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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 Atlantic Heights (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 Atlantic Heights. 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 Atlantic Heights ...

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 Atlantic Heights: Atlantic Hts. (in Canada, 'Hgts.' is the more common abbreviation.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Atlantic Heights. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Atlantic Heights.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Atlantic Heights is located in Miami-Dade County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Miami-Dade County: Broward, Collier & Monroe.

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

  • Miami-Dade County     (The home county of Atlantic Heights)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atlantic Heights, with the one closest to Atlantic Heights listed first.
    • Isle of Normandy
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Isle of Normandy is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle of Normandy
      • Isle of Normandy has also been known as:
      • Normandy Isle
      • Normandy
    • Surfside
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Indian Creek Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Indian Creek Village is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek Village
    • Indian Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Indian Creek is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
    • Normandy Shores
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Normandy Shores is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Normandy Shores
    • Bal Harbour
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Bay Harbor Islands
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • North Bay Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Biscayne Park
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Biscayne Park is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biscayne Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,018 people
    • Miami Beach
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • El Portal
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • El Portal is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Portal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,355 people
    • Lemon City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Lemon City is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemon City
    • Miami Shores
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Atlantic Heights, with the one closest to Atlantic Heights listed first.
    • Hallandale Beach
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Hallandale
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Hallandale is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallandale
    • Pembroke Park
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Lake Forest
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake Forest is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Forest
    • West Park
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • West Park is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15,038 people
    • Hollywood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Carver Ranches
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Carver Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Ranches
    • Miami Gardens
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Miami Gardens is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami Gardens
    • Utopia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Utopia is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
    • West Hollywood
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Dania Beach
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Dania
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Dania is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dania
    • Oak Point
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Oak Point is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Point

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

Cemeteries Near Atlantic Heights ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Atlantic Heights.

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 Atlantic Heights - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Southern Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Southern Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Southern Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in North Miami Beach.
    • The Southern Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Caballero Rivero Southern Memorial Park
    • Memorial Plan Southern Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #640549 <2>
  • City Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Miami City Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami City Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Miami City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Miami.
    • The Miami City Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Biscayne Park Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71852 <2>
  • Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Mt. Sinai Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Miami Shores Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Dade Memorial Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Lincoln Evergreen Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Lincoln Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Evergreen Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Woodlawn Park Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (33 more) ...
    • Mt. Nebo Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Flagler Memorial Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Graceland Memorial Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)

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 Atlantic Heights in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Atlantic Heights.

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

  • Miami
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Miami is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 471,525 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <1>
  • Cutler
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Cutler is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler

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

Newspapers Published in Atlantic Heights ...

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 294 newspapers that have been published in the area around Atlantic Heights.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Atlantic Heights, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Atlantic Heights.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Atlantic Heights:

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