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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Kurth. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Kurth to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Kurth, please Contact Us.
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 Kurth (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 Kurth. 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 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Kurth is historic, it would have been located within present day Clark County.
To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Clark County: Chippewa, Eau Claire, Jackson, Marathon, Taylor & Wood.
Below are the counties that are near Kurth. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kurth:
- Clark County (The home county of Kurth)
- The following are listed by their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Granton
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granton
- Granton is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 343 people
- Neillsville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Neillsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neillsville
- Neillsville is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,375 people
- Chili
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chili
- Chili is located in Clark County
- Globe
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest) - Spokeville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokeville
- Spokeville is located in Clark County
- Veefkind
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast) - Loyal
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north) - Greenwood
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Greenwood is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 995 people
- Willard
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
- Willard is located in Clark County
- Riplinger
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riplinger
- Riplinger is located in Clark County
- Humbird
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humbird
- Humbird is located in Clark County
- Atwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwood
- Atwood is located in Clark County
- Colby
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Crawford County
- Lynxville
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Lynxville
- Eau Claire County
- The following are listed by their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Fairchild
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west) - Hay Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hay Creek
- Hay Creek is located in Eau Claire County
- Jackson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Pray
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pray
- Pray is located in Jackson County
- Hatfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatfield
- Hatfield is located in Jackson County
- City Point
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for City Point. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for City Point
- City Point is located in Jackson County
- Merrillan
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest) - Lapham Junction
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lapham Junction. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapham Junction
- Lapham Junction is located in Jackson County
- Alma Center
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alma Center have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma Center
- Alma Center is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 491 people
- Black River Falls
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black River Falls
- Black River Falls is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,454 people
- Millston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millston
- Millston is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 162 people
- Hixton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hixton
- Hixton is located in Jackson County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 417 people
- Sechlerville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sechlerville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sechlerville
- Sechlerville is located in Jackson County
- Levis
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Marathon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Spencer
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
- Spencer is located in Marathon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,865 people
- McMillan
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast) - Unity
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast) - Rozellville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rozellville
- Rozellville is located in Marathon County
- Stratford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast) - Rangeline
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rangeline
- Rangeline is located in Marathon County
- Monroe County
- Wood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Lindsey
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsey
- Lindsey is located in Wood County
- Bakerville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakerville
- Bakerville is located in Wood County
- Marshfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshfield
- Marshfield is located in Wood County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 18,414 people
- Hewitt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hewitt
- Hewitt is located in Wood County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 777 people
- Pittsville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pittsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsville
- Pittsville is located in Wood County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 820 people
- Arpin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east) - Auburndale
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Auburndale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburndale
- Auburndale is located in Wood County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 658 people
- Vesper
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesper
- Vesper is located in Wood County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 539 people
- Blenker
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blenker
- Blenker is located in Wood County
- Sherry
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherry
- Sherry is located in Wood County
- Eight Corners
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eight Corners
- Eight Corners is located in Wood County
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Kurth, see our County-by-County Page for Kurth.
Cemeteries Near Kurth ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kurth.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kurth covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Zion Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zion Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Windfall Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Windfall Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Windfall Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Granton.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #89539 <4>
- York Center Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the York Center Cemetery
- The York Center Cemetery has also been known as:
- York Center UMC Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #89580 <4>
- Neillsville City Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Neillsville City Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #166077 <4>
- St. Marys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Lynn Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lynn Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lynn Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the west of Granton.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88382 <4>
- Pine Circle Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Circle Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Circle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Yolo Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yolo Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Yolo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Levis Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Levis Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Levis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- East Side Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Side Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Side Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- North Pine Valley Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Pine Valley Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Pine Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Weston Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Weston Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Weston Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (110 more) ...
- Dells Dam Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dells Dam Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dells Dam Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Sherwood Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sherwood Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sherwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Rock Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Dells Dam Cemetery
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.
While we didn't find Kurth in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kurth.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Kurth, with the one closest to Kurth listed first.
- Granton
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granton
- Granton is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 343 people
- Neillsville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Neillsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neillsville
- Neillsville is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,375 people
- Lynn
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east) - Shortville
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shortville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shortville
- Shortville is located in Clark County
- Christie
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest) - Nevins
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast) - Lindsey
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsey
- Lindsey is located in Wood County
- Globe
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest) - Veefkind
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast) - Spokeville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spokeville
- Spokeville is located in Clark County
- Loyal
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north) - Waterbury
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south) - Continue List (14 more) ...
- Pray
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pray
- Pray is located in Jackson County
- Greenwood
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Greenwood is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 995 people
- Bakerville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakerville
- Bakerville is located in Wood County
- Pray
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kurth. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kurth.
Newspapers Published in Kurth ...
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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kurth.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kurth, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kurth.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Kurth:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.wisconsinhistory.org/
- Pages specific to Clark County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Crawford County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Eau Claire County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Jackson County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Marathon County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Monroe County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Wood County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Crawford County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Clark County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Clark County
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Clark County: www.co.clark.wi.us/
The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/
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 Kurth, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <3> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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- Kurth) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kurth. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5741, Longitude: -90.4968 In this case, the coordinates for Kurth have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |