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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 Davie (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 Davie. 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.

Davie is located in Broward 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 Broward County: Collier, Hendry, Miami-Dade & Palm Beach.

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

  • Broward County     (The home county of Davie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Davie, with the one closest to Davie listed first.
    • Playland Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Playland Village is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Playland Village
    • Pine Island Ridge
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Pine Island Ridge is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Island Ridge
    • Cooper City
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Fern Crest Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Fern Crest Village is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern Crest Village
    • Royal Palm Ranches
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Royal Palm Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Ranches
    • Edgewater
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Edgewater is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater
    • Hacienda Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Hacienda Village is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hacienda Village
    • Plantation
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Broadview Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Broadview Park is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadview Park
    • Chambers Estates
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Chambers Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers Estates
    • Sunshine Acres
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Sunshine Acres is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunshine Acres
    • Chula Vista
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Chula Vista is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chula Vista
    • Broward Estates
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Broward Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broward Estates
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Davie, with the one closest to Davie listed first.
    • Andover
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Lake Lucerne
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Lake Lucerne is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lucerne
    • Carol City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Miami Gardens
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Norland
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Norland is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norland
    • Scott Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Scott Lake is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott Lake
    • Ives Estates
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Ives Estates is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ives Estates
    • Country Club
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club
    • Bunche Park
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Bunche Park is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunche Park
    • Aventura
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Palm Springs North
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Golden Glades
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Golden Glades is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Glades
    • Golden Beach
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Golden Beach is located in Miami-Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 931 people
  • Palm Beach County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Davie, with the one closest to Davie listed first.
    • Boca Pointe
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Boca Del Mar
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
    • Mission Bay
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
    • Boca Raton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Boca West
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Whisper Walk
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
    • Highland Beach
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Yamato
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Deem City ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Kings Point
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Kings Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Point
    • High Point
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • High Point is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point

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

Cemeteries Near Davie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Davie.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Davie, with the one closest to Davie 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 Davie in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Davie.

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Davie ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Davie.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Davie. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Davie and those printed in the larger area surrounding Davie.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<4> of Davie.

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 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 Davie:

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 Davie, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Davie) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.