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 Coppens Corner (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 Coppens Corner. 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.
Name Variations for Coppens Corner ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Coppens Corner: Coppens Cor. (or less commonly used: Coppens Crn.)
- While the name of this community is Coppens Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Coppens Corner may originally have been Coppen's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Coppens Corner might be written as Coppen Corner.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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.
Coppens Corner is located in Brown 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 Brown County: Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Oconto, Outagamie & Shawano.
Below are the counties that are near Coppens Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Coppens Corner:
- Brown County (The home county of Coppens Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Sugar Bush
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Sugar Bush is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Bush
- Poland
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Poland is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poland
- Pine Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Pine Grove is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
- Fontenoy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Fontenoy is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontenoy
- Bellevue
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Bellevue is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,030 people
- Denmark
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Denmark is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denmark
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,271 people
- Bay Settlement
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Bay Settlement is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Settlement
- Wequiock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Wequiock is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wequiock
- Glenmore
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Glenmore is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenmore
- Bellevue Town
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bellevue Town is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue Town
- Preble
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Preble is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preble
- Benderville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Benderville is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benderville
- Allouez
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Allouez is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allouez
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,784 people
- Calumet County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Brillion
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Brillion is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brillion
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,079 people
- Forest Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Forest Junction is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Junction
- Dundas
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Dundas is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundas
- Kaukauna
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Kaukauna is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaukauna
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,356 people
- Hilbert
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hilbert is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilbert
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,081 people
- Potter
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Potter is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 236 people
- Saint John
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Saint John is located in Calumet County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John
- Door County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Rosiere
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Rosiere is located in Door County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosiere
- Namur
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Namur is located in Door County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Namur
- Brussels
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Brussels is located in Door County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brussels
- Forestville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Forestville is located in Door County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 408 people
- Little Sturgeon
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Little Sturgeon is located in Door County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Sturgeon
- Salona
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Salona is located in Door County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salona
- Kewaunee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Pilsen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Pilsen is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilsen
- Ellisville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Ellisville is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellisville
- Stangelville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Stangelville is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stangelville
- Krok
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Krok is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krok
- Luxemburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Luxemburg is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,577 people
- Curran
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Curran is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curran
- Bolt
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Bolt is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolt
- Casco
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Casco is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casco
- Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
- Kewaunee
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Kewaunee is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kewaunee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,835 people
- Duvall
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Duvall is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duvall
- Euren
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Euren is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euren
- Gregorville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Gregorville is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregorville
- Algoma
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Algoma is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,038 people
- Manitowoc County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Zander
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Zander is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zander
- Hickory Grove
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Hickory Grove is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Grove
- Maribel
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Maribel is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maribel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 330 people
- Rosecrans
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Rosecrans is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosecrans
- Tisch Mills
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Tisch Mills is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tisch Mills
- Larrabee
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Larrabee is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larrabee
- Melnik
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Melnik is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melnik
- Fisherville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Fisherville is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisherville
- Kellnersville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Kellnersville is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellnersville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 317 people
- Menchalville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Menchalville is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menchalville
- Mishicot
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Mishicot is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mishicot
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,389 people
- Francis Creek
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Francis Creek is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Francis Creek
- Population from the 2020 Census: 638 people
- Kingsbridge
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Kingsbridge is located in Manitowoc County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsbridge
- Oconto County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Pensaukee
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Pensaukee is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pensaukee
- Chase
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Chase is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
- Oconto
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Oconto is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconto
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,575 people
- Krakow
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Krakow is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krakow
- Stiles Junction
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Stiles Junction is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stiles Junction
- Outagamie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Chicago Corners
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Chicago Corners is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicago Corners
- Freedom
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Freedom is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
- Seymour
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Seymour is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seymour
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,457 people
- Little Chute
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Little Chute is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Chute
- Population from the 2020 Census: 12,164 people
- Combined Locks
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Combined Locks is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Combined Locks
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,607 people
- Kimberly
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Kimberly is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,869 people
- Apple Creek
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Apple Creek is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Creek
- Shawano County
- The following are listed by their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Laney
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Laney is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laney
- Rose Lawn
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Rose Lawn is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Lawn
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Coppens Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Coppens Corner.
Cemeteries Near Coppens Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coppens Corner.
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 Coppens Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Coppens Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- St. Anna Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Pilsen.
- The St. Joseph Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Therese Parish Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2334211 <2>
- St. Josephs Catholic Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- St. Wenceslaus Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Huberts Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Lilly Lake Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Humboldt Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- St. Kilian Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Zion Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (207 more) ...
- Montpelier Twp. Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Eastside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- St. Lawrence Catholic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 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.<3>
While we didn't find Coppens Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Coppens Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Coppens Corner, with the one closest to Coppens Corner listed first.
- Henrysville
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Henrysville is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henrysville
- Poland
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Poland is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poland
- Pilsen
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Pilsen is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilsen
- Ellisville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Ellisville is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellisville
- Pine Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Pine Grove is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
- New Franken
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- New Franken is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Franken
- Fontenoy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Fontenoy is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontenoy
- Stangelville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Stangelville is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stangelville
- Walhain
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Walhain is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walhain
- Denmark
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Denmark is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denmark
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,271 people
- Curran
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Curran is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curran
- Krok
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Krok is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krok
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Luxemburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Luxemburg is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxemburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,577 people
- Glenmore
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Glenmore is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenmore
- Bolt
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Bolt is located in Kewaunee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolt
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Coppens Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Coppens Corner.
Newspapers Published in Coppens Corner ...
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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Coppens Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coppens Corner, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Coppens Corner.
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 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 Coppens Corner:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Brown County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Calumet County
- Door County
- Kewaunee County
- Manitowoc County
- Oconto County
- Outagamie County
- Shawano County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Coppens Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Coppens Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |