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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 Woodhull (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 Woodhull. 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 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.

Woodhull is located in Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac County: Calumet, Dodge, Green Lake, Sheboygan, Washington & Winnebago.

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

  • Fond du Lac County     (The home county of Woodhull)
  • Calumet County
  • Columbia County
    • Friesland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Friesland is located in Columbia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friesland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 341 people
  • Dodge County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Woodhull, with the one closest to Woodhull listed first.
    • Brownsville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Brownsville is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 585 people
    • Waupun
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Knowles
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Lomira
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Kekoskee
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Kekoskee is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kekoskee
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 891 people
    • Atwater
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Theresa
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Mayville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Mayville is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,829 people
    • Burnett
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Fox Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Fox Lake is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,440 people
    • Horicon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Horicon is located in Dodge County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horicon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,680 people
    • Minnesota Junction
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Green Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Woodhull, with the one closest to Woodhull listed first.
    • Utley
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Green Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Green Lake is located in Green Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 959 people
    • Markesan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Markesan is located in Green Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markesan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,389 people
    • Berlin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Princeton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Kingston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Marquette
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Marquette is located in Green Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marquette
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 154 people
  • Manitowoc County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Woodhull, with the one closest to Woodhull listed first.
    • Kiel
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Rockville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Sheboygan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Woodhull, with the one closest to Woodhull listed first.
    • Glenbeulah
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Glenbeulah is located in Sheboygan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenbeulah
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 467 people
    • Elkhart Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Elkhart Lake is located in Sheboygan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhart Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,013 people
    • Cascade
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Plymouth
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Washington County
  • Winnebago County

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

Cemeteries Near Woodhull ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Woodhull.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Woodhull, with the one closest to Woodhull 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 Woodhull had a population of 62 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Eldorado
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Rosendale
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Rosendale is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosendale
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,026 people
  • Ladoga
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Oakfield
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Oak Center
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Oak Center is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Center
  • Van Dyne
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Van Dyne is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Dyne
  • West Rosendale
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Ring
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Ring is located in Winnebago County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ring
  • Taycheedah
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Taycheedah is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taycheedah
  • Brandon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • South Byron
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • South Byron is located in Fond du Lac County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Byron
  • Byron
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Woodhull ...

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 123 newspapers that have been published in the area around Woodhull.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Woodhull, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Woodhull.

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 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 Woodhull:

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 Woodhull, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Woodhull) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.