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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Jay Villa. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Jay Villa to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Jay Villa, please Contact Us.

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 Jay Villa (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 Jay Villa. 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 hospitals and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Jay Villa is historic, it would have been located within present day Conecuh 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 Conecuh County: Butler, Covington, Escambia & Monroe.

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

  • Conecuh County     (The home county of Jay Villa)
  • Butler County
  • Covington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jay Villa, with the one closest to Jay Villa listed first.
    • Red Level
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • River Falls
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Carolina
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Carolina is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carolina
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
    • Andalusia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Gantt
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Gantt is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gantt
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 214 people
    • Heath
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Heath is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heath
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 252 people
    • Libertyville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Libertyville is located in Covington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libertyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
    • Falco
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Wing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Escambia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jay Villa, with the one closest to Jay Villa listed first.
    • Brewton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Roberts
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Roberts is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
    • East Brewton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Riverview
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Riverview is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
    • Hammac
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Bradley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Bradley is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
    • Pollard
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Pollard is located in Escambia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pollard
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
  • Monroe County
  • Santa Rosa County (FL)

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

Cemeteries Near Jay Villa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jay Villa.

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 Jay Villa - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

Jay Villa itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Sparta ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Evergreen
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Castleberry
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Mount Union
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Wilcox
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Belleville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Belleville is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belleville
  • Brooklyn
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Brooklyn is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn
  • Kirkland
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Kirkland is located in Escambia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkland
  • Cohassett
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Cohassett is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cohassett
  • Bowles
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Bowles is located in Conecuh County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowles
  • Boykin
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Boykin is located in Escambia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boykin
  • Garland
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • 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 Jay Villa. See our List of 1890's Communities around Jay Villa.

Newspapers Published in Jay Villa ...

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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jay Villa.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jay Villa, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jay Villa.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Jay Villa:

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 Jay Villa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Jay Villa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.