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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 Phillips (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 Phillips. 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 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.

Phillips is located in Price County and is the County Seat.

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 Price County: Ashland, Iron, Lincoln, Oneida, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor & Vilas.

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

  • Price County     (The home county of Phillips)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Phillips, with the one closest to Phillips listed first.
    • Lugerville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Worcester
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Prentice
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Catawba
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Fifield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Kennan
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Kennan is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
    • Park Falls
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Park Falls is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
    • Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
      • Estimated population in 2015: 1,106 people
    • Kennedy
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Ashland County
  • Rusk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Phillips, with the one closest to Phillips listed first.
    • Hawkins
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Hawkins is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 275 people
    • Ingram
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Ingram is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
    • Glen Flora
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Glen Flora is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Flora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
  • Sawyer County
  • Taylor County

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

Cemeteries Near Phillips ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Phillips.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Phillips, with the one closest to Phillips listed first.

  • Lakeside Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Harmony Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hackett Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Emery Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Prentice Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Catawba Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Forest Home Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Kennan Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Nola Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (22 more) ...
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Hillcrest Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Knox Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)

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.<1>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Phillips had a population of 816 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Phillips had a population of 1,320 people.

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

  • Worcester
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Coolidge ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Coolidge is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolidge
  • Catawba
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Fifield
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Kennan
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Kennan is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
  • Brantwood
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Brantwood is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantwood
  • Park Falls
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Park Falls is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
  • Butternut
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Westboro
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • McCord
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • McCord is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord
  • Chelsea
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Rib Lake
    (27 miles [43.5 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 Phillips. See our List of 1890's Communities around Phillips.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Phillips ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Phillips.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Phillips. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Phillips and those printed in the larger area surrounding Phillips.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<2> of Phillips.

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 Phillips:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Phillips, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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- Phillips) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.