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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 Madge (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 Madge. 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 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.

Madge is located in Washburn 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 Washburn County: Barron, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Rusk & Sawyer.

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

  • Washburn County     (The home county of Madge)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Madge, with the one closest to Madge listed first.
    • Nobleton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Spooner
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Shell Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Birchwood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Birchwood is located in Washburn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 426 people
    • Earl
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Minong
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Minong is located in Washburn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
  • Barron County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Madge, with the one closest to Madge listed first.
    • Haugen
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Haugen is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haugen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
    • Rice Lake
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Rice Lake is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,498 people
    • Cumberland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Cumberland is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,097 people
    • Cameron
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Cameron is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameron
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,798 people
    • Barron
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Poskin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Almena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Almena is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almena
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 638 people
    • Chetek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Chetek is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chetek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,094 people
    • Hillsdale
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Twin Town
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Twin Town is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Town
  • Burnett County
  • Polk County
  • Rusk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Madge, with the one closest to Madge listed first.
    • Strickland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Weyerhaeuser
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Weyerhaeuser is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyerhaeuser
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
    • Apollonia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bruce
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bruce is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruce
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 688 people
  • Sawyer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Madge, with the one closest to Madge listed first.
    • Stone Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Reserve
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Couderay
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Couderay is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couderay
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Hayward
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Hayward is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
    • Chief Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Chief Lake is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chief Lake
    • Little Round Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Little Round Lake is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Round Lake
    • Exeland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Exeland is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 190 people
    • Radisson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Radisson is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radisson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
    • Phipps
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • New Post
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Madge ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Madge.

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 Madge - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Madge, with the one closest to Madge 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>

While we didn't find Madge in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Madge.

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

  • Nobleton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Haugen
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Haugen is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haugen
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
  • Spooner
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Shell Lake
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Barronett
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Barronett is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barronett
  • Bashaw
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Rice Lake
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Rice Lake is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,498 people
  • Reserve
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Cumberland
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cumberland is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,097 people
  • Hayward
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hayward is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
  • Canton
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Canton is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
  • Lehigh
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Lehigh is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lehigh
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Cameron
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Cameron is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameron
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,798 people
    • Minong
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Minong is located in Washburn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
    • Barron
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Madge ...

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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Madge.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Madge, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<1>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Madge.

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 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 Madge:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Madge) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Madge, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.