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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 Belle Glade Camp (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 Belle Glade Camp. 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 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.

Belle Glade Camp is located in Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Belle Glade Camp)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belle Glade Camp, with the one closest to Belle Glade Camp listed first.
    • Belle Glade
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • South Bay
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Chosen ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chosen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chosen
      • Chosen is located in Palm Beach County
    • Bean City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bean City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bean City
      • Bean City is located in Palm Beach County
    • Lake Harbor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Fremd Village - Padgett Island
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Fremd Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fremd Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fremd Village
      • Fremd Village is located in Palm Beach County
    • Pahokee
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Bryant
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Canal Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Westlake
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westlake
      • Westlake is located in Palm Beach County
      • Westlake has also been known as:
      • West Lakes
    • Deem City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deem City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deem City
      • Deem City is located in Palm Beach County
    • Loxahatchee Groves
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loxahatchee Groves
      • Loxahatchee Groves is located in Palm Beach County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,623 people
  • Glades County
    • Moore Haven
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Hendry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belle Glade Camp, with the one closest to Belle Glade Camp listed first.
    • Clewiston
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Harlem
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
      • Harlem is located in Hendry County
  • Martin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belle Glade Camp, with the one closest to Belle Glade Camp listed first.
    • Port Mayaca
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Indiantown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Belle Glade Camp ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Belle Glade Camp.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Belle Glade Camp, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Belle Glade Camp.

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 websites either 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 Belle Glade Camp:

Cemeteries Near Belle Glade Camp ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Belle Glade Camp.

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 Belle Glade Camp covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Foreverglades Mausoleum Gardens
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Foreverglades Mausoleum Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Foreverglades Mausoleum Gardens
  • Ridgelawn Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ridgelawn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ridgelawn Cemetery
  • Port Mayaca Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Our Lady of Peace Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • South Florida National Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

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

The official website for Palm Beach County: www.co.palm-beach.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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>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.
<4>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- Belle Glade Camp) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Belle Glade Camp. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.6576, Longitude: -80.6828       In this case, the coordinates for Belle Glade Camp have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.




 

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