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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 New Miner (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 New Miner. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

New Miner is located in Juneau 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 Juneau County: Adams, Columbia, Jackson, Monroe, Sauk, Vernon & Wood.

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

  • Juneau County     (The home county of New Miner)
  • Adams County
  • Crawford County
    • Lynxville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Lynxville is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynxville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
  • Jackson County
  • Monroe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Miner, with the one closest to New Miner listed first.
    • Shennington
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Wyeville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Wyeville is located in Monroe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyeville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
    • Valley Junction
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Oakdale
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Warrens
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Warrens is located in Monroe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrens
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
    • Clifton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Tomah
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Tomah is located in Monroe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomah
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,363 people
    • Tunnel City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Tunnel City is located in Monroe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel City
    • Kendall
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Kendall is located in Monroe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
  • Waushara County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Miner, with the one closest to New Miner listed first.
    • Hancock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Hancock is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 402 people
    • Coloma
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Coloma is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coloma
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 444 people
    • Plainfield
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Plainfield is located in Waushara County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 832 people
  • Wood County
    • The following are listed by their distance from New Miner, with the one closest to New Miner listed first.
    • Nekoosa
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Port Edwards
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Wisconsin Rapids
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Pittsville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Pittsville is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 820 people
    • Grand Rapids
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lake Wazeecha
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Lake Wazeecha is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wazeecha
    • Eight Corners
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Vesper
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Biron
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Biron is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biron
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 761 people
    • Arpin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Arpin is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arpin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
    • Rudolph
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Rudolph is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudolph
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 411 people
    • Lindsey
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near New Miner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of New Miner.

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 New Miner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

  • Sprague
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Monroe Center
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Monroe Center is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monroe Center
  • Strongs Prairie
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Babcock
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Babcock is located in Wood County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Babcock
  • New Rome ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Meadow Valley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Meadow Valley is located in Juneau County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Valley
  • Cloverdale
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Cloverdale is located in Juneau County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
  • Arkdale
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Roche a Cri ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Roche a Cri is located in Adams County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roche a Cri
  • Mather
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Norway Ridge
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Norway Ridge is located in Monroe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norway Ridge
  • Port Edwards
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Walker
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Walker is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
    • Friendship
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Friendship is located in Adams County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
    • Veedum
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Veedum is located in Wood County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veedum

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

Newspapers Published in New Miner ...

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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around New Miner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of New Miner, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for New Miner.

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 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 New Miner:

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 New Miner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- New Miner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.