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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 Westboro (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 Westboro. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Westboro is located in Taylor 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 Taylor County: Chippewa, Clark, Lincoln, Marathon, Price & Rusk.

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

  • Taylor County     (The home county of Westboro)
  • Clark County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Westboro, with the one closest to Westboro listed first.
    • Dorchester
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Dorchester is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people
    • Abbotsford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Curtiss
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Colby
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Colby is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,941 people
    • Owen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Westboro, with the one closest to Westboro listed first.
    • Jersey City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jersey City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jersey City
    • Tomahawk
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Irma
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Marathon County
  • Price County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Westboro, with the one closest to Westboro listed first.
    • Prentice
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Catawba
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Worcester
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Kennan
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Kennan is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
    • Phillips
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Lugerville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Rusk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Westboro, with the one closest to Westboro listed first.
    • Hawkins
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Hawkins is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 275 people
    • Ingram
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Ingram is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
    • Glen Flora
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Glen Flora is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Flora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people

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

Cemeteries Near Westboro ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Westboro.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Westboro, with the one closest to Westboro 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.<1>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Westboro had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Chelsea
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Rib Lake
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Whittlesey
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Whittlesey is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whittlesey
  • Interwald
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Medford
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Brantwood
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Brantwood is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantwood
  • Catawba
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Little Black
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Little Black is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Black
  • Worcester
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Perkinstown
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Kennan
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Kennan is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
  • Stetsonville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Stetsonville is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stetsonville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Phillips
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • McCord
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • McCord is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord
    • Dorchester
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Dorchester is located in Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 864 people

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Westboro ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Westboro.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

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

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 Westboro:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Westboro, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Westboro) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.