Madison County, Nebraska Townships
Jefferson Deer Creek Valley Norfolk T 24 N
Grove Highland Battle Creek Warnerville T 23 N
Emerick Schoolcraft Fairview Union T 22 N
Shell Creek Kalamazoo Green Garden Madison T 21 N
R 4 W R 3 W R 2 W R 1 W
In the above R = Range, W = West, T = Township, and N = North.
How the sections are numbered for each of the townships
Each section is 1 square mile. The top is north in both the listing for the townships and for the sections listed below.
6 5 4 3 2 1
7 8 9 10 11 12
18 17 16 15 14 13
19 20 21 22 23 24
30 29 28 27 26 25
31 32 33 34 35 36
Cemeteries located in each of the townships in Madison County. The township is in enlarged print and then the cemetery name with the section number it is located in. If there are other names the cemetery is known by it follows in { }.
Jefferson…….Warren, Sec. 9 {Terry, Howard, or Northside cemetery} ; Tilden City, Sec. 19 { I. O. O. F., or Odd Fellows cemetery} ; Immanuel Lutheran, Sec. 19; McCoy, Sec. 33 {Dry Creek cemetery} ; St. Matthew Lutheran, Sec. 35
Deer Creek…..Jackson, Sec. 15 {Buffington-Jackson cemetery}
Valley……..Best, Sec. 23; St. Patrick, Sec. 31
Norfolk……Hillcrest, Sec. 16 {Hillcrest Memorial Park cemetery} ; Regional Center, Sec. 13; St. Paul’s Lutheran, Sec. 22; Prospect Hill, Sec. 21; New Lutheran, Sec. 22 {New Christ Lutheran, or Christ Evangelical Lutheran cemetery}
Grove…… Hutchins, Sec. 12; Williams’, Sec. 18 { Pleasant View cemetery} ; Buffalo Creek, Sec. 28 {St. Paul Lutheran/Buffalo Creek cemetery}
Highland…..Deer Creek, Sec. 6; St. John’s Lutheran, Sec. 12 { St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran cemetery} ; Union, Sec. 12
Battle Creek…..Alberry, Sec. 15 {Allberry cemetery}
Warnerville
Emerick…..Emerick, Sec. 2; Rosehill, Sec. 19, Trinity #2, Sec. 28 {St. Paul’s Lutheran–Newman Grove, Ne., or German Evangelical Lutheran cemetery–Newman Grove, Ne.} ; Morgan, Sec. 27
Schoolcraft…..Osborn, Sec. 15
Fairview…..Fairview, Sec. 8 { Fairview Precinct Methodist cemetery}
Union…..Pleasant Valley, Sec. 14 {German Lutheran cemetery, or Besk cemetery}
Shell Creek…..Shell Creek Lutheran, Sec. 22; Trinity #1, Sec. 29 {Trinity Lutheran #1 cemetery}
Kalamazoo…..Iowa Valley, Sec. 4; Kohl, Sec. 24 {German Methodist Episcopal Zion, or Kalamazoo cemetery} ; Zion Lutheran, Sec. 28 {Wedekind, or Evangelical Lutheran Zion cemetery of Kalamazoo, or Evangelical Lutheran Zion Church of Kalamazoo cemetery}
Green Garden…..Green Garden, Sec. 8 {St. John’s Lutheran / Green Garden cemetery} ; Zion Evangelical, Sec. 8 {Schmitt / Rottler cemetery}
Madison……Barnes, Sec. 5 {Barnes Reserve cemetery} ; St. Leonard’s Catholic, Sec. 5; Crown Hill, Sec. 4 {Clausen cemetery}
Addition Jan. 2013
The following website contains information originally done by a member of the Madison County Genealogical Society. It has been changed and added on by others so accuracy is only as good as the person who submitted the additional information.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nemadiso/madcem.htm
Notice: The rootsweb website is not fully working so the link above is not working at the current time. June 12, 2018.