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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 Inverness (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 Inverness. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Inverness is located in Citrus County and is the County Seat.

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 Citrus County: Hernando, Levy, Marion & Sumter.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Inverness ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Inverness.

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

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

  • Dampeir Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dampeir Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dampeir Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hill of Rest Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hill of Rest Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hill of Rest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hernando Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hernando Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hernando Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Williams Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Williams Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Williams Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Frazier Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Frazier Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Frazier Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Mannfield Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Rutland Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rutland Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rutland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lecanto Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lecanto Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lecanto Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Stage Pond Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stage Pond Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stage Pond Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bay Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bay Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bay Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Burke Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Burke Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Burke Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Shiloh Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shiloh Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shiloh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • New Church Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Church Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Lake Lindsey Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lake Lindsey Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lake Lindsey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Inverness had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Inverness had a population of 7,674 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Inverness ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Inverness.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Inverness. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Inverness and those printed in the larger area surrounding Inverness.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5> of Inverness.

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 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 Inverness:

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

The official website for Citrus County: www.bocc.citrus.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>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.
<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 Inverness, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Inverness) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Inverness. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.8326, Longitude: -82.3262    









 

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