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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 Apricot (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 Apricot. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Apricot is located in Benton County.

To see how the shape of Washington's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Benton County: Morrow (OR), Umatilla (OR), Franklin, Grant, Klickitat, Walla Walla & Yakima.

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

  • Benton County     (The home county of Apricot)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Apricot, with the one closest to Apricot listed first.
    • Prosser
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Benton City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Paterson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • West Richland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Richland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Klickitat County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Apricot, with the one closest to Apricot listed first.
    • Bluelight
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluelight
      • Bluelight is located in Klickitat County
    • Bickleton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cleveland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
      • Cleveland is located in Klickitat County
  • Yakima County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Apricot, with the one closest to Apricot listed first.
    • Grandview
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Byron
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byron
      • Byron is located in Yakima County
    • Mabton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Sunnyside
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Outlook
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Outlook
      • Outlook is located in Yakima County
    • Satus
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Satus have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satus
      • Satus is located in Yakima County
    • Granger
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Zillah
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Toppenish
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Buena
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Wapato
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Morrow County (OR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Apricot, with the one closest to Apricot listed first.
    • Boardman
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boardman have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boardman
      • Boardman is located in Morrow County (OR)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,794 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Boardman <1>
    • Irrigon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irrigon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irrigon
      • Irrigon is located in Morrow County (OR)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,799 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Irrigon <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Apricot ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Apricot.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Apricot, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Apricot.

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 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 Apricot:

Cemeteries Near Apricot ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Apricot.

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 Apricot covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Grandview Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grandview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grandview Cemetery
  • Prosser Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Mabton Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mabton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mabton Cemetery
  • Sunnyside Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunnyside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Cemetery
  • Lower Valley Memorial Gardens
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lower Valley Memorial Gardens
  • Sunnyside Memorial Gardens
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunnyside Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Memorial Gardens
  • Outlook Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Outlook Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Outlook Cemetery
  • Glade Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Glade Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glade Cemetery
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
  • Black Rock Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Black Rock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Black Rock Cemetery
  • Beaver Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beaver Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beaver Cemetery
  • Zillah Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • McCoy Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Elmwood Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Sixprong Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sixprong Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sixprong 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.<5>

While we didn't find Apricot in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Apricot.

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

  • Byron
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byron
    • Byron is located in Yakima County
  • Mabton
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Satus
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Satus have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satus
    • Satus is located in Yakima County
  • Toppenish
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Bickleton
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cleveland
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
    • Cleveland is located in Klickitat County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Apricot. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Benton County: www.co.benton.wa.us/

The official website for State of Washington: https://access.wa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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- Apricot) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Apricot. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.2365, Longitude: -119.8575       In this case, the coordinates for Apricot have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Apricot, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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