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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 Neva Corners (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 Neva Corners. 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 Neva Corners ...

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 Neva Corners: Neva Cors.

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 northwest 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 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.

Neva Corners is located in Langlade 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 Langlade County: Forest, Lincoln, Marathon, Menominee, Oconto, Oneida & Shawano.

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

  • Langlade County     (The home county of Neva Corners)
  • Forest County
  • Lincoln County
  • Marathon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neva Corners, with the one closest to Neva Corners listed first.
    • Glandon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sunset
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Norrie
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Norrie is located in Marathon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norrie
    • Nutterville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Hatley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Ringle
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Brokaw
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Brokaw is located in Marathon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brokaw
      • Estimated population in 2018: 245 people
    • Pike Lake
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Elderon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Elderon is located in Marathon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elderon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 213 people
    • Schofield
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Schofield is located in Marathon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schofield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,153 people
    • Taegesville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Wausau
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Weston
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Weston is located in Marathon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15,165 people
  • Menominee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neva Corners, with the one closest to Neva Corners listed first.
    • Zoar
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Neopit
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Neopit is located in Menominee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neopit
  • Oconto County
  • Oneida County
  • Shawano County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neva Corners, with the one closest to Neva Corners listed first.
    • Aniwa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Aniwa is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aniwa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
    • Mattoon
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Mattoon is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattoon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 412 people
    • Birnamwood
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Almon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Regina
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Eland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Bowler
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Bowler is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowler
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 286 people
    • Wittenberg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Middle Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Middle Village is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Village
    • Gresham
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Neva Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Neva Corners.

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 Neva Corners - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Neva Corners, with the one closest to Neva Corners 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.<2>

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

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

  • Deerbrook
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Kempster
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Antigo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Bryant
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Koepenick
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Koepenick is located in Langlade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koepenick
  • Summit Lake
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Summit Lake is located in Langlade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Lake
  • Elmhurst
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Elmhurst is located in Langlade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmhurst
  • Phlox
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Elton
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Elton is located in Langlade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elton
  • Aniwa
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Aniwa is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aniwa
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
  • Hogarty
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Hogarty is located in Marathon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogarty
  • Lily
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Neva Corners ...

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 64 newspapers that have been published in the area around Neva Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Neva Corners, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Neva Corners.

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 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 Neva Corners:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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 Neva Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Neva Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.