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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 Flamingo Bay (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 Flamingo Bay. 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 doctors 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.

Flamingo Bay is located in Lee 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 Lee County: Charlotte, Collier, Glades & Hendry.

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

  • Lee County     (The home county of Flamingo Bay)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flamingo Bay, with the one closest to Flamingo Bay listed first.
    • Pine Island Center
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Pine Island Center is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Island Center
    • Matlacha
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Matlacha Isles - Matlacha Shores
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Saint James City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Pineland
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Captiva
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Captiva is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Captiva
    • Shell Point Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Shell Point Village is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Point Village
    • Pineland
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Pineland is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineland
    • Punta Rassa
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Punta Rassa is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punta Rassa
    • Cape Coral
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Iona
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Iona is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iona
    • Bokeelia
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Sanibel
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Charlotte County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flamingo Bay, with the one closest to Flamingo Bay listed first.
    • Placida
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Cape Haze
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Charlotte Park
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Charlotte Park is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlotte Park
    • Fishermens Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Fishermens Village is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishermens Village
    • Punta Gorda
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Rotonda West
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Charlotte Harbor
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Solana
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Solana is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solana
    • Cleveland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Cleveland is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
    • Harbor View
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Harbor View is located in Charlotte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor View
    • Port Charlotte
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Grove City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • El Jobean
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Collier County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flamingo Bay, with the one closest to Flamingo Bay listed first.
    • Barefoot Beach
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Barefoot Beach is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barefoot Beach
    • Vanderbilt Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Naples Park
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Pelican Bay
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Pine Ridge
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Pine Ridge is located in Collier County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Ridge

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

Cemeteries Near Flamingo Bay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Flamingo Bay.

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 Flamingo Bay - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Captiva Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Captiva Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Captiva Cemetery is located in Captiva.
    • The Captiva Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Chapel by the Sea Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1961480 <2>
  • Coral Ridge Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Sanibel Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Ft. Myers Memorial Gardens
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Coral Ridge Gardens
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Frierson - Hendry Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Hendry Frierson Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Oak Ridge Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Calvary Gardens
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Ft. Myers Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Prospect Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

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

  • Saint James City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Punta Rassa
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Punta Rassa is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Punta Rassa
  • Sanibel
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Buckingham
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Buckingham is located in Lee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
  • Punta Gorda
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Charlotte Harbor
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Grove City
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Cleveland
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Cleveland is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
  • Harbor View
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Harbor View is located in Charlotte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor View

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

Newspapers Published in Flamingo Bay ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Flamingo Bay.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Flamingo Bay:

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 Flamingo Bay, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Flamingo Bay) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.