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 Black Hawk (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 Black Hawk. 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 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 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.
Black Hawk is located in Sauk 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 Sauk County: Adams, Columbia, Dane, Iowa, Juneau, Richland & Vernon.
Below are the counties that are near Black Hawk. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Black Hawk:
- Sauk County (The home county of Black Hawk)
- The following are listed by their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Witwen
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Witwen is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Witwen
- Leland
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Leland is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
- Denzer
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Denzer is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denzer
- Plain
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Plain is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
- Population from the 2020 Census: 765 people
- Sauk City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Sauk City is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,498 people
- Spring Green
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Spring Green is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Green
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,630 people
- Prairie du Sac village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- 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
- North Freedom
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- North Freedom is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Freedom
- Population from the 2020 Census: 690 people
- Loganville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Loganville is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 297 people
- Rock Springs
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Rock Springs is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
- Moon Valley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Moon Valley is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moon Valley
- Sandusky
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Sandusky is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandusky
- Adams County
- Plainville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Plainville is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
- Columbia County
- The following are listed by their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Okee
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Okee is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okee
- Lake Wisconsin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Wisconsin is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wisconsin
- Harmony Grove
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Harmony Grove is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Grove
- Lodi
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Lodi is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,109 people
- Durwards Glen ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Durwards Glen is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durwards Glen
- Wisconsin Dells
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Wisconsin Dells is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisconsin Dells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,061 people
- Poynette
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Poynette is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poynette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,508 people
- Arlington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Arlington is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 818 people
- Portage
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Portage is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,381 people
- North Leeds
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- North Leeds is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Leeds
- Dane County
- The following are listed by their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Mazomanie
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mazomanie is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mazomanie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,715 people
- Black Earth
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Black Earth is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Earth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,422 people
- Marxville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Marxville is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marxville
- Elvers
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Elvers is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elvers
- Blue Mounds
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Blue Mounds is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mounds
- Population from the 2020 Census: 990 people
- Cross Plains
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cross Plains is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Plains
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,280 people
- Martinsville
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Martinsville is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinsville
- Mount Horeb
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Horeb is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Horeb
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,563 people
- Dane
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Dane is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dane
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,134 people
- Ashton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ashton is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashton
- Klevenville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Klevenville is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klevenville
- Ashton Corners
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Ashton Corners is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashton Corners
- Grant County
- Muscoda
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Muscoda is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscoda
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,236 people
- Iowa County
- The following are listed by their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Cassell
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Cassell is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassell
- Arena
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Arena is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 831 people
- Helena
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Helena is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Hyde
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Hyde is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyde
- Pleasant Ridge
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Pleasant Ridge is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
- Barneveld
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Barneveld is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barneveld
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,252 people
- Ridgeway
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Ridgeway is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeway
- Population from the 2020 Census: 635 people
- Avoca
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Avoca is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avoca
- Population from the 2020 Census: 620 people
- Dodgeville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Dodgeville is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodgeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,677 people
- Edmund
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Edmund is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmund
- Hollandale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Hollandale is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollandale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 273 people
- Highland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Highland is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 826 people
- Juneau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Lyndon Station
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Lyndon Station is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon Station
- Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
- Wonewoc
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wonewoc is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wonewoc
- Population from the 2020 Census: 789 people
- Richland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Bear Valley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Bear Valley is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Valley
- Lone Rock
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lone Rock is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Rock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 835 people
- Aubrey
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Aubrey is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aubrey
- Ithaca
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Ithaca is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ithaca
- Neptune
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Neptune is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune
- Sextonville
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Sextonville is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextonville
- Cazenovia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Cazenovia is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cazenovia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
- Richland Center
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Richland Center is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,949 people
- Hub City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hub City is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub City
- Balmoral
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Balmoral is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balmoral
- Woodstock
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Woodstock is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
- Gillingham
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Gillingham is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillingham
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Black Hawk, see our County-by-County Page for Black Hawk.
Cemeteries Near Black Hawk ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Black Hawk.
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 Black Hawk - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Black Hawk covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Union Grove Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Free Thinkers Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Cassell Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Zion Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- St. Lukes Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Arena Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Whitemound Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Davis Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Culver Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Otter Creek Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Big Hollow Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Continue List (223 more) ...
- St. Paul Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- St. Barnabas Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- St. Aloysius Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Black Hawk had a population of 78 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Black Hawk, with the one closest to Black Hawk listed first.
- Leland
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Leland is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
- Cassell
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Cassell is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassell
- Denzer
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Denzer is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denzer
- Plain
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Plain is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
- Population from the 2020 Census: 765 people
- Arena
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Arena is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 831 people
- Helena
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Helena is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Spring Green
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Spring Green is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Green
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,630 people
- Mazomanie
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mazomanie is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mazomanie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,715 people
- Sauk City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Sauk City is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,498 people
- Prairie du Sac village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- 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
- Black Earth
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Black Earth is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Earth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,422 people
- Roxbury
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Roxbury is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Wyoming
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Wyoming is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyoming
- Loganville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Loganville is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 297 people
- North Freedom
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- North Freedom is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Freedom
- Population from the 2020 Census: 690 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Black Hawk. See our List of 1890's Communities around Black Hawk.
Newspapers Published in Black Hawk ...
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 169 newspapers that have been published in the area around Black Hawk.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Black Hawk, 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 Black Hawk.
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 helpful 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 Black Hawk:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Sauk County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Adams County
- Columbia County
- Dane County
- Grant County
- Iowa County
- Juneau County
- Richland 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 Black Hawk, 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- Black Hawk) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |