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 Smith Crossroads (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 Smith Crossroads. 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 Smith Crossroads ...
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.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Smith Crossroads: Smith Xrds.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Smith Crossroads. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Smith Crossroads.
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 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.
Smith Crossroads is located in Kent County.
To see how the shape of Delaware's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kent County: New Castle, Sussex, Caroline (MD), Kent (MD), Queen Anne's (MD), Cape May (NJ), Cumberland (NJ) & Salem (NJ).
Below are the counties that are near Smith Crossroads. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Smith Crossroads:
- Kent County (The home county of Smith Crossroads)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Marydel
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Sandtown
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Sandtown is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandtown
- The Village at Wild Quail
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Willow Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Willow Grove is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Grove
- Hartly
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Dinahs Corner
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Dinahs Corner is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dinahs Corner
- Woodside
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Wyoming
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Summerfield Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Summerfield Village is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerfield Village
- Viola
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Camden
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Bicentennial Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- New Castle County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Forest
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Forest is located in New Castle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
- Vandyke
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Vandyke is located in New Castle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vandyke
- Blackbird
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Blackbird is located in New Castle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackbird
- Townsend
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Deakyneville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Deakyneville is located in New Castle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deakyneville
- Middletown
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Odessa
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- McDonough
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- McDonough is located in New Castle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDonough
- Port Penn
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Summit Bridge
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Summit Bridge is located in New Castle County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit Bridge
- Sussex County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Greenwood
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Scotts Corner
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Scotts Corner is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Corner
- Lincoln Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lincoln Village is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Village
- Banning ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Banning is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banning
- Lincoln
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Anderson Crossroads
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Anderson Crossroads is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson Crossroads
- Bridgeville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Argo Corners
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Argo Corners is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argo Corners
- Ellendale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Slaughter Beach
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jefferson Crossroads
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Jefferson Crossroads is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Crossroads
- Briar Hook
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Briar Hook is located in Sussex County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briar Hook
- Caroline County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Marydel
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Marydel is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
- Templeville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Templeville is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Templeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Henderson
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Goldsboro
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Goldsboro is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsboro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 233 people
- Hollingsworth Circle
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hollingsworth Circle is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollingsworth Circle
- Hollingsworth Circle has also been known as:
- Hollingsworth Crossroads
- Whiteleysburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Whiteleysburg is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiteleysburg
- Bridgetown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bridgetown is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgetown
- Greensboro
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Maple Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Maple Village is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Village
- Ridgely
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Ridgely is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgely
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,655 people
- Oil City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Oil City is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil City
- Denton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Cecil County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Cecilton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Warwick
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Earleville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- John Town
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- John Town is located in Cecil County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for John Town
- Hack Point
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hack Point is located in Cecil County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hack Point
- Cayots
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Cayots is located in Cecil County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayots
- Saint Augustine
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Saint Augustine is located in Cecil County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Augustine
- The Woods of Town Point
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Chesapeake City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Dorchester County (MD)
- Williamsburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Williamsburg is located in Dorchester County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg
- Kent County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Millington
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Massey
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Lambson
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lambson is located in Kent County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lambson
- Sassafras
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Sassafras is located in Kent County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sassafras
- Dogwood Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Dogwood Village is located in Kent County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogwood Village
- Galena
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Chestertown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Georgetown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Gregg Neck
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Gregg Neck is located in Kent County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregg Neck
- Kennedyville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Locust Grove
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Locust Grove is located in Kent County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
- Mile Tree Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Mile Tree Village is located in Kent County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mile Tree Village
- Queen Anne's County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Barclay
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Barclay is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barclay
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Ingleside
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Ingleside is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleside
- Sudlersville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Roberts
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Roberts is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
- Roe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Roe is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roe
- Price
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Price is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Price
- Crumpton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Ruthsburg
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Ruthsburg is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruthsburg
- Church Hill
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- The Village at Church Hill Crossing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Catlin ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Catlin is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catlin
- Queen Anne
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Talbot County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Tappers Corner
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Tappers Corner is located in Talbot County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tappers Corner
- Cordova
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Wye Mills
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Skipton
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Skipton is located in Talbot County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skipton
- Woodland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Woodland is located in Talbot County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland
- Talbot Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Talbot Village is located in Talbot County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talbot Village
- Easton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tunis Mills
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Tunis Mills is located in Talbot County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunis Mills
- Cumberland County (NJ)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Bay Side
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bay Side is located in Cumberland County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Side
- Greenwich
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Greenwich is located in Cumberland County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich
- Othello
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Othello is located in Cumberland County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Othello
- Salem County (NJ)
- Canton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Canton is located in Salem County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Smith Crossroads, see our County-by-County Page for Smith Crossroads.
Cemeteries Near Smith Crossroads ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Smith Crossroads.
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 Smith Crossroads - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Smith Crossroads covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Bethesda Methodist Protestant Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Templeville Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Kingdom Holiness Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Asbury Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Emmanuel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Busic Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- New Union UMC Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Union UMC Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the New Union UMC Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the west of Goldsboro (MD).
- The New Union UMC Cemetery has also been known as:
- Union Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #81732 <3>
- Cedar Grove Wesleyan Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Downham Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Rochester Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Continue List (174 more) ...
- Jarrell Family Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Hopkins Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Amish Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Smith Crossroads in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Smith Crossroads.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Smith Crossroads, with the one closest to Smith Crossroads listed first.
- Marydel
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Marydel is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marydel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
- Henderson
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Templeville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Templeville is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Templeville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Petersburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Petersburg is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
- Slaughter
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Slaughter is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slaughter
- Goldsboro
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Goldsboro is located in Caroline County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsboro
- Population from the 2020 Census: 233 people
- Willow Grove
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Willow Grove is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Grove
- Pearsons Corner
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Pearsons Corner is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsons Corner
- Hartly
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Hollandsville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Hollandsville is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollandsville
- Downs Chapel
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Downs Chapel is located in Kent County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downs Chapel
- Viola
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Woodside
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Wyoming
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Barclay
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Barclay is located in Queen Anne's County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barclay
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Smith Crossroads. See our List of 1890's Communities around Smith Crossroads.
Newspapers Published in Smith Crossroads ...
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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Smith Crossroads.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Smith Crossroads, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Smith Crossroads.
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 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 Smith Crossroads:
- Websites specific to Delaware
- Pages specific to Kent County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- New Castle County
- Sussex County
- Caroline County
- Cecil County
- Dorchester County
- Kent County
- Queen Anne's County
- Talbot County
- Cumberland County
- Salem County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Delaware
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> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Smith Crossroads) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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> | 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 Smith Crossroads, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |