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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 Rubicon (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 Rubicon. 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 and doctors 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.

Rubicon is located in Dodge 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 Dodge County: Columbia, Dane, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jefferson, Washington & Waukesha.

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

  • Dodge County     (The home county of Rubicon)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rubicon, with the one closest to Rubicon listed first.
    • Huilsburg
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Woodland
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Neosho
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Iron Ridge
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Neda
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hustisford
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Hustisford is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hustisford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,060 people
    • Ashippun
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Horicon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Horicon is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horicon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,680 people
    • Mayville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Mayville is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,829 people
    • Theresa
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Clyman
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Clyman is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 396 people
    • Juneau
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Columbia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rubicon, with the one closest to Rubicon listed first.
    • Columbus
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Fall River
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Fond du Lac County
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rubicon, with the one closest to Rubicon listed first.
    • Lac La Belle
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Lac La Belle is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lac La Belle
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 302 people
    • Lake Lac La Belle
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Lake Lac La Belle is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lac La Belle
    • Ixonia
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Ixonia is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ixonia
    • Watertown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Concord
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Concord is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord
    • Farmington
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Grellton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sullivan
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Sullivan is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 666 people
    • Johnson Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Helenville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Milford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Rome
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Rome is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome
  • Milwaukee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rubicon, with the one closest to Rubicon listed first.
    • West Granville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Brown Deer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Brown Deer is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Deer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,191 people
    • River Hills
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • River Hills is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,575 people
    • Bayside
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Bayside is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayside
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,326 people
    • Fox Point
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Fox Point is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Point
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,628 people
    • Glendale
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Glendale is located in Milwaukee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,775 people
    • Wauwatosa
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Ozaukee County
  • Sheboygan County
  • Washington County
  • Waukesha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rubicon, with the one closest to Rubicon listed first.
    • Monterey
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Stonebank
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Okauchee Lake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Okauchee Lake is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okauchee Lake
    • Chenequa
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Chenequa is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chenequa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
    • Okauchee
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Merton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Merton is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,812 people
    • Nashotah
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Oconomowoc Lake
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Oconomowoc Lake is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconomowoc Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
    • Oconomowoc
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Oconomowoc is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconomowoc
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,160 people
    • Hartland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Hartland is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,338 people
    • Delafield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Delafield is located in Waukesha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delafield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,559 people
    • Sussex
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Rubicon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rubicon.

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

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Rubicon ...

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 108 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rubicon.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rubicon, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rubicon.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Rubicon:

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 Rubicon, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rubicon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.