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Introduction ...

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

We've added Craig to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Craig, 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 Craig (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 Craig. 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 hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Craig is historic, it would have been located within present day Monroe 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 Monroe County: Collier & Miami-Dade.

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

  • Monroe County     (The home county of Craig)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Matecumbe Key
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Layton
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Layton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layton
      • Layton is located in Monroe County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
    • Long Key
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Conch Key
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Islamorada
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Duck Key
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Plantation Key
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Key have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key
      • Plantation Key is located in Monroe County
    • Key Colony Beach
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Tavernier
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Marathon Shores
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sunset Point
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Marathon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Flamingo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Craig ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Craig.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Craig, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Craig.

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 Craig:

Cemeteries Near Craig ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Craig.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our collection of Genealogy Websites.

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

The official website for Monroe County: www.co.monroe.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: www.myflorida.com/

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 Craig, 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 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Craig) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Craig. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 24.8387, Longitude: -80.7581       In this case, the coordinates for Craig have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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