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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 Horns Corners (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 Horns Corners. 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 Horns Corners ...

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 Horns Corners: Horns Cors.
  • While the name of this community is Horns Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Horns Corners may originally have been Horn's Corners.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Horns Corners might be written as Horn Corners.

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Horns Corners is located in Ozaukee 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 Ozaukee County: Milwaukee, Sheboygan, Washington & Waukesha.

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

  • Ozaukee County     (The home county of Horns Corners)
  • Dodge County
  • Fond du Lac County
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horns Corners, with the one closest to Horns Corners listed first.
    • Lac La Belle
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Lac La Belle is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lac La Belle
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 302 people
    • Lake Lac La Belle
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Lake Lac La Belle is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lac La Belle
  • Milwaukee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horns Corners, with the one closest to Horns Corners listed first.
    • Brown Deer
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Brown Deer is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Deer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,191 people
    • River Hills
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • River Hills is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,575 people
    • Bayside
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Bayside is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayside
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,326 people
    • West Granville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Fox Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Fox Point is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Point
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,628 people
    • Glendale
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Glendale is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,775 people
    • Whitefish Bay
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Shorewood
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Shorewood is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shorewood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,117 people
    • Wauwatosa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Milwaukee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • West Allis
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • West Milwaukee
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • West Milwaukee is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Milwaukee
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,090 people
  • Sheboygan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horns Corners, with the one closest to Horns Corners listed first.
    • Random Lake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Cedar Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Sheboygan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,115 people
    • Adell
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Adell is located in Sheboygan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 508 people
    • Cascade
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Oostburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Waldo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Ourtown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Plymouth
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Sheboygan Falls
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Kohler
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Washington County
  • Waukesha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Horns Corners, with the one closest to Horns Corners listed first.
    • Menomonee Falls
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Fussville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Fussville is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fussville
    • Lannon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Lannon is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lannon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,284 people
    • Butler
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Butler is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,795 people
    • Sussex
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Brookfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Brookfield is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 39,164 people
    • Elm Grove
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Merton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Merton is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,812 people
    • Pewaukee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Pewaukee is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pewaukee
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,099 people
    • Pewaukee
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Pewaukee is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pewaukee
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,703 people
    • Calhoun
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Calhoun is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calhoun
    • Chenequa
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Chenequa is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chenequa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people

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

Cemeteries Near Horns Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Horns Corners.

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 Horns Corners - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Horns Corners, with the one closest to Horns Corners 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Horns Corners had a population of 37 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Horns Corners ...

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 302 newspapers that have been published in the area around Horns Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Horns Corners, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Horns Corners.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Horns Corners:

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 Horns Corners, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Horns Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.