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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 Moose Junction (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 Moose Junction. 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 Moose Junction ...

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 Moose Junction: Moose Jct. (or less commonly used: Moose Jctn.)

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Moose Junction is located in Douglas 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 Douglas County: Carlton (MN), Pine (MN), Saint Louis (MN), Bayfield, Burnett, Sawyer & Washburn.

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

  • Douglas County     (The home county of Moose Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moose Junction, with the one closest to Moose Junction listed first.
    • Solon Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Solon Springs is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 604 people
    • Sauntry
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Dedham
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Bennett
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Bennett is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
    • Hawthorne
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Saunders
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • South Range
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Oliver
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Oliver is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oliver
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 416 people
    • Superior Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Superior Village is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Superior Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 713 people
    • Lake Nebagamon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Lake Nebagamon is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Nebagamon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,064 people
    • Poplar
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Superior
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Burnett County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moose Junction, with the one closest to Moose Junction listed first.
    • Webb Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Webster
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Webster is located in Burnett County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 620 people
  • Washburn County
    • Minong
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Minong is located in Washburn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
  • Carlton County (MN)
  • Pine County (MN)
  • Saint Louis County (MN)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moose Junction, with the one closest to Moose Junction listed first.
    • New Duluth
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Gary
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Gary is located in Saint Louis County (MN)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gary

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

Cemeteries Near Moose Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Moose Junction.

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 Moose Junction - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Moose Junction, with the one closest to Moose Junction 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 Moose Junction in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Moose Junction.

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

  • Holyoke
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Sauntry
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Dedham
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Minong
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Minong is located in Washburn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
  • Hawthorne
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Kerrick
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Boylston
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Boylston is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boylston
  • South Range
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Pokegama
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Pokegama is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pokegama
  • Cutter
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Cutter is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutter
  • New Duluth
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Fond du Lac
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Fond du Lac is located in Saint Louis County (MN)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fond du Lac
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Poplar
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • South Superior
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • South Superior is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Superior
    • Itasca
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Itasca is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Itasca

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

Newspapers Published in Moose Junction ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Moose Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Moose Junction, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Moose Junction.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Moose Junction:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Moose Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Moose Junction) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.