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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Bucker Womans Town. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Bucker Womans Town to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bucker Womans Town, please Contact Us.

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 Bucker Womans Town (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 Bucker Womans Town. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Bucker Womans Town is historic, it would have been located within present day Sumter 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 Sumter County: Citrus, Hernando, Lake, Marion, Pasco & Polk.

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

  • Sumter County     (The home county of Bucker Womans Town)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bucker Womans Town, with the one closest to Bucker Womans Town listed first.
    • Tarrytown
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Tarrytown is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarrytown
    • Webster
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Linden
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Linden is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden
    • Bushnell
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Mabel
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Mabel is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabel
    • Wahoo
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Wahoo is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahoo
    • Center Hill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Bay Hill
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Bay Hill is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Hill
    • Sumterville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Lake Panasoffkee
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Coleman
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Adamsville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Adamsville is located in Sumter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamsville
  • Citrus County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bucker Womans Town, with the one closest to Bucker Womans Town listed first.
    • Floral City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Inverness Highlands South
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Inverness
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Mannfield ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Mannfield is located in Citrus County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannfield
    • Inverness Highlands North
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Sugarmill Woods
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Sugarmill Woods is located in Citrus County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarmill Woods
    • Hernando
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Citrus Hills
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Citrus Hills is located in Citrus County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citrus Hills
    • Lecanto
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Hernando County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bucker Womans Town, with the one closest to Bucker Womans Town listed first.
    • Richloam ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Richloam is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richloam
    • Ridge Manor
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Nobleton
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Istachatta
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hill 'n Dale
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Hill 'n Dale is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill 'n Dale
    • Spring Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Spring Lake is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Lake
    • Lake Lindsey
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Lake Lindsey is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lindsey
    • Brooksville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • North Brooksville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • North Brooksville is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Brooksville
    • South Brooksville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • South Brooksville is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Brooksville
    • Ringgold ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Ringgold is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ringgold
    • Wiscon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Wiscon is located in Hernando County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiscon
  • Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bucker Womans Town, with the one closest to Bucker Womans Town listed first.
    • Mascotte
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Groveland
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Okahumpka
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Whitney
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Whitney is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
    • Montclair
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Montclair is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montclair
    • Clermont
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Leesburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Minneola
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Yalaha
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Mohawk
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Mohawk is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk
    • Fruitland Park
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Howey-in-the-Hills
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Marion County
  • Orange County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bucker Womans Town, with the one closest to Bucker Womans Town listed first.
    • Killarney
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Oakland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Pasco County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bucker Womans Town, with the one closest to Bucker Womans Town listed first.
    • Lacoochee
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Moss Town
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Moss Town is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moss Town
    • Trilby
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Blanton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Blanton is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanton
    • Dade City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Saint Leo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • San Antonio
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • San Antonio is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonio
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,506 people
      • Former name for San Antonio:
      • Lake Jovita
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for San Antonio <2>
    • Richland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Richland is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
    • Zephyrhills
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Wesley Chapel South
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Wesley Chapel South is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wesley Chapel South
    • Wesley Chapel
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Crystal Springs
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Crystal Springs is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Springs

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

Cemeteries Near Bucker Womans Town ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bucker Womans Town.

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 Bucker Womans Town - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Matchett Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Wild Cow Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Stewart Chapel Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Garden of Memories Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden of Memories Cemetery
    • The Garden of Memories Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Garden of Memories
  • Florida National Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Linden Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Trilby Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • South Sumter Evergreen Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Francis Episcopal Church Memorial Garden
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Trilby Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (83 more) ...
    • Tema Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Center Hill Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Bay Hill Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)

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.

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

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

  • Saint Catherine
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Saint Catherine is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Catherine
  • Tarrytown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Tarrytown is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarrytown
  • Webster
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Linden
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Linden is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden
  • Bushnell
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Lacoochee
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Istachatta
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Bay Hill
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bay Hill is located in Sumter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Hill
  • Blanton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Blanton is located in Pasco County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanton
  • Sumterville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Jessamine
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jessamine is located in Pasco County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jessamine
  • Mascotte
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Brooksville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Coleman
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Floral City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Bucker Womans Town ...

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 69 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bucker Womans Town.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bucker Womans Town, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bucker Womans Town.

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 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 Bucker Womans Town:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Bucker Womans Town, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bucker Womans Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.