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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 Cypress Lake (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 Cypress Lake. 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.

Name Variations for Cypress Lake ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Cypress Lake: Cypress Lk.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Cypress Lake. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cypress Lake.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Cypress Lake is located in Lee 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 Lee County: Charlotte, Collier, Glades & Hendry.

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

  • Lee County     (The home county of Cypress Lake)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cypress Lake, with the one closest to Cypress Lake listed first.
    • McGregor
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • McGregor is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGregor
    • Biggar
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Whiskey Creek
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Whiskey Creek is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiskey Creek
    • Pine Manor
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Pine Manor is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Manor
    • Villas
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Villas is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Villas
    • Harlem Heights
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Harlem Heights is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem Heights
    • Page Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Page Park is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Page Park
    • Cape Coral
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest Island Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Forest Island Park is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Island Park
    • Iona
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Iona is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iona
    • Truckland ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Truckland is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truckland
    • Fort Myers Beach
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Charlotte County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cypress Lake, with the one closest to Cypress Lake listed first.
    • Charlotte Park
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Charlotte Park is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte Park
    • Fishermens Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Fishermens Village is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishermens Village
    • Punta Gorda
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Cleveland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Cleveland is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
    • Solana
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Solana is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solana
    • Charlotte Harbor
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Placida
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Collier County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cypress Lake, with the one closest to Cypress Lake listed first.
    • Barefoot Beach
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Barefoot Beach is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barefoot Beach
    • Naples Park
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Vanderbilt Beach
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Pelican Bay
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Pine Ridge
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Pine Ridge is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge
    • North Naples
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • North Naples is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Naples
    • Vineyards
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Vineyards is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vineyards
    • Orangetree
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Orangetree is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orangetree
    • Golden Gate
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • East Naples
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • East Naples is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Naples
    • Naples
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Immokalee
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Hendry County

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

Cemeteries Near Cypress Lake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cypress Lake.

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 Cypress Lake - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.<3>

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

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

  • Punta Rassa
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Punta Rassa is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punta Rassa
  • Sanibel
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Saint James City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Buckingham
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Buckingham is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
  • Alva
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Punta Gorda
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Naples
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Cleveland
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Cleveland is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland

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

Newspapers Published in Cypress Lake ...

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 47 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cypress Lake.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cypress Lake, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cypress Lake.

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 helpful 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 Cypress Lake:

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 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.
<3>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 Cypress Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Cypress Lake) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.