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A visit to the Portage Prairie 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 Portage Prairie Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Portage Prairie Cemetery (FG ID #88764)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused 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 Portage Prairie Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Portage Prairie Cemetery

Lat:   43.5895°   (43° 35' 22")

Lon:   -89.1280°   (-89° 7' 40")

The Portage Prairie Cemetery is located in Columbia County<2>.

The county seat for Columbia County is located in Portage. Portage lies 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> to the west of the Portage Prairie Cemetery .

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 21 that are within 10 miles [16.1 km] of the Portage Prairie Cemetery.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Portage Prairie Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 18 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Portage Prairie Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Portage Prairie Cemetery, with the nearest first.

  • Cambria
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Friesland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friesland have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friesland
    • Friesland is located in Columbia County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 341 people
  • Randolph
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Randolph have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
    • Randolph is located in Dodge County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,738 people
  • Kingston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Pardeeville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pardeeville have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pardeeville
    • Pardeeville is located in Columbia County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,053 people
  • Fox Lake
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fox Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
    • Fox Lake is located in Dodge County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,440 people
  • Marquette
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marquette have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marquette
    • Marquette is located in Green Lake County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
  • Markesan
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Markesan have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markesan
    • Markesan is located in Green Lake County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,389 people
  • Wyocena
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Rio
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rio have been provided by the GNIS.<5> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
    • Rio is located in Columbia County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,047 people
  • Doylestown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Englewood
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...

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 Portage Prairie Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Columbia County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Portage Prairie Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Beaver Dam
  • Cambria
    • Cambria lies 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the South Southeast (SSE) of the Portage Prairie Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Cambria.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambria
  • Columbus
  • Fairwater
  • Fall River
  • Fox Lake
  • Kingston
  • Markesan
  • Montello
  • Pardeeville
  • Portage
  • Poynette
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Continue List   (5 more)
    • Randolph
    • Rio
      • Rio lies 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the South Southwest (SSW) of the Portage Prairie Cemetery.
      • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Rio.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
    • Waupun
    • Wyocena

Websites to help with your research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Portage Prairie Cemetery:

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 Portage Prairie Cemetery:

  • Referenced GNIS Record ...
  • GNIS ID #1571802  (Portage Prairie Cemetery)
    • Note: GNIS record #1571802 has been archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website.
    • Class: cemetery         Map Name: Sand Spring Creek
    • County: Columbia         Elev: 305
    • Location given for GNIS #1571802 (Portage Prairie Cemetery)
  • Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry:  #88764

The official website for Columbia County: www.co.columbia.wi.us/

The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/

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 Columbia, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Portage Prairie Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.5895, Longitude: -89.1280    
<4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<5>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.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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