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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 Johnson Creek (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 Johnson Creek. 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 Johnson Creek ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Johnson Creek: Johnson Crk. (or less commonly used: Johnson Ck. or Johnson Cr.)

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

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 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.

Johnson Creek is located in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Dane, Dodge, Rock, Walworth & Waukesha.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Johnson Creek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Johnson Creek.

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 Johnson Creek - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Church Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • St. John Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Union Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Farmington Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Whitney Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Aztalan Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Farmington Concord Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Rock River Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Union Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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    • Pioneer Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • St. Stephens Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Pipersville Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 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.<1>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Johnson Creek had a population of 176 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Johnson Creek had a population of 3,065 people.

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

  • Jefferson Junction
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Jefferson Junction is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Junction
  • Milford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Aztalan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Aztalan is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aztalan
  • Jefferson
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jefferson is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,037 people
  • Helenville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Farmington
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Lake Mills
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Lake Mills is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Mills
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,014 people
  • Pipersville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Pipersville is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pipersville
  • Concord
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Concord is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord
  • Rome
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Rome is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome
  • Hubbleton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Hubbleton is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hubbleton
  • Fort Atkinson
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Ixonia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Ixonia is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ixonia
    • Hebron
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Hebron is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
    • Richwood
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Richwood is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richwood

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

Newspapers Published in Johnson Creek ...

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 129 newspapers that have been published in the area around Johnson Creek.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Johnson Creek, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Johnson Creek.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Johnson Creek:

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 Johnson Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Johnson Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.