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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Coolidge. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Coolidge to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Coolidge, please Contact Us.
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 Coolidge (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 Coolidge. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Coolidge is historic, it would have been located within present day Price 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 Price County: Ashland, Iron, Lincoln, Oneida, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor & Vilas.
Below are the counties that are near Coolidge. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Coolidge:
- Price County (The home county of Coolidge)
- The following are listed by their distance from Coolidge, with the one closest to Coolidge listed first.
- Fifield
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Fifield is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fifield
- Lugerville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Lugerville is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lugerville
- Park Falls
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Park Falls is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
- Phillips
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Phillips is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,320 people
- Lake
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Lake is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
- Estimated population in 2015: 1,106 people
- Kennedy
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Kennedy is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennedy
- Worcester
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Worcester is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worcester
- Catawba
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Catawba is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Prentice
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Prentice is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prentice
- Population from the 2020 Census: 597 people
- Kennan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Kennan is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
- Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
- Ashland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coolidge, with the one closest to Coolidge listed first.
- Butternut
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Butternut is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butternut
- Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
- Glidden
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Glidden is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glidden
- Iron County
- Manitowish
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Manitowish is located in Iron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manitowish
- Rusk County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coolidge, with the one closest to Coolidge listed first.
- Hawkins
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Hawkins is located in Rusk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
- Population from the 2020 Census: 275 people
- Ingram
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Ingram is located in Rusk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
- Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
- Sawyer County
- Winter
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Winter is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
- Vilas County
- Lac du Flambeau
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lac du Flambeau is located in Vilas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lac du Flambeau
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Coolidge, see our County-by-County Page for Coolidge.
Cemeteries Near Coolidge ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coolidge.
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 Coolidge - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Coolidge covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Coolidge, with the one closest to Coolidge listed first.
- Forest Home Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Nola Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Lakeside Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- St. Patricks Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Harmony Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- St. Cecelia Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Emery Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Union Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Hackett Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Prentice Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Kennan Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Catawba Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Continue List (18 more) ...
- St. Marys Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Loretta Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
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.
Coolidge itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Coolidge, with the one closest to Coolidge listed first.
- Fifield
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Fifield is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fifield
- Park Falls
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Park Falls is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
- Phillips
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Phillips is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,320 people
- Butternut
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Butternut is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butternut
- Population from the 2020 Census: 351 people
- Worcester
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Worcester is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worcester
- Catawba
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Catawba is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Kennan
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Kennan is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
- Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
- Brantwood
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Brantwood is located in Price County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantwood
- Glidden
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Glidden is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glidden
- Mercer
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Mercer is located in Iron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercer
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Coolidge. See our List of 1890's Communities around Coolidge.
Newspapers Published in Coolidge ...
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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Coolidge.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coolidge, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Coolidge.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Coolidge:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Price County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Ashland County
- Iron County
- Rusk County
- Sawyer County
- Vilas County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Coolidge, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Coolidge) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |