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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 Cahaba Landing (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 Cahaba Landing. 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.

Name Variations for Cahaba Landing ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Cahaba Landing: Cahaba Lndg. (or less commonly used: Cahaba Lndng.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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.

Cahaba Landing is located in Jefferson County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jefferson County: Bibb, Blount, Saint Clair, Shelby, Tuscaloosa & Walker.

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

  • Jefferson County     (The home county of Cahaba Landing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cahaba Landing, with the one closest to Cahaba Landing listed first.
    • Irondale
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Weems
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Rock Ridge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Marks Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Marks Village is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marks Village
    • Mountain Brook
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Gate City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Gate City is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gate City
    • Cahaba Heights
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Alton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • McCombs
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Avondale
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Avondale is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avondale
    • English Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • English Village is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Village
    • Mountain Brook Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Cedar Grove ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
  • Bibb County
    • Eddings
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Eddings is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eddings
  • Blount County
  • Cullman County
    • Baltimore ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Baltimore is located in Cullman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baltimore
  • Saint Clair County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cahaba Landing, with the one closest to Cahaba Landing listed first.
    • Woodland Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Woodland Village is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Village
    • Moody
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Acmar
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Brompton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Parsons
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Argo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Argo is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,278 people
    • Cook's Springs
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Cook's Springs is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cook's Springs
    • Margaret
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Turnbough Town
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Turnbough Town is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbough Town
    • Vincent
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Vincent is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vincent
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,223 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vincent <1>
    • Fountainrun ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Fountainrun is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountainrun
    • Odenville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Branchville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Branchville is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branchville
  • Shelby County
  • Talladega County
  • Tuscaloosa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cahaba Landing, with the one closest to Cahaba Landing listed first.
    • Tannehill
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Tannehill is located in Tuscaloosa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tannehill
    • Lake View
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Walker County

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

Cemeteries Near Cahaba Landing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cahaba Landing.

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 Cahaba Landing - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cahaba Landing, with the one closest to Cahaba Landing 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.<2>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Cahaba Landing ...

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 187 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cahaba Landing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cahaba Landing, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cahaba Landing.

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 Cahaba Landing:

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>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 Cahaba Landing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Cahaba Landing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.