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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 Basinger (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 Basinger. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Basinger is located in Okeechobee County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Okeechobee County: Glades, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Osceola, Palm Beach & Saint Lucie.

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

  • Okeechobee County     (The home county of Basinger)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Basinger, with the one closest to Basinger listed first.
    • Okeechobee
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Cypress Quarters
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cypress Quarters have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
    • Taylor Creek
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
      • Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
  • Glades County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Basinger, with the one closest to Basinger listed first.
    • Buckhead Ridge
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead Ridge
      • Buckhead Ridge is located in Glades County
    • Lakeport
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Highlands County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Basinger, with the one closest to Basinger listed first.
    • Lorida
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Sylvan Shores
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sylvan Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Shores
      • Sylvan Shores is located in Highlands County
    • Lake Placid
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • De Soto City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for De Soto City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Soto City
      • De Soto City is located in Highlands County
    • Archbold
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archbold
      • Archbold is located in Highlands County
    • Placid Lakes
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placid Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placid Lakes
      • Placid Lakes is located in Highlands County
    • Sebring
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Osceola County
  • Polk County
    • Cacema Town ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cacema Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cacema Town
      • Cacema Town is located in Polk County

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

Newspapers Published in Basinger ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Basinger.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Basinger, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Basinger.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Basinger:

Cemeteries Near Basinger ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Basinger.

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

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

  • Basinger Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Basinger Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Basinger Cemetery
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • 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
  • Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
  • Ft. Kissimmee Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Kissimmee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Kissimmee Cemetery
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oak Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oak Hill Cemetery
  • Lakeside Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lakeside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Cemetery
  • Pinecrest Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pinecrest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pinecrest Cemetery

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

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

The official website for Okeechobee County: www.co.okeechobee.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: www.myflorida.com/

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Basinger) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Basinger. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.4003, Longitude: -81.0165       In this case, the coordinates for Basinger have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024