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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 Layton (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 Layton. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Layton is located in Monroe 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 Monroe County: Collier & Miami-Dade.

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

  • Monroe County     (The home county of Layton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Layton, with the one closest to Layton listed first.
    • Long Key
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Conch Key
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Matecumbe Key
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Duck Key
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Islamorada
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Key Colony Beach
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Marathon Shores
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Plantation Key
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Key have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Key
      • Plantation Key is located in Monroe County
    • Marathon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Tavernier
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Flamingo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Pigeon Key
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Sunset Point
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Layton ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Layton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Layton, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Layton.

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 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 Layton:

Cemeteries Near Layton ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Layton.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our collection of Genealogy Websites.

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

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

The official website for Monroe County: www.co.monroe.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: 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>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- Layton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Layton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 24.8247, Longitude: -80.8129       In this case, the coordinates for Layton have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024