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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 Fakahatchee (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 Fakahatchee. 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.

Fakahatchee is located in Collier 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 Collier County: Broward, Hendry, Lee, Miami-Dade & Monroe.

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

  • Collier County     (The home county of Fakahatchee)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fakahatchee, with the one closest to Fakahatchee listed first.
    • Everglades City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Plantation Island
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Island
      • Plantation Island is located in Collier County
    • Chokoloskee
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Copeland
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Goodland
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Ochopee
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Jerome
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome
      • Jerome is located in Collier County
    • Marco Island
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Marco
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Marco came from an uncertain source and they still need to be verified:<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marco
      • Marco is located in Collier County
    • Lely Resort
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lely Resort have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lely Resort
      • Lely Resort is located in Collier County
    • Miles City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miles City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles City
      • Miles City is located in Collier County
    • Lely
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lely
      • Lely is located in Collier County
    • Naples Manor
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Naples Manor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naples Manor
      • Naples Manor is located in Collier County

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

Cemeteries Near Fakahatchee ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Fakahatchee.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

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

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.<4>

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

  • Naples
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Fakahatchee ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fakahatchee.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fakahatchee, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fakahatchee.

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 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 Fakahatchee:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

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

The official website for Collier County: www.co.collier.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: https://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>If we found a location and have questions about the accuracy of our information, we will simply say that the marker is 'in the vicinity'. We are not confident about the location and the position of our marker is only a rough guide. If we have too many doubts about the location, we will not include it in our database.
<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>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 Fakahatchee, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fakahatchee) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fakahatchee. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 25.8684, Longitude: -81.4892       In this case, the coordinates for Fakahatchee have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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