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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Hilolo (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 Hilolo. 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 and hospitals 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.

Hilolo is located in Okeechobee 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 Okeechobee County: Glades, Highlands, Indian River, Martin, Osceola, Palm Beach & Saint Lucie.

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

  • Okeechobee County     (The home county of Hilolo)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hilolo, with the one closest to Hilolo listed first.
    • Cypress Quarters
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
    • Okeechobee
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Taylor Creek
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
  • Glades County
    • Buckhead Ridge
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Buckhead Ridge is located in Glades County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead Ridge
  • Highlands County
  • Indian River County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hilolo, with the one closest to Hilolo listed first.
    • Fellsmere
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Florida Ridge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Florida Ridge is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida Ridge
    • Vero Beach
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • South Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • South Beach is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Beach
    • Gifford
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Gifford is located in Indian River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gifford
    • Winter Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Wabasso
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Indian River Shores
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Osceola County
  • Saint Lucie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hilolo, with the one closest to Hilolo listed first.
    • Lakewood Park
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Lakewood Park is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Park
    • Saint Lucie Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Saint Lucie Village is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie Village
      • Estimated population in 2015: 619 people
    • Saint Lucie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Saint Lucie is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Lucie
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
    • Fort Pierce
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • White City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • White City is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
    • Indian River Estates
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Indian River Estates is located in Saint Lucie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River Estates
    • Port Saint Lucie
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Hilolo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hilolo.

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

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

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

  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Basinger Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Ft. Kissimmee Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • White City Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Ft. Pierce Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Garden of Heavenly Rest
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Old Sebastian Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Hilolo ...

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 Hilolo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hilolo, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hilolo.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Hilolo:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Hilolo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.