A visit to the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Briggsville Protestant Cemetery (FG ID #1959651).
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery:
43.6601, -89.5845
The Briggsville Protestant Cemetery is located in Marquette County<2>.
The county seat for Marquette County is located in Montello. Montello lies 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> to the northeast of the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery .
Open a Google Map centered on the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 20 that are within 10 miles [16.1 km] of the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery.<4>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Briggsville Protestant Cemetery, with the nearest first.
- Greenwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Cummings Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- St. Paul Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Bach Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- The Lakeview Cemetery is located in Adams County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Cemetery
- Newport Lutheran Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- St. Michaels Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hodge Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- The Hodge Cemetery is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodge Cemetery
- Spring Grove Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- St. Marys Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Spicer Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Rood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- The Rood Cemetery is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rood Cemetery
- Kelly Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- The Kelly Cemetery is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelly Cemetery
- Oxford Village Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Calvary Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Fairfield Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- The Fairfield Cemetery is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield Cemetery
- Silver Lake Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 26 communities are within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Briggsville Protestant Cemetery, with the nearest first:
- Douglas Center
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Endeavor
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Endeavor is located in Marquette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Endeavor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 464 people
- Oxford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Wisconsin Dells
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Packwaukee
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Portage
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Delton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Plainville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Glen Oak
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Baraboo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- West Baraboo
(15 miles [24.1 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
- Durwards Glen ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Lyndon Station
(15 miles [24.1 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
- Pardeeville
(16 miles [25.7 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
- Montello
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Westfield
(16 miles [25.7 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
- Easton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Wyocena
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- North Freedom
(19 miles [30.6 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
- Merrimac
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Merrimac is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrimac
- Population from the 2020 Census: 441 people
- Lake Wisconsin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Lake Wisconsin is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wisconsin
- Harmony Grove
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Rock Springs
(20 miles [32.2 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
- Moon Valley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Okee
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Poynette
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Marquette County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Briggsville Protestant Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Baraboo
- Baraboo lies 14 miles [22.5 km]<3> to the South Southwest (SSW) of the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery.
- Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Baraboo.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baraboo
- Montello
- North Freedom
- Oxford
- Pardeeville
- Portage
- Poynette
- Rock Springs
- Westfield
- Wyocena
Websites to help with your 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 websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery:
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- Pages specific to Marquette County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Briggsville Protestant Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #1959651
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> | If you're interested in how the shape of Wisconsin's counties, including Marquette, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <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- Briggsville Protestant Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), be assured that it's not complete and we're still searching for cemeteries to add. |