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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 Stone Lake (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 Stone Lake. 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 Stone Lake ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Stone Lake: Stone Lk.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Stone Lake. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Stone Lake.

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 northeast 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 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.

Stone Lake is primarily located in Sawyer County. A portion of Stone Lake extends into Washburn 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 Sawyer County: Ashland, Barron, Bayfield, Douglas, Price, Rusk & Washburn.

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

  • Sawyer County     (The home county of Stone Lake)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stone Lake, with the one closest to Stone Lake listed first.
    • Reserve
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Hayward
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Hayward is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
    • Chief Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Chief Lake is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chief Lake
    • Little Round Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Little Round Lake is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Round Lake
    • Couderay
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Couderay is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couderay
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Radisson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Radisson is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radisson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
    • Phipps
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • New Post
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Exeland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Exeland is located in Sawyer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exeland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 190 people
    • Seeley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Winter
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Barron County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stone Lake, with the one closest to Stone Lake listed first.
    • Haugen
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Haugen is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haugen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
    • Rice Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Rice Lake is located in Barron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,498 people
  • Bayfield County
  • Burnett County
  • Rusk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stone Lake, with the one closest to Stone Lake listed first.
    • Strickland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Weyerhaeuser
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Weyerhaeuser is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weyerhaeuser
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 210 people
    • Apollonia
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Bruce
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bruce is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruce
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 688 people
  • Washburn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stone Lake, with the one closest to Stone Lake listed first.
    • Earl
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Madge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Birchwood
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Birchwood is located in Washburn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 426 people
    • Nobleton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Spooner
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Shell Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Minong
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Minong is located in Washburn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people

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

Cemeteries Near Stone Lake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stone Lake.

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 Stone Lake - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stone Lake, with the one closest to Stone Lake 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.<3>

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

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

  • Reserve
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Hayward
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Hayward is located in Sawyer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayward
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,352 people
  • Nobleton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Phipps
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Spooner
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Shell Lake
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Haugen
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Haugen is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haugen
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
  • Minong
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Minong is located in Washburn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minong
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 506 people
  • Bashaw
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Rice Lake
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Rice Lake is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Lake
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,498 people
  • Barronett
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Barronett is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barronett
  • Lehigh
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Lehigh is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lehigh
  • Cable
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Canton
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Canton is located in Barron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Stone Lake ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stone Lake.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Stone Lake. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Stone Lake and those printed in the larger area surrounding Stone Lake.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Stone Lake.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Stone Lake:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Stone Lake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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 Stone Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.