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 Slab City (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 Slab City. 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.
Slab City is located in Shawano 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 Shawano County: Brown, Langlade, Marathon, Menominee, Oconto, Outagamie, Portage & Waupaca.
Below are the counties that are near Slab City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Slab City:
- Shawano County (The home county of Slab City)
- The following are listed by their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Bonduel
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Bonduel is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonduel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,411 people
- Zachow
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Zachow is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zachow
- Frazer Corners
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Frazer Corners is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazer Corners
- Lunds
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Lunds is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunds
- Cecil
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Cecil is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
- Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
- Shawano
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Shawano is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawano
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,885 people
- Briarton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Briarton is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briarton
- Pulcifer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pulcifer is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulcifer
- Laney
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Laney is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laney
- Rose Lawn
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Rose Lawn is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Lawn
- Belle Plaine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Belle Plaine is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plaine
- Pella
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Pella is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pella
- Gresham
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Gresham is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gresham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 563 people
- Brown County
- The following are listed by their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Pulaski
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Pulaski is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulaski
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,766 people
- Pittsfield
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pittsfield is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsfield
- Flintville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Flintville is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flintville
- Howard
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Howard is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 20,346 people
- Oneida
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Oneida is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneida
- Suamico
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Suamico is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suamico
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,064 people
- Duck Creek
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Duck Creek is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duck Creek
- Hobart
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hobart is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobart
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,495 people
- Ashwaubenon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Ashwaubenon is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashwaubenon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17,004 people
- Green Bay
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Green Bay is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Bay
- Population from the 2020 Census: 103,836 people
- Allouez
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Allouez is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allouez
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13,784 people
- De Pere
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- De Pere is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Pere
- Population from the 2020 Census: 25,014 people
- Preble
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Preble is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preble
- Menominee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Legend Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Legend Lake is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legend Lake
- Keshena
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Keshena is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keshena
- Neopit
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Neopit is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neopit
- Zoar
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Zoar is located in Menominee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zoar
- Oconto County
- The following are listed by their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Krakow
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Krakow is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krakow
- Gillett
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Gillett is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
- Chase
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Chase is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
- Oconto Falls
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Oconto Falls is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconto Falls
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,805 people
- Suring
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Suring is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suring
- Population from the 2020 Census: 524 people
- Frostville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Frostville is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frostville
- Hickory Corners
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hickory Corners is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Corners
- Spruce
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Spruce is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spruce
- Stiles Junction
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Stiles Junction is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stiles Junction
- Breed
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Breed is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breed
- Lena
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Lena is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
- Population from the 2020 Census: 540 people
- Pensaukee
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Pensaukee is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pensaukee
- Armstrong
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Armstrong is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
- Outagamie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Nichols
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Nichols is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
- Population from the 2020 Census: 283 people
- Leeman
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Leeman is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeman
- Seymour
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Seymour is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seymour
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,457 people
- Black Creek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Black Creek is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Creek
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,309 people
- Bear Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Bear Creek is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Creek
- Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
- Shiocton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Shiocton is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiocton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 914 people
- Chicago Corners
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Chicago Corners is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chicago Corners
- Freedom
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Freedom is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom
- Apple Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Apple Creek is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Creek
- Hortonville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Hortonville is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hortonville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,976 people
- Greenville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Greenville is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
- Waupaca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Embarrass
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Embarrass is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embarrass
- Population from the 2020 Census: 375 people
- Clintonville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Clintonville is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clintonville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,353 people
- Marion
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Marion is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,167 people
- New London
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- New London is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New London
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,065 people
- Granite City ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Granite City is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite City
- Big Falls
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Big Falls is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Falls
- Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
- Manawa
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Manawa is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manawa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,269 people
- Ostrander
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Ostrander is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ostrander
- Little Wolf ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Little Wolf is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Wolf
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Slab City, see our County-by-County Page for Slab City.
Cemeteries Near Slab City ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Slab City.
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 Slab City - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Slab City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Friedens Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Zion Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Jerusalem Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerusalem Cemetery
- The Jerusalem Cemetery has also been known as:
- Jerusalem Lutheran Cemetery
- St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Lessor Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Resthaven Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Resthaven Cemetery
- The Resthaven Cemetery has also been known as:
- Magee - Prickett Cemetery
- St. Johns UCC Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- St. Martins Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- St. Wenceslaus Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Hillside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dickson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (170 more) ...
- White Clay Lake Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Clay Lake Cemetery
- The White Clay Lake Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kulb's Cemetery
- Schutz Cemetery
- Lakeview Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Cemetery
- The Lakeview Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bierbaum Cemetery
- St. Lawrence Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
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 Slab City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Slab City.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Slab City, with the one closest to Slab City listed first.
- Bonduel
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Bonduel is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonduel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,411 people
- Cecil
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Cecil is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
- Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
- Angelica
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Angelica is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angelica
- Briarton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Briarton is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briarton
- Hofa Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hofa Park is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hofa Park
- Shawano
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Shawano is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawano
- Population from the 2020 Census: 8,885 people
- Laney
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Laney is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laney
- Pulcifer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pulcifer is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulcifer
- Rose Lawn
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Rose Lawn is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Lawn
- Pulaski
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Pulaski is located in Brown County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pulaski
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,766 people
- Belle Plaine
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Belle Plaine is located in Shawano County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plaine
- Leeman
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Leeman is located in Outagamie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leeman
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Embarrass
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Embarrass is located in Waupaca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embarrass
- Population from the 2020 Census: 375 people
- Gillett
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Gillett is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
- Chase
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Chase is located in Oconto County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Slab City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Slab City.
Newspapers Published in Slab City ...
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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Slab City.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Slab City, 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 Slab City.
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 Slab City:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Pages specific to Shawano County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Brown County
- Menominee County
- Oconto County
- Outagamie County
- Waupaca County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
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 Slab City, 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- Slab City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |