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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 Dinner Island (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 Dinner Island. 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.

Dinner Island is located in Flagler 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 Flagler County: Putnam, Saint Johns & Volusia.

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

  • Flagler County     (The home county of Dinner Island)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dinner Island, with the one closest to Dinner Island listed first.
    • Palm Coast
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Bunnell
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Marineland
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Beverly Beach
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beverly Beach have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beverly Beach
      • Beverly Beach is located in Flagler County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 434 people
    • Korona
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Korona
      • Korona is located in Flagler County
    • Flagler Beach
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Lake County
  • Marion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dinner Island, with the one closest to Dinner Island listed first.
    • Salt Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Kerr City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kerr City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerr City
      • Kerr City is located in Marion County
  • Putnam County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dinner Island, with the one closest to Dinner Island listed first.
    • Crescent City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake Como
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • San Mateo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Crescent City Station
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crescent City Station have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent City Station
      • Crescent City Station is located in Putnam County
    • Pomona Park
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • East Palatka
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Federal Point
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Federal Point
      • Federal Point is located in Putnam County
    • Satsuma
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Palatka
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Peniel
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peniel have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peniel
      • Peniel is located in Putnam County
    • Welaka
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Georgetown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Bostwick
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Saint Johns County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dinner Island, with the one closest to Dinner Island listed first.
    • Hastings
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Armstrong
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
      • Armstrong is located in Saint Johns County
    • Elkton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Crescent Beach
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint Augustine Shores
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Augustine Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Augustine Shores
      • Saint Augustine Shores is located in Saint Johns County
    • Butler Beach
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler Beach
      • Butler Beach is located in Saint Johns County
    • Saint Augustine South
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Augustine South have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Augustine South
      • Saint Augustine South is located in Saint Johns County
    • Saint Augustine Beach
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Tocoi
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tocoi
      • Tocoi is located in Saint Johns County
    • Saint Augustine
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Vilano Beach
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Volusia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dinner Island, with the one closest to Dinner Island listed first.
    • Seville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Pierson
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Ormond-by-the-Sea
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ormond-by-the-Sea
      • Ormond-by-the-Sea is located in Volusia County
    • Tomoka Estates
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tomoka Estates
      • Tomoka Estates is located in Volusia County
    • Barberville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Emporia
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emporia
      • Emporia is located in Volusia County
    • Ormond Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Volusia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volusia
      • Volusia is located in Volusia County
    • Ellinor Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellinor Village
      • Ellinor Village is located in Volusia County
    • De Leon Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Holly Hill
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Ortona
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ortona
      • Ortona is located in Volusia County

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

Newspapers Published in Dinner Island ...

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 Dinner Island.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dinner Island, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dinner Island.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Dinner Island:

Cemeteries Near Dinner Island ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dinner Island.

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.

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

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

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

  • Espanola Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pellicer Creek Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pellicer Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pellicer Creek Cemetery
  • Yelvington Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Yelvington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yelvington Cemetery
  • Hope Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hope Cemetery
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greenwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
  • Eden Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Eden Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eden Cemetery
  • San Mateo Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the San Mateo Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the San Mateo Cemetery
  • Pomona - Lake Como Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pomona - Lake Como Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pomona - Lake Como Cemetery
  • Resthaven Cemetery & Memorial Park
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Resthaven Cemetery & Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Resthaven Cemetery & Memorial Park
  • Good Hope Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Good Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Good Hope Cemetery
  • St. Pauls Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Pauls Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Pauls Cemetery
  • Satsuma Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Satsuma Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Satsuma Cemetery
  • Continue List   (57 more) ...
    • St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Marys Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Korona.
      • The St. Marys Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
      • St. Marys Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Catholic Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #72563 <4>
    • Stickland Memorial Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Stickland Memorial Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Korona.
      • The Stickland Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Strickland Family Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stickland Memorial Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2370188 <4>
    • West View Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West View Cemetery

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.<5>

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

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

  • Yelvington
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yelvington have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yelvington
    • Yelvington is located in Putnam County
  • Crescent City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lake Como
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • San Mateo
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Huntington
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Huntington have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntington
    • Huntington is located in Putnam County
  • Sisco
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sisco have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisco
    • Sisco is located in Putnam County
  • Armstrong
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
    • Armstrong is located in Saint Johns County
  • Orange Mills
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Orange Mills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange Mills
    • Orange Mills is located in Putnam County
  • East Palatka
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Federal Point
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Federal Point
    • Federal Point is located in Putnam County
  • Lundy
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lundy have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
    • Lundy is located in Putnam County
  • Satsuma
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Bridgeport
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bridgeport have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
      • Bridgeport is located in Putnam County
    • Palatka
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Buffalo Bluff
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buffalo Bluff have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Bluff
      • Buffalo Bluff is located in Putnam County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dinner Island. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Flagler County: www.flaglercounty.org/

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

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 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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dinner Island) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dinner Island. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 29.5611, Longitude: -81.3845       In this case, the coordinates for Dinner Island have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Dinner Island, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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