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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 Suring (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 Suring. 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 hospitals 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.

Suring is located in Oconto 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 Oconto County: Brown, Forest, Langlade, Marinette, Menominee & Shawano.

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

  • Oconto County     (The home county of Suring)
  • Brown County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Suring, with the one closest to Suring listed first.
    • Pulaski
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Flintville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Pittsfield
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Pittsfield is located in Brown County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsfield
    • Suamico
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Suamico is located in Brown County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suamico
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,064 people
  • Langlade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Suring, with the one closest to Suring listed first.
    • Langlade
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • White Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • White Lake is located in Langlade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 353 people
  • Marinette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Suring, with the one closest to Suring listed first.
    • Coleman
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Pound
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Pound is located in Marinette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pound
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
    • Crivitz
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Crivitz is located in Marinette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crivitz
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 938 people
    • Harmony
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Lake is located in Marinette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
      • Estimated population in 2015: 1,136 people
    • Sweetheart City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Peshtigo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Menominee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Suring, with the one closest to Suring listed first.
    • Legend Lake
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Legend Lake is located in Menominee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Legend Lake
    • Keshena
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Neopit
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Neopit is located in Menominee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neopit
    • Zoar
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Outagamie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Suring, with the one closest to Suring listed first.
    • Leeman
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Nichols
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Nichols is located in Outagamie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 283 people
  • Shawano County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Suring, with the one closest to Suring listed first.
    • Pulcifer
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Cecil
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Cecil is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
    • Bonduel
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Zachow
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Middle Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Middle Village is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Village
    • Slab City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Slab City is located in Shawano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
    • Shawano
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Frazer Corners
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Lunds
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Gresham
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Laney
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Belle Plaine
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Waupaca County
    • Embarrass
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Embarrass is located in Waupaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embarrass
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 375 people

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

Cemeteries Near Suring ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Suring.

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

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

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

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

  • Hayes
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Hayes is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayes
  • Breed
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Logan
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Logan is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
  • Gillett
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Gillett is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,306 people
  • Pulcifer
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Spruce
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Cecil
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Cecil is located in Shawano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
  • Mountain
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Oconto Falls
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Keshena
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Lena
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Lena is located in Oconto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 540 people
  • Coleman
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Pound
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Pound is located in Marinette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pound
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
    • Bonduel
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Stiles Junction
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Suring ...

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 Suring.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Suring. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Suring and those printed in the larger area surrounding Suring.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Suring.

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 helpful 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 Suring:

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 Suring, 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- Suring) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.