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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 Fort Centre (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 Fort Centre. 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.

Name Variations for Fort Centre ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Fort Centre: Ft. Centre

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Fort Centre is located in Glades 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 Glades County: Charlotte, DeSoto, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Martin, Okeechobee & Palm Beach.

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

  • Glades County     (The home county of Fort Centre)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Centre, with the one closest to Fort Centre listed first.
    • Lakeport
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Moore Haven
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Palmdale
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Hall City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hall City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall City
      • Hall City is located in Glades County
    • Buckhead Ridge
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead Ridge
      • Buckhead Ridge is located in Glades County
  • Hendry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Centre, with the one closest to Fort Centre listed first.
    • Clewiston
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Harlem
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
      • Harlem is located in Hendry County
    • Port La Belle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port La Belle
      • Port La Belle is located in Hendry County
    • La Belle
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sears ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sears. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
      • Sears is located in Hendry County
  • Highlands County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Centre, with the one closest to Fort Centre listed first.
    • Venus
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Archbold
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archbold
      • Archbold is located in Highlands County
    • Placid Lakes
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placid Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placid Lakes
      • Placid Lakes is located in Highlands County
    • Lake Placid
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sylvan Shores
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sylvan Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvan Shores
      • Sylvan Shores is located in Highlands County
  • Lee County
    • Charleston Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston Park
      • Charleston Park is located in Lee County
  • Okeechobee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Centre, with the one closest to Fort Centre listed first.
    • Okeechobee
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Cypress Quarters
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cypress Quarters have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
    • Taylor Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
      • Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
  • Palm Beach County

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

Cemeteries Near Fort Centre ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fort Centre.

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 Fort Centre covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Ortona Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Ridgelawn Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ridgelawn Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ridgelawn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ft. Denaud Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Denaud Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Denaud Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oak Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oak Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Fort Centre ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fort Centre.

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

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 Fort Centre:

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

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>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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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>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- Fort Centre) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Centre. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.9548, Longitude: -81.1617       In this case, the coordinates for Fort Centre have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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