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 Hollister (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 Hollister. 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 northwest 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 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.
Hollister is located in Langlade 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 Langlade County: Forest, Lincoln, Marathon, Menominee, Oconto, Oneida & Shawano.
Below are the counties that are near Hollister. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hollister:
- Langlade County (The home county of Hollister)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Langlade
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Langlade is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langlade
- Lily
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Lily is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
- White Lake
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- White Lake is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 353 people
- Freeman
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Freeman is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
- Bryant
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Bryant is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryant
- Phlox
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Phlox is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phlox
- Deerbrook
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Deerbrook is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerbrook
- Neva Corners
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Neva Corners is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neva Corners
- Kempster
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Kempster is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempster
- Post Lake
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Post Lake is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Lake
- Antigo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Antigo is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antigo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,719 people
- Elcho
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Elcho is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elcho
- Forest County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Padus
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Padus is located in Forest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padus
- Mole Lake
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Mole Lake is located in Forest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mole Lake
- Laona
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Laona is located in Forest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laona
- Crandon
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Crandon is located in Forest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,780 people
- Atkins
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Atkins is located in Forest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkins
- Menominee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Zoar
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Zoar is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zoar
- Neopit
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Neopit is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neopit
- Keshena
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Keshena is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keshena
- Legend Lake
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Legend Lake is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legend Lake
- Oconto County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Townsend
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Townsend is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Townsend
- Mountain
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Mountain is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain
- Population from the 2020 Census: 851 people
- Armstrong
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Armstrong is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
- Breed
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Breed is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breed
- Suring
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Suring is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suring
- Population from the 2020 Census: 524 people
- Frostville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Frostville is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frostville
- Oneida County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Jennings
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jennings is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennings
- Pelican Lake
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pelican Lake is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelican Lake
- Monico
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Monico is located in Oneida County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monico
- Shawano County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Mattoon
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mattoon is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattoon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 412 people
- Middle Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Middle Village is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Village
- Almon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Almon is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almon
- Aniwa
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Aniwa is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aniwa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
- Regina
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Regina is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Regina
- Gresham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Gresham is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gresham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 563 people
- Bowler
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Bowler is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowler
- Population from the 2020 Census: 286 people
- Birnamwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Birnamwood is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birnamwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 772 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hollister, see our County-by-County Page for Hollister.
Cemeteries Near Hollister ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hollister.
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 Hollister - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hollister covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Brown Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Lily Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily Cemetery
- The Lily Cemetery has also been known as:
- Langlade Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88338 <1>
- Langlade Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langlade Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Langlade Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Langlade.
- The Langlade Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wolf River Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1558148 <1>
- St. James Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- St. James Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Sherry Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Bent Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Forest Home Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Home Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Forest Home Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Townsend.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #87959 <1>
- Lakeview Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Roseland Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Pearson Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (54 more) ...
- St. Ambrose Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Trinity Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Neva Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
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 Hollister in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hollister.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hollister, with the one closest to Hollister listed first.
- Lily
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Lily is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lily
- Elton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Elton is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
- Bryant
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Bryant is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryant
- Mountain
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Mountain is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain
- Population from the 2020 Census: 851 people
- Phlox
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Phlox is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phlox
- Deerbrook
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Deerbrook is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerbrook
- Kempster
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Kempster is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempster
- Antigo
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Antigo is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antigo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,719 people
- Post Lake
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Post Lake is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Lake
- Koepenick
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Koepenick is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koepenick
- Breed
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Breed is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breed
- Summit Lake
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Summit Lake is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Lake
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Logan
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Logan is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Elmhurst
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Elmhurst is located in Langlade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmhurst
- Crandon
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Crandon is located in Forest County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crandon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,780 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hollister. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hollister.
Newspapers Published in Hollister ...
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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hollister.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hollister, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hollister.
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 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 Hollister:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Langlade County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Forest County
- Menominee County
- Oconto County
- Oneida County
- Shawano County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
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 Hollister, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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- Hollister) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |