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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 Eugene (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 Eugene. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Eugene is located in Dixie 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 Dixie County: Gilchrist, Lafayette, Levy & Taylor.

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

  • Dixie County     (The home county of Eugene)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eugene, with the one closest to Eugene listed first.
    • Cross City
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Old Town
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Suwanee Old Town ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Suwanee Old Town is located in Dixie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwanee Old Town
    • Horseshoe Beach
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Steward City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Steward City is located in Dixie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steward City
    • Suwannee
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Alachua County
    • Newberry
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Gilchrist County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eugene, with the one closest to Eugene listed first.
    • Fanning Springs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Trenton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Bell
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bell is located in Gilchrist County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 510 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bell <1>
    • Little Lake City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Little Lake City is located in Gilchrist County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Lake City
    • Waters Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Waters Lake is located in Gilchrist County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waters Lake
  • Lafayette County
    • Mayo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Mayo is located in Lafayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,289 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mayo <1>
  • Levy County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eugene, with the one closest to Eugene listed first.
    • Manatee Road
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Manatee Road is located in Levy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manatee Road
    • Andrews
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Andrews is located in Levy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andrews
    • Chiefland
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Otter Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Bronson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Meredith
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Meredith is located in Levy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meredith
  • Suwannee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eugene, with the one closest to Eugene listed first.
    • Suwannee
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Suwannee is located in Suwannee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwannee
    • Branford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • O'Brien
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eugene, with the one closest to Eugene listed first.
    • Steinhatchee
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Salem
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Eugene ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eugene.

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

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

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

  • Long Pond Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Shady Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Old Town Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Sandhill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • McCrabb Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Fayetteville Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel Cemetery
    • The Bethel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cherry Sink Cemetery
  • Butler Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Priscilla Baptist Church Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Midway Church of Christ Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Keen Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Pleasant Grove Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (60 more) ...
    • Antioch Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Chiefland Community Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Hardee Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)

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 Eugene in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Eugene.

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

  • Chiefland
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Suwannee
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Suwannee is located in Suwannee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suwannee
  • Branford
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Rosewood
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Rosewood is located in Levy County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosewood
  • Ellzey
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Ellzey is located in Levy County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellzey
  • Otter Creek
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Salem
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Sumner
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Sumner is located in Levy County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sumner
  • Bronson
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Eugene ...

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 Eugene.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Eugene, 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 Eugene.

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 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 Eugene:

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 Eugene, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Eugene) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.