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 Keyesville (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 Keyesville. 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 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.
Keyesville is located in Richland 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 Richland County: Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Sauk & Vernon.
Below are the counties that are near Keyesville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Keyesville:
- Richland County (The home county of Keyesville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Bear Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bear Valley is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Valley
- Neptune
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Neptune is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune
- Ithaca
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Ithaca is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ithaca
- Aubrey
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Aubrey is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aubrey
- Sextonville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Sextonville is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextonville
- Richland Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Richland Center is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,949 people
- Lone Rock
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Lone Rock is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Rock
- Population from the 2020 Census: 835 people
- Hub City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hub City is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub City
- Cazenovia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Cazenovia is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cazenovia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
- Gillingham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Gillingham is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillingham
- Woodstock
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Woodstock is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
- Balmoral
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Balmoral is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balmoral
- Boaz
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Boaz is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boaz
- Population from the 2020 Census: 148 people
- Columbia County
- Wisconsin Dells
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wisconsin Dells is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisconsin Dells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,061 people
- Crawford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Soldiers Grove
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Soldiers Grove is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soldiers Grove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 535 people
- Bell Center
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Bell Center is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 114 people
- Dane County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Mazomanie
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Mazomanie is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mazomanie
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,715 people
- Black Earth
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Black Earth is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Earth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,422 people
- Elvers
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Elvers is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elvers
- Marxville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Marxville is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marxville
- Blue Mounds
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Blue Mounds is located in Dane County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mounds
- Population from the 2020 Census: 990 people
- Grant County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Muscoda
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Muscoda is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscoda
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,236 people
- Blue River
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Blue River is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue River
- Population from the 2020 Census: 418 people
- Montfort
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Montfort is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montfort
- Population from the 2020 Census: 675 people
- Boscobel
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Boscobel is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boscobel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,134 people
- Preston
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Preston is located in Grant County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preston
- Iowa County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Avoca
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Avoca is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avoca
- Population from the 2020 Census: 620 people
- Helena
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Helena is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Arena
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Arena is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 831 people
- Cassell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Cassell is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassell
- Highland
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Highland is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 826 people
- Pleasant Ridge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Pleasant Ridge is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
- Hyde
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hyde is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyde
- Centreville ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Centreville is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centreville
- Former name for Centreville:
- Dry Bone
- Edmund
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Edmund is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmund
- Cobb
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Cobb is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobb
- Population from the 2020 Census: 455 people
- Dodgeville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Dodgeville is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodgeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,677 people
- Ridgeway
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ridgeway is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeway
- Population from the 2020 Census: 635 people
- Barneveld
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Barneveld is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barneveld
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,252 people
- Juneau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Wonewoc
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Wonewoc is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wonewoc
- Population from the 2020 Census: 789 people
- Union Center
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Union Center is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
- Elroy
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Elroy is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elroy
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
- Lyndon Station
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lyndon Station is located in Juneau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyndon Station
- Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
- Sauk County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Sandusky
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Sandusky is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandusky
- Lime Ridge
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Lime Ridge is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lime Ridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
- Plain
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Plain is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
- Population from the 2020 Census: 765 people
- Loganville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Loganville is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 297 people
- Leland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Leland is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
- Spring Green
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Spring Green is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Green
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,630 people
- Ironton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Ironton is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ironton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 251 people
- Denzer
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Denzer is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denzer
- Witwen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Witwen is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Witwen
- La Valle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- La Valle is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Valle
- Population from the 2020 Census: 360 people
- Reedsburg
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Reedsburg is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedsburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,500 people
- Rock Springs
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Rock Springs is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
- North Freedom
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- North Freedom is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Freedom
- Population from the 2020 Census: 690 people
- Vernon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Hillsboro
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Hillsboro is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,387 people
- White City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- White City is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- La Farge
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- La Farge is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Farge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 763 people
- Trippville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Trippville is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trippville
- Mount Tabor
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Mount Tabor is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Tabor
- Liberty
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Liberty is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
- Readstown
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Readstown is located in Vernon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Readstown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 414 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Keyesville, see our County-by-County Page for Keyesville.
Cemeteries Near Keyesville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Keyesville.
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 Keyesville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Keyesville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- St. Marys Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Ward Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- St. Killian Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- St. Pauls Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Neptune Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Valley Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bear Valley Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Sextonville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Blakeslee Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Pine River Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Loyd Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- St. Pauls Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (228 more) ...
- St. Pauls Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Eiffmeyer Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
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 Keyesville had a population of 72 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Keyesville, with the one closest to Keyesville listed first.
- Bear Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bear Valley is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Valley
- Neptune
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Neptune is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune
- Ithaca
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Ithaca is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ithaca
- Loyd
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Loyd is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyd
- Sextonville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Sextonville is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sextonville
- Sandusky
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Sandusky is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandusky
- Twin Bluffs
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Twin Bluffs is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Bluffs
- Gotham
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Gotham is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gotham
- Richland Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Richland Center is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland Center
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,949 people
- Plain
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Plain is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plain
- Population from the 2020 Census: 765 people
- Lime Ridge
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Lime Ridge is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lime Ridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
- Buck Creek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Buck Creek is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Creek
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Rockbridge
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Rockbridge is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockbridge
- Avoca
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Avoca is located in Iowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avoca
- Population from the 2020 Census: 620 people
- Loganville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Loganville is located in Sauk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loganville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 297 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Keyesville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Keyesville.
Newspapers Published in Keyesville ...
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 162 newspapers that have been published in the area around Keyesville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Keyesville, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Keyesville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Keyesville:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Richland County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Columbia County
- Crawford County
- Dane County
- Grant County
- Iowa County
- Juneau County
- Sauk County
- Vernon 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 Keyesville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | 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- Keyesville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |