony Grove
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Harmony Grove is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Grove
- Lake Wisconsin
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Lake Wisconsin is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wisconsin
- Okee
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Okee is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okee
- Arlington
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Arlington is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 818 people
- Adams County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Plainville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Plainville is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
- Easton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Easton is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easton
- Pilot Knob ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Pilot Knob is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilot Knob
- Adams
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Adams is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,905 people
- Friendship
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Friendship is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
- Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
- Quincy ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Quincy is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quincy
- Dane County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Morrisonville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Morrisonville is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrisonville
- Dane
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Dane is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dane
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,134 people
- DeForest
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- DeForest is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeForest
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,915 people
- North Bristol
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Bristol is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bristol
- Windsor
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Windsor is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
- East Bristol
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- East Bristol is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bristol
- Waunakee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Waunakee is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waunakee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 14,188 people
- Dodge County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Randolph
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Randolph is located in Dodge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,738 people
- Fox Lake
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Fox Lake is located in Dodge County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,440 people
- Fond du Lac County
- Fairwater
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Fairwater is located in Fond du Lac County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairwater
- Population from the 2020 Census: 352 people
- Green Lake County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Kingston
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Kingston is located in Green Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
- Population from the 2020 Census: 319 people
- Marquette
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Marquette is located in Green Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marquette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
- Princeton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Princeton is located in Green Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Princeton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,166 people
- Markesan
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Markesan is located in Green Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markesan
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,389 people
- Utley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Utley is located in Green Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utley
- Green Lake
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Green Lake is located in Green Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 959 people
- Juneau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Lyndon Station
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Lyndon Station is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon Station
- Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
- Lemonweir
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Lemonweir is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemonweir
- Marquette County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Endeavor
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Endeavor is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Endeavor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 464 people
- Douglas Center
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Douglas Center is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas Center
- Packwaukee
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Packwaukee is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packwaukee
- Glen Oak
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Glen Oak is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Oak
- Oxford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Oxford is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 604 people
- Montello
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Montello is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montello
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,454 people
- Westfield
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Westfield is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,268 people
- Germania
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Germania is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania
- Neshkoro
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Neshkoro is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neshkoro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 425 people
- Sauk County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Lake Delton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Lake Delton is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Delton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,986 people
- Baraboo
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Baraboo is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baraboo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 12,121 people
- Merrimac
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Merrimac is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrimac
- Population from the 2020 Census: 441 people
- West Baraboo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- West Baraboo is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Baraboo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,416 people
- Moon Valley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Moon Valley is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moon Valley
- North Freedom
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- North Freedom is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Freedom
- Population from the 2020 Census: 690 people
- Rock Springs
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Rock Springs is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
- Prairie du Sac village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Prairie du Sac village is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie du Sac village
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,426 people
- Sauk City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sauk City is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,498 people
- Reedsburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Reedsburg is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedsburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,500 people
- Denzer
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Denzer is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denzer
- Waushara County
- The following are listed by their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Coloma
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Coloma is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coloma
- Population from the 2020 Census: 444 people
- Rodney ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rodney is located in Waushara County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodney
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Anacker, see our County-by-County Page for Anacker.
Cemeteries Near Anacker ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Anacker.
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 Anacker - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Anacker covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Bach Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Spicer Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Rood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Old Ft. Winnebago Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Henion Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Fuller Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Silver Lake Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- North Marcellon Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cummings Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Continue List (212 more) ...
- St. Paul Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Comstock Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- St. Michaels 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>
While we didn't find Anacker in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Anacker.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Anacker, with the one closest to Anacker listed first.
- Portage
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Portage is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,381 people
- Douglas Center
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Douglas Center is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas Center
- Briggsville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Briggsville is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggsville
- Pardeeville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pardeeville is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pardeeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,053 people
- Marcellon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Marcellon is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcellon
- Belle Fountain
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Belle Fountain is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Fountain
- Packwaukee
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Packwaukee is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Packwaukee
- Big Spring
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Big Spring is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Spring
- Dekorra
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Dekorra is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekorra
- Wyocena
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wyocena is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyocena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 727 people
- Former names for Wyocena:
- Duck Creek
- Wiocena
- Oxford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Oxford is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 604 people
- Montello
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Montello is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montello
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,454 people
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Dell Prairie ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Dell Prairie is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell Prairie
- Rio
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Rio is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,047 people
- Poynette
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Poynette is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poynette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,508 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Anacker. See our List of 1890's Communities around Anacker.
Newspapers Published in Anacker ...
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 132 newspapers that have been published in the area around Anacker.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Anacker, 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 Anacker.
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 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 Anacker:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Columbia County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Adams County
- Dane County
- Dodge County
- Fond du Lac County
- Green Lake County
- Juneau County
- Marquette County
- Sauk County
- Waushara County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
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> | 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 Anacker, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Anacker) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |