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 Kings 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 Kings 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.
Name Variations for Kings Bay ...
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.
While the name of this community is Kings Bay, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Kings Bay may originally have been King's Bay.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Kings Bay might be written as King Bay.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Kings Bay. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Kings Bay.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.
Kings Bay is located in Miami-Dade 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 Miami-Dade County: Broward, Collier & Monroe.
Below are the counties that are near Kings Bay. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kings Bay:
- Miami-Dade County (The home county of Kings Bay)
- The following are listed by their distance from Kings Bay, with the one closest to Kings Bay listed first.
- Pinecrest
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Pinecrest is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinecrest
- Population from the 2020 Census: 19,006 people
- Pinecrest has also been known as:
- Pinecrest village
- Gables by the Sea
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Gables by the Sea is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gables by the Sea
- Gables by the Sea has also been known as:
- Coral Bay
- Cutler
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Cutler is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler
- Palmetto Bay
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Palmetto Bay is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto Bay
- Population from the 2020 Census: 24,218 people
- Palmetto Bay has also been known as:
- Palmetto Bay village
- East Perrine
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- East Perrine is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Perrine
- Perrine
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Palmetto Estates
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Palmetto Estates is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto Estates
- South Miami
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Kendall
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lakes by the Bay
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Lakes by the Bay is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakes by the Bay
- Cutler Bay
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Richmond Heights
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Richmond Heights is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Heights
- Broward County
- The following are listed by their distance from Kings Bay, with the one closest to Kings Bay listed first.
- Miramar
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Lake Forest
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Lake Forest is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Forest
- Miami Gardens
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Miami Gardens is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami Gardens
- Utopia
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Utopia is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Utopia
- West Park
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- West Park is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 15,038 people
- Carver Ranches
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Carver Ranches is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carver Ranches
- Hallandale Beach
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hallandale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hallandale is located in Broward County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallandale
- Pembroke Park
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Pembroke Pines
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- West Hollywood
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hollywood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Monroe County
- North Key Largo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- North Key Largo is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Key Largo
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Kings Bay, see our County-by-County Page for Kings Bay.
Cemeteries Near Kings Bay ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kings 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 Kings Bay - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Kings Bay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kings Bay, with the one closest to Kings Bay listed first.
- Pinelawn Memorial
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Charlotte Jane Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Miami Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Star of David Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Woodlawn Park Cemetery South
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Pine Lawn Memorial Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dade South Memorial Park
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Charlotte Jane Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Graceland Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Silver Green Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Woodlawn Park Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Flagler Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Continue List (21 more) ...
- Mt. Nebo Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Palm Memorial Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lakeside Memorial Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
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 Kings Bay in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kings Bay.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Kings Bay, with the one closest to Kings Bay listed first.
- Cutler
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Cutler is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler
- Miami
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Miami is located in Miami-Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
- Population from the 2020 Census: 471,525 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <2>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kings Bay. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kings Bay.
Newspapers Published in Kings 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 275 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kings Bay.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kings Bay, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kings Bay.
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 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 Kings Bay:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Miami-Dade County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Broward County
- Monroe County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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. |
| <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 Kings Bay, 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 from Point A (ie- Kings Bay) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |