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 Bruce (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 Bruce. 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 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.
Bruce is located in Rusk County.
To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Rusk County: Barron, Chippewa, Price, Sawyer, Taylor & Washburn.
Below are the counties that are near Bruce. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bruce:
- Rusk County (The home county of Bruce)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Apollonia
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apollonia
- Apollonia is located in Rusk County
- Port Arthur
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Arthur
- Port Arthur is located in Rusk County
- Weyerhaeuser
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weyerhaeuser have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyerhaeuser
- Weyerhaeuser is located in Rusk County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
- Ladysmith
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east) - Conrath
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast) - Strickland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strickland
- Strickland is located in Rusk County
- Tony
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east) - Glen Flora
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glen Flora have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Flora
- Glen Flora is located in Rusk County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
- Sheldon
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast) - Ingram
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east) - Hawkins
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Barron County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Chetek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Rice Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Cameron
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Haugen
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest) - Barron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barron
- Barron is located in Barron County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,235 people
- Dallas
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Chippewa County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Cornell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south) - New Auburn
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Auburn
- New Auburn is located in Chippewa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 576 people
- Bloomer
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomer
- Bloomer is located in Chippewa County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,508 people
- Drywood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drywood
- Drywood is located in Chippewa County
- Eagleton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleton
- Eagleton is located in Chippewa County
- Sawyer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Exeland
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north) - Radisson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north) - Couderay
(23 miles [37 km] to the north) - Winter
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter
- Winter is located in Sawyer County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
- Reserve
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reserve
- Reserve is located in Sawyer County
- Stone Lake
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Lake
- Stone Lake is located in Sawyer County
- New Post
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Post
- New Post is located in Sawyer County
- Taylor County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Jump River
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jump River
- Jump River is located in Taylor County
- Gilman
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilman
- Gilman is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
- Washburn County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Birchwood
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest) - Nobleton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Madge
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madge
- Madge is located in Washburn County
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bruce, see our County-by-County Page for Bruce.
Newspapers Published in Bruce ...
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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bruce.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bruce, 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 Bruce.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Bruce:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.wisconsinhistory.org/
- Pages specific to Rusk County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Barron County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Chippewa County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Sawyer County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Taylor County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Washburn County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Barron County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Rusk County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
Cemeteries Near Bruce ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bruce.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bruce covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Bruce Protestant Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bruce Protestant Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bruce Protestant Cemetery
- Apollonia Protestant Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Apollonia Protestant Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Apollonia Protestant Cemetery
- Apollonia Catholic Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Apollonia Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Apollonia Catholic Cemetery
- St. Marys Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #89101 <3>
- Blue Hills Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Blue Hills Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Blue Hills Cemetery
- St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St.s Peter & Paul Cemetery
- Weyerhauser Protestant Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Weyerhauser Protestant Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Weyerhauser Protestant Cemetery
- Servants of Mary Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Servants of Mary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Servants of Mary Cemetery
- Old Ladysmith Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Ladysmith Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Ladysmith Cemetery
- Riverside Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
- St. Anns Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anns Cemetery
- Polish Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Polish Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Polish Cemetery
- Continue List (76 more) ...
- Island Lake Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Island Lake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Island Lake Cemetery
- Mud Lake Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mud Lake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mud Lake Cemetery
- St. Francis Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Francis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Francis Cemetery
- Island Lake Cemetery
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 Bruce in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bruce.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bruce, with the one closest to Bruce listed first.
- Lehigh
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Canton
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Chetek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest) - Rice Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Cameron
(23 miles [37 km] to the west) - Nobleton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Haugen
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest) - Huron
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast) - Sand Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sand Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Creek
- Sand Creek is located in Dunn County
- Eagleton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleton
- Eagleton is located in Chippewa County
- Drywood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drywood
- Drywood is located in Chippewa County
- Barron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barron
- Barron is located in Barron County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,235 people
- Reserve
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reserve
- Reserve is located in Sawyer County
- Dallas
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bruce. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bruce.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Bruce. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Rusk County: www.ruskcounty.org/
The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <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- Bruce) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bruce. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.4586, Longitude: -91.2729 In this case, the coordinates for Bruce have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <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 Bruce, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |