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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 Bagley (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 Bagley. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Bagley is located in Grant 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 Grant County: Clayton (IA), Dubuque (IA), Jo Daviess (IL), Crawford, Iowa, Lafayette & Richland.

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

  • Grant County     (The home county of Bagley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bagley, with the one closest to Bagley listed first.
    • Wyalusing
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Glen Haven
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Patch Grove
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Patch Grove is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patch Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Bloomington
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Bloomington is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
    • North Andover
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Millville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Mount Hope
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Mount Hope is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hope
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 216 people
    • Beetown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Cassville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Mount Ida
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Werley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Werley is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Werley
    • Woodman
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Woodman is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
    • Lancaster
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Crawford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bagley, with the one closest to Bagley listed first.
    • Bridgeport
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Prairie du Chien
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Wauzeka
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Wauzeka is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wauzeka
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 733 people
    • Charme
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Charme is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charme
    • Eastman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Eastman is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 404 people
    • Boydtown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Steuben
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Petersburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Mount Sterling
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Mount Sterling is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 196 people
    • Ferryville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Ferryville is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ferryville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
    • Bell Center
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Allamakee County (IA)
  • Clayton County (IA)
  • Delaware County (IA)
  • Dubuque County (IA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bagley, with the one closest to Bagley listed first.
    • Waupeton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Luxemburg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Luxemburg is located in Dubuque County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
    • Holy Cross
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Holy Cross is located in Dubuque County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holy Cross
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 370 people
    • Balltown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Old Balltown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • New Vienna
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Rickardsville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rickardsville is located in Dubuque County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rickardsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 179 people
    • Sherrill
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Bankston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Bankston is located in Dubuque County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bankston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 27 people
    • Dyersville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Summit Village Dyersville Park
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Durango
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Graf
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Graf is located in Dubuque County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graf
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 81 people
  • Fayette County (IA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bagley, with the one closest to Bagley listed first.
    • Elgin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Illyria
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Clermont
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Wadena
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Arlington
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Arlington is located in Fayette County (IA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 393 people
    • Brainard
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Bagley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bagley.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bagley, with the one closest to Bagley 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Bagley had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Bagley had a population of 367 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Bagley ...

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 113 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bagley.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Bagley:

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 'straight-line' (or 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- Bagley) 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 Bagley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.