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Introduction ...

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

We've added Deem City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Deem City, 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 Deem City (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 Deem City. 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 Deem City is historic, it would have been located within present day Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Deem City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deem City, with the one closest to Deem City listed first.
    • Shawano ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shawano. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawano
      • Shawano is located in Palm Beach County
      • Shawano has also been known as:
      • Browns Farm
      • Shawano Village
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Shawano
      • From Deem City to Shawano
    • Mission Bay
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mission Bay have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bay
      • Mission Bay is located in Palm Beach County
    • Sandalfoot Cove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Okeelanta ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Okeelanta. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okeelanta
      • Okeelanta is located in Palm Beach County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Okeelanta
      • From Deem City to Okeelanta
    • Hamptons at Boca Raton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamptons at Boca Raton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamptons at Boca Raton
      • Hamptons at Boca Raton is located in Palm Beach County
    • Whisper Walk
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whisper Walk have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whisper Walk
      • Whisper Walk is located in Palm Beach County
    • Boca Pointe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boca Pointe have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Pointe
      • Boca Pointe is located in Palm Beach County
    • Boca West
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boca West have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca West
      • Boca West is located in Palm Beach County
    • Boca Del Mar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boca Del Mar have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boca Del Mar
      • Boca Del Mar is located in Palm Beach County
    • Belle Glade Camp
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Boca Raton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Belle Glade
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Broward County
  • Miami-Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deem City, with the one closest to Deem City listed first.
    • Country Club
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Country Club have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club
      • Country Club is located in Miami-Dade County
    • Palm Springs North
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Deem City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Deem City.

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 Deem City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Deem City ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Deem City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Deem City, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Deem City.

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 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 Deem City:

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 Deem City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Deem City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Deem City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.3368, Longitude: -80.5395       In this case, the coordinates for Deem City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).