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 Murat (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 Murat. 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 doctors 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.
Murat is located in Taylor 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 Taylor County: Chippewa, Clark, Lincoln, Marathon, Price & Rusk.
Below are the counties that are near Murat. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Murat:
- Taylor County (The home county of Murat)
- The following are listed by their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Medford
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medford
- Medford is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,267 people
- Perkinstown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Perkinstown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkinstown
- Perkinstown is located in Taylor County
- Chelsea
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
- Chelsea is located in Taylor County
- Stetsonville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stetsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stetsonville
- Stetsonville is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- Westboro
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westboro
- Westboro is located in Taylor County
- Hughey ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west) - Rib Lake
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rib Lake
- Rib Lake is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 861 people
- Lublin
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest) - Interwald
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Gilman
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilman
- Gilman is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
- Polley
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polley
- Polley is located in Taylor County
- Jump River
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jump River
- Jump River is located in Taylor County
- Chippewa County
- Stanley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Stanley
- Clark County
- The following are listed by their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Dorchester
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dorchester have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
- Dorchester is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people
- Curtiss
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtiss
- Curtiss is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
- Abbotsford
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Abbotsford have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbotsford
- Abbotsford is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,225 people
- Owen
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owen
- Owen is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 925 people
- Withee
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withee
- Withee is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
- Colby
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south) - Atwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwood
- Atwood is located in Clark County
- Eadsville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eadsville
- Eadsville is located in Clark County
- Thorp
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest) - Reseburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reseburg
- Reseburg is located in Clark County
- Riplinger
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riplinger
- Riplinger is located in Clark County
- Eidsvold
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eidsvold
- Eidsvold is located in Clark County
- Greenwood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Greenwood is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 995 people
- Marathon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Milan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milan
- Milan is located in Marathon County
- Athens
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athens
- Athens is located in Marathon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,079 people
- Unity
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south) - Poniatowski
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poniatowski
- Poniatowski is located in Marathon County
- Hamburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamburg
- Hamburg is located in Marathon County
- Wien
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wien
- Wien is located in Marathon County
- Edgar
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgar
- Edgar is located in Marathon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,434 people
- Emmerich
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmerich
- Emmerich is located in Marathon County
- Spencer
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
- Spencer is located in Marathon County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,865 people
- Fenwood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast) - Rib Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rib Falls
- Rib Falls is located in Marathon County
- Price County
- The following are listed by their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Catawba
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
- Catawba is located in Price County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Kennan
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north) - Prentice
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prentice
- Prentice is located in Price County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 597 people
- Rusk County
- The following are listed by their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Hawkins
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest) - Sheldon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Ingram
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest) - Glen Flora
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Glen Flora have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Flora
- Glen Flora is located in Rusk County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Murat, see our County-by-County Page for Murat.
Cemeteries Near Murat ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Murat.
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 Murat covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Molitor Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Molitor Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Molitor Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Our Saviours Lutheran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Our Saviours Lutheran Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Our Saviours Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Amish Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Amish Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Amish Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Evergreen Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Holy Rosary Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Rosary Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Rosary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- New Holy Rosary Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Holy Rosary Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Holy Rosary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Whittlesey Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whittlesey Lutheran Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whittlesey Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Whittlesey Catholic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whittlesey Catholic Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whittlesey Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Little Black Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Little Black Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Little Black Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- New Evergreen Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Evergreen Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Perkinstown Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Perkinstown Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Perkinstown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (90 more) ...
- Chelsea Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chelsea Cemetery
- St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Stetsonville Public Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stetsonville Public Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stetsonville Public Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Chelsea 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.<3>
While we didn't find Murat in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Murat.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Murat, with the one closest to Murat listed first.
- Medford
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medford
- Medford is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,267 people
- Whittlesey
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whittlesey have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whittlesey
- Whittlesey is located in Taylor County
- Little Black
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Black have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Black
- Little Black is located in Taylor County
- Perkinstown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Perkinstown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkinstown
- Perkinstown is located in Taylor County
- Chelsea
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
- Chelsea is located in Taylor County
- Stetsonville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stetsonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stetsonville
- Stetsonville is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- Westboro
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westboro
- Westboro is located in Taylor County
- Dorchester
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dorchester have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
- Dorchester is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people
- Rib Lake
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rib Lake
- Rib Lake is located in Taylor County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 861 people
- Curtiss
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtiss
- Curtiss is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
- Interwald
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east) - Withee
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withee
- Withee is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Abbotsford
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Abbotsford have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbotsford
- Abbotsford is located in Clark County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,225 people
- Milan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milan
- Milan is located in Marathon County
- Corinth
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Abbotsford
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Murat. See our List of 1890's Communities around Murat.
Newspapers Published in Murat ...
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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Murat.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Murat, 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 Murat.
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 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 Murat:
- 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 Taylor County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Chippewa County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Clark 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
- Price County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Rusk County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Chippewa County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Taylor County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Murat. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Taylor County: www.taylor-county.com/
The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <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> | 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 Murat, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Murat) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Murat. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.1894, Longitude: -90.4457 In this case, the coordinates for Murat have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |