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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 Brookside (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 Brookside. 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.

Brookside is located in Indian River 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 Indian River County: Brevard, Okeechobee, Osceola & Saint Lucie.

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

  • Indian River County     (The home county of Brookside)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brookside, with the one closest to Brookside listed first.
    • Fellsmere
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Roseland
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Sebastian
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Wabasso
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • North Beach
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Beach
      • North Beach is located in Indian River County
    • Orchid
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orchid have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchid
      • Orchid is located in Indian River County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 455 people
    • Winter Beach
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Wabasso Beach
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wabasso Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabasso Beach
      • Wabasso Beach is located in Indian River County
    • Gifford
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gifford have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gifford
      • Gifford is located in Indian River County
    • Indian River Shores
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Vero Beach
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Florida Ridge
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Florida Ridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Ridge
      • Florida Ridge is located in Indian River County
    • South Beach
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Beach
      • South Beach is located in Indian River County
  • Brevard County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brookside, with the one closest to Brookside listed first.
    • Barefoot Bay
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Micco
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Grant
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Grant - Valkaria
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Malabar
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Palm Bay
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Melbourne Beach
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Melbourne
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • West Melbourne
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Indialantic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • June Park
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for June Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for June Park
      • June Park is located in Brevard County
    • Melbourne Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melbourne Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melbourne Village
      • Melbourne Village is located in Brevard County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 692 people
    • Eau Gallie
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eau Gallie
      • Eau Gallie is located in Brevard County
  • Osceola County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brookside, with the one closest to Brookside listed first.
    • Yeehaw Junction
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Kenansville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Saint Lucie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Brookside, with the one closest to Brookside listed first.
    • Lakewood Park
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakewood Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Park
      • Lakewood Park is located in Saint Lucie County
    • Saint Lucie Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Lucie Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie Village
      • Saint Lucie Village is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Estimated population in 2015: 619 people
    • Saint Lucie
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Lucie have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie
      • Saint Lucie is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
    • Fort Pierce
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • White City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
      • White City is located in Saint Lucie County

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

Newspapers Published in Brookside ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Brookside.

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

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 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 Brookside:

Cemeteries Near Brookside ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Brookside.

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

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

  • Old Sebastian Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Sebastian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Sebastian Cemetery
  • Celia Padgett Cain Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Sebastian Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sebastian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sebastian Cemetery
  • Grant Community Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
  • Fountainhead Memorial Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 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
  • Garden of Heavenly Rest
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Garden of Heavenly Rest have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garden of Heavenly Rest
  • Ft. Pierce Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Pierce Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Pierce Cemetery
  • White City Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White City 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 Brookside in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Brookside.

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

  • Sebastian
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Micco
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Valkaria
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valkaria have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valkaria
    • Valkaria is located in Brevard County
  • Malabar
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Melbourne
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Eau Gallie
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eau Gallie
    • Eau Gallie is located in Brevard County
  • Tropic
    (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 Brookside. See our List of 1890's Communities around Brookside.

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

The official website for Indian River County: www.ircgov.com/

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Brookside) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Brookside. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 27.7675, Longitude: -80.5514       In this case, the coordinates for Brookside 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 Brookside, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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