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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 Duck Key (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 Duck Key. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Duck Key is located in 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 Duck Key. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Duck Key:

  • Monroe County     (The home county of Duck Key)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Duck Key, with the one closest to Duck Key listed first.
    • Conch Key
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Long Key
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Layton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Layton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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
    • Key Colony Beach
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Marathon Shores
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Marathon
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Matecumbe Key
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Pigeon Key
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Islamorada
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Flamingo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Plantation Key
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Key have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key
      • Plantation Key is located in Monroe County
    • Big Pine Key
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Tavernier
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Duck Key ...

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 Duck Key.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Duck Key, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Duck Key.

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 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 Duck Key:

Cemeteries Near Duck Key ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Duck Key.

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).

  • Memorial Gardens of the Keys
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Gardens of the Keys have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Gardens of the Keys

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

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

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

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' (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- Duck Key) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Duck Key. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 24.7720, Longitude: -80.9125    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024