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 Two Creeks (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 Two Creeks. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Two Creeks is located in Manitowoc County.
To see how the shape of Wisconsin's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Manitowoc County: Brown, Calumet, Kewaunee & Sheboygan.
Below are the counties that are near Two Creeks. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Two Creeks:
- Manitowoc County (The home county of Two Creeks)
- The following are listed by their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- Tisch Mills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tisch Mills
- Tisch Mills is located in Manitowoc County
- Mishicot
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest) - Fisherville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisherville
- Fisherville is located in Manitowoc County
- Larrabee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larrabee
- Larrabee is located in Manitowoc County
- Zander
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zander
- Zander is located in Manitowoc County
- Kingsbridge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsbridge
- Kingsbridge is located in Manitowoc County
- Melnik
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melnik
- Melnik is located in Manitowoc County
- Shoto
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoto
- Shoto is located in Manitowoc County
- Two Rivers
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Two Rivers
- Two Rivers is located in Manitowoc County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 10,973 people
- Francis Creek
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Francis Creek
- Francis Creek is located in Manitowoc County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 638 people
- Rockwood
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockwood
- Rockwood is located in Manitowoc County
- Kellnersville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellnersville
- Kellnersville is located in Manitowoc County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 317 people
- Brown County
- The following are listed by their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- Fontenoy
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontenoy
- Fontenoy is located in Brown County
- Denmark
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denmark
- Denmark is located in Brown County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,271 people
- Poland
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poland
- Poland is located in Brown County
- Pine Grove
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
- Pine Grove is located in Brown County
- Sugar Bush
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Bush
- Sugar Bush is located in Brown County
- Glenmore
(18 miles [29 km] to the west) - Lark
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lark
- Lark is located in Brown County
- Wayside
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Wayside is located in Brown County
- Bellevue
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
- Bellevue is located in Brown County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,030 people
- Morrison
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west) - Bellevue Town
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bellevue Town have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue Town
- Bellevue Town is located in Brown County
- Bay Settlement
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bay Settlement. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Settlement
- Bay Settlement is located in Brown County
- Calumet County
- The following are listed by their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- Brillion
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Potter
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Forest Junction
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Junction
- Forest Junction is located in Calumet County
- Door County
- The following are listed by their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- Rosiere
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north) - Forestville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Forestville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forestville
- Forestville is located in Door County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 408 people
- Brussels
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brussels
- Brussels is located in Door County
- Namur
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Kewaunee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- Bolt
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolt
- Bolt is located in Kewaunee County
- Krok
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Stangelville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stangelville
- Stangelville is located in Kewaunee County
- Curran
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Kewaunee
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kewaunee
- Kewaunee is located in Kewaunee County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,835 people
- Ellisville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ellisville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellisville
- Ellisville is located in Kewaunee County
- Pilsen
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilsen
- Pilsen is located in Kewaunee County
- Casco
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casco
- Casco is located in Kewaunee County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
- Luxemburg
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest) - Euren
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euren
- Euren is located in Kewaunee County
- Gregorville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregorville
- Gregorville is located in Kewaunee County
- Algoma
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
- Algoma is located in Kewaunee County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,038 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Two Creeks, see our County-by-County Page for Two Creeks.
Cemeteries Near Two Creeks ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Two Creeks.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Two Creeks covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. John's Lutheran Cemetery
- The St. John's Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
- Maack Cemetery
- St. John's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88979 <3>
- Sandy Bay Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sandy Bay Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sandy Bay Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
- The St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Isadore the Farmer Catholic Church Cemetery
- St. Mary's Cemetery
- Tisch Mills Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244119 <3>
- Progressive Farmer's Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Progressive Farmer's Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2334218 <3>
- German Methodist Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the German Methodist Cemetery
- The German Methodist Cemetery has also been known as:
- German Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88002 <3>
- Saxonburg Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Saxonburg Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #89238 <3>
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2208112 <3>
- Mishicot Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mishicot Cemetery
- The Mishicot Cemetery has also been known as:
- Mishicot Public Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254082 <3>
- St. Josephs Catholic Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Josephs Catholic Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Josephs Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Franklin Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Franklin Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Franklin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jambo Creek Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jambo Creek Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #88229 <3>
- Holy Cross Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2445360 <3>
- Continue List (165 more) ...
- Norman Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norman Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Forest View Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forest View Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forest View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Larrabee Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larrabee Church Cemetery
- The Larrabee Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Larrabee Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2287835 <3>
- Norman Cemetery
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.<4>
While we didn't find Two Creeks in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Two Creeks.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Two Creeks, with the one closest to Two Creeks listed first.
- Tisch Mills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tisch Mills
- Tisch Mills is located in Manitowoc County
- Norman
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest) - Mishicot
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest) - Larrabee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larrabee
- Larrabee is located in Manitowoc County
- Bolt
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolt
- Bolt is located in Kewaunee County
- Kingsbridge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsbridge
- Kingsbridge is located in Manitowoc County
- Melnik
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melnik
- Melnik is located in Manitowoc County
- Krok
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north) - Stangelville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stangelville
- Stangelville is located in Kewaunee County
- Curran
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west) - Francis Creek
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Francis Creek
- Francis Creek is located in Manitowoc County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 638 people
- Cooperstown
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cooperstown have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooperstown
- Cooperstown is located in Manitowoc County
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Kewaunee
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kewaunee
- Kewaunee is located in Kewaunee County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,835 people
- Fontenoy
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontenoy
- Fontenoy is located in Brown County
- Ellisville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ellisville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellisville
- Ellisville is located in Kewaunee County
- Kewaunee
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Two Creeks. See our List of 1890's Communities around Two Creeks.
Newspapers Published in Two Creeks ...
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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Two Creeks.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Two Creeks, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Two Creeks.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Two Creeks:
- Websites specific to Wisconsin
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.wisconsinhistory.org/
- Pages specific to Manitowoc County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Brown County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Calumet County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Door County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Kewaunee County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Brown County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Wisconsin
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Manitowoc County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Wisconsin
- Cemeteries of Manitowoc County
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Two Creeks. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Manitowoc County: www.co.manitowoc.wi.us/
The official website for State of Wisconsin: https://www.wisconsin.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
| <2> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Two Creeks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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- Two Creeks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Two Creeks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3022, Longitude: -87.5631 In this case, the coordinates for Two Creeks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |