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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Carlton (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 Carlton. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Carlton is located in Saint Lucie 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 Saint Lucie County: Indian River, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Saint Lucie County     (The home county of Carlton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlton, with the one closest to Carlton listed first.
    • White City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • White City is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
    • Port Saint Lucie
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Indian River Estates
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Indian River Estates is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River Estates
    • Lakewood Park
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Lakewood Park is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Park
    • Fort Pierce
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Lucie Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Lucie Village is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie Village
      • Estimated population in 2015: 619 people
    • Saint Lucie
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Saint Lucie is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
    • Hutchinson Island South
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Indian River County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlton, with the one closest to Carlton listed first.
    • Florida Ridge
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Florida Ridge is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Ridge
    • South Beach
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • South Beach is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Beach
    • Vero Beach
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Gifford
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Gifford is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gifford
    • Indian River Shores
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Winter Beach
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Wabasso
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Orchid
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Orchid is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orchid
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 455 people
    • Wabasso Beach
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Wabasso Beach is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabasso Beach
    • North Beach
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • North Beach is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Beach
  • Martin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlton, with the one closest to Carlton listed first.
    • North River Shores
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • North River Shores is located in Martin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North River Shores
    • Jensen Beach
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Ocean Breeze
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Ocean Breeze is located in Martin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocean Breeze
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 413 people
      • Former name for Ocean Breeze:
      • Ocean Breeze Park
    • Rio
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Rio is located in Martin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio
    • Stuart
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Palm City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Sewall's Point
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Port Salerno
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Indiantown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Hobe Sound
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Port Mayaca
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jupiter Island
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jupiter Island is located in Martin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter Island
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 941 people
  • Okeechobee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Carlton, with the one closest to Carlton listed first.
    • Cypress Quarters
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
    • Taylor Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
    • Okeechobee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Palm Beach County
    • Rood ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Rood is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rood

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

Cemeteries Near Carlton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Carlton.

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 Carlton - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • White City Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Ft. Pierce Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Garden of Heavenly Rest
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • All Saints Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Fern Hill Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Port Mayaca Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Old Sebastian Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Carlton. See our List of 1890's Communities around Carlton.

Newspapers Published in Carlton ...

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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Carlton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Carlton, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Carlton.

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 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 Carlton:

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>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- Carlton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.