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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 Harmony Grove (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 Harmony Grove. 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 Harmony Grove ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Harmony Grove: Harmony Grv.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Harmony Grove. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Harmony Grove.

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.

Harmony Grove is located in Columbia 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 Columbia County: Adams, Dane, Dodge, Green Lake, Juneau, Marquette & Sauk.

Below are the counties that are near Harmony Grove. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Harmony Grove:

  • Columbia County     (The home county of Harmony Grove)
  • Adams County
  • Dane County
  • Dodge County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harmony Grove, with the one closest to Harmony Grove listed first.
    • Randolph
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Randolph is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,738 people
    • Astico
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Green Lake County
  • Iowa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harmony Grove, with the one closest to Harmony Grove listed first.
    • Cassell
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Arena
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Helena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Barneveld
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Barneveld is located in Iowa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barneveld
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,252 people
    • Hyde
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Jefferson County
  • Juneau County
    • Lyndon Station
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Lyndon Station is located in Juneau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon Station
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
  • Marquette County
  • Sauk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harmony Grove, with the one closest to Harmony Grove listed first.
    • Merrimac
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Merrimac is located in Sauk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrimac
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 441 people
    • Moon Valley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Prairie du Sac village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sauk City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Sauk City is located in Sauk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,498 people
    • Baraboo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • West Baraboo
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • West Baraboo is located in Sauk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Baraboo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,416 people
    • Denzer
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • North Freedom
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • North Freedom is located in Sauk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Freedom
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 690 people
    • Witwen
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Lake Delton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Leland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Rock Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Rock Springs is located in Sauk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
    • Loganville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Harmony Grove, see our County-by-County Page for Harmony Grove.

Cemeteries Near Harmony Grove ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harmony Grove.

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 Harmony Grove - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Harmony Grove covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Harmony Grove, with the one closest to Harmony Grove listed first.

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.<2>

While we didn't find Harmony Grove in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Harmony Grove.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Harmony Grove, with the one closest to Harmony Grove listed first.

  • Okee
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Lodi
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Dekorra
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Dekorra is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dekorra
  • Poynette
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Dane
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Dane is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dane
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,134 people
  • Arlington
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Roxbury
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Roxbury is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury
  • Lowville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Lowville is located in Columbia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowville
  • Prairie du Sac village
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Sauk City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sauk City is located in Sauk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sauk City
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,498 people
  • Norway Grove
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Norway Grove is located in Dane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norway Grove
  • Morrisonville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Leeds
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Leeds is located in Columbia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeds
    • North Leeds
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Springfield Corners
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Springfield Corners is located in Dane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield Corners

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Harmony Grove. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harmony Grove.

Newspapers Published in Harmony Grove ...

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 173 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harmony Grove.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harmony Grove, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Harmony Grove.

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 Harmony Grove:

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>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 Harmony Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Harmony Grove) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.