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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Harmon. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Harmon to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Harmon, 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 Harmon (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 Harmon. 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 and hospitals 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Harmon is historic, it would have been located within present day Washburn 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 Washburn County: Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Rusk & Sawyer.
Below are the counties that are near Harmon. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Harmon:
- Washburn County (The home county of Harmon)
- The following are listed by their distance from Harmon, with the one closest to Harmon listed first.
- Minong
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Minong is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
- Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
- Earl
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Earl is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earl
- Spooner
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Spooner is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spooner
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,553 people
- Madge
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Madge is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madge
- Shell Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Shell Lake is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,318 people
- Nobleton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Nobleton is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nobleton
- Birchwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Birchwood is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 426 people
- Bayfield County
- Cable
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cable is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cable
- Burnett County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harmon, with the one closest to Harmon listed first.
- Webb Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Webb Lake is located in Burnett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb Lake
- Bashaw
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bashaw is located in Burnett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bashaw
- Hertel
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Hertel is located in Burnett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hertel
- Douglas County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harmon, with the one closest to Harmon listed first.
- Solon Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Solon Springs is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 604 people
- Sauntry
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Sauntry is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauntry
- Bennett
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Bennett is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
- Moose Junction
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Moose Junction is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose Junction
- Lake Nebagamon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Lake Nebagamon is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Nebagamon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,064 people
- Sawyer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harmon, with the one closest to Harmon listed first.
- Hayward
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hayward is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
- Phipps
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Phipps is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phipps
- Seeley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Seeley is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seeley
- Stone Lake
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Stone Lake is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Lake
- Little Round Lake
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Little Round Lake is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Round Lake
- Chief Lake
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Chief Lake is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chief Lake
- Reserve
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Reserve is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reserve
- Couderay
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Couderay is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couderay
- Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
- New Post
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- New Post is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Post
- Radisson
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Radisson is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radisson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Harmon, see our County-by-County Page for Harmon.
Cemeteries Near Harmon ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harmon.
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 Harmon - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Harmon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Harmon, with the one closest to Harmon listed first.
- Greenwood Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- St. Lukes Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Lampson Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Indian Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Wascott Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Earl Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earl Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Earl Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Earl.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1975084 <2>
- Trinity Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Chicog Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Riverside Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Rosewood Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Continue List (26 more) ...
- Round Lake Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Greenwood Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- St. Anne Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
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.
While we didn't find Harmon in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Harmon.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Harmon, with the one closest to Harmon listed first.
- Minong
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Minong is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
- Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
- Hayward
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Hayward is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
- Phipps
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Phipps is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phipps
- Reserve
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Reserve is located in Sawyer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reserve
- Spooner
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Spooner is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spooner
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,553 people
- Cable
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cable is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cable
- Sauntry
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Sauntry is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauntry
- Shell Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Shell Lake is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,318 people
- Nobleton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Nobleton is located in Washburn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nobleton
- Drummond
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Drummond is located in Bayfield County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drummond
- Bashaw
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bashaw is located in Burnett County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bashaw
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Harmon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harmon.
Newspapers Published in Harmon ...
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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harmon.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harmon, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Harmon.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Harmon:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Washburn County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bayfield County
- Burnett County
- Douglas County
- Sawyer 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 Harmon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Harmon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |