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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 Blitchville (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 Blitchville. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Blitchville is located in Gilchrist 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 Gilchrist County: Alachua, Columbia, Dixie, Lafayette & Levy.

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

  • Gilchrist County     (The home county of Blitchville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blitchville, with the one closest to Blitchville listed first.
    • Trenton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Fanning Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Bell
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
      • Bell is located in Gilchrist County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 510 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bell <1>
    • Waters Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waters Lake
      • Waters Lake is located in Gilchrist County
    • Little Lake City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Lake City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Lake City
      • Little Lake City is located in Gilchrist County
  • Alachua County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blitchville, with the one closest to Blitchville listed first.
    • Newberry
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jonesville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • High Springs
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Archer
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Alachua
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Burnetts Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burnetts Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnetts Lake
      • Burnetts Lake is located in Alachua County
    • Arredondo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arredondo
      • Arredondo is located in Alachua County
    • Hague
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hague
      • Hague is located in Alachua County
    • Rutledge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutledge
      • Rutledge is located in Alachua County
  • Columbia County
    • Fort White
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Dixie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blitchville, with the one closest to Blitchville listed first.
    • Suwanee Old Town ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Suwanee Old Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwanee Old Town
      • Suwanee Old Town is located in Dixie County
    • Old Town
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Cross City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Suwannee
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Horseshoe Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Steward City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steward City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steward City
      • Steward City is located in Dixie County
  • Levy County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blitchville, with the one closest to Blitchville listed first.
    • Andrews
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Andrews have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews
      • Andrews is located in Levy County
    • Manatee Road
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manatee Road have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manatee Road
      • Manatee Road is located in Levy County
    • Chiefland
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Bronson
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • East Bronson
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bronson
      • East Bronson is located in Levy County
    • Otter Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Gulf Hammock
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Raleigh
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raleigh
      • Raleigh is located in Levy County
    • Williston Highlands
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williston Highlands have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williston Highlands
      • Williston Highlands is located in Levy County
  • Suwannee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blitchville, with the one closest to Blitchville listed first.
    • Branford
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Suwannee
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwannee
      • Suwannee is located in Suwannee County
    • O'Brien
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Taylor County

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

Newspapers Published in Blitchville ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blitchville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blitchville, 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 Blitchville.

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 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 Blitchville:

Cemeteries Near Blitchville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blitchville.

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

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

  • Bethel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • The Bethel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cherry Sink Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
  • Jennings Lake Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Priscilla Baptist Church Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Midway Church of Christ Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Trenton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Trenton Community Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • McCrabb Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McCrabb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McCrabb Cemetery
  • Old Town Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Fayetteville Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fayetteville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fayetteville Cemetery
  • Shady Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shady Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shady Grove Cemetery
  • Bell Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (92 more) ...
    • Bethel Church of Christ Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • New Hope Family Church Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Pine Grove Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Grove Cemetery

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.<5>

While we didn't find Blitchville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Blitchville.

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

  • Chiefland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Bronson
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Meredith
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meredith have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meredith
    • Meredith is located in Levy County
  • Jonesville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • High Springs
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fort White
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Branford
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Ellzey
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ellzey have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellzey
    • Ellzey is located in Levy County
  • Otter Creek
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Archer
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Alachua
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Suwannee
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwannee
    • Suwannee is located in Suwannee County
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Newnansville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Newnansville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newnansville
      • Newnansville is located in Alachua County
    • Mikesville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mikesville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mikesville
      • Mikesville is located in Columbia County
    • O'Brien
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)

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

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

The official website for Gilchrist County: www.gilchrist.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- Blitchville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blitchville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.6450, Longitude: -82.8823       In this case, the coordinates for Blitchville have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Blitchville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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