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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 Worcester (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 Worcester. 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.

Worcester is located in Price 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 Price County: Ashland, Iron, Lincoln, Oneida, Rusk, Sawyer, Taylor & Vilas.

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

  • Price County     (The home county of Worcester)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Worcester, with the one closest to Worcester listed first.
    • Prentice
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Phillips
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Catawba
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Lugerville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Kennan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Kennan is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
    • Fifield
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Park Falls
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Park Falls is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
    • Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake is located in Price County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake
      • Estimated population in 2015: 1,106 people
    • Kennedy
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Ashland County
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Worcester, with the one closest to Worcester listed first.
    • Jersey City
      (27 miles [43.5 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)
  • Oneida County
  • Rusk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Worcester, with the one closest to Worcester listed first.
    • Hawkins
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Hawkins is located in Rusk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkins
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 275 people
    • Ingram
      (26 miles [41.8 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
      (29 miles [46.7 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
  • Taylor County

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

Cemeteries Near Worcester ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Worcester.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Worcester, with the one closest to Worcester listed first.

  • Hackett Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Prentice Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Emery Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Lakeside Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Harmony Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Knox Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Finnish Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Catawba Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Garden of Memory Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (29 more) ...
    • Somo Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Levitt Creek Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Hillcrest Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)

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, Worcester had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Phillips
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Brantwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Brantwood is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantwood
  • Catawba
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Kennan
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Kennan is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennan
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
  • Coolidge ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Coolidge is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolidge
  • Westboro
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • McCord
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • McCord is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord
  • Fifield
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Rib Lake
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Chelsea
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Park Falls
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Park Falls is located in Price County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Falls
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,192 people
  • Whittlesey
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Whittlesey is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whittlesey
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Worcester ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Worcester.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Worcester, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Worcester.

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 either 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 Worcester:

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