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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 Loxahatchee Groves (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 Loxahatchee Groves. 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 Loxahatchee Groves ...

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 Loxahatchee Groves: Loxahatchee Grvs.

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.

Loxahatchee Groves is located in Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Loxahatchee Groves)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Loxahatchee Groves, with the one closest to Loxahatchee Groves listed first.
    • Royal Palm Beach
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Westlake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Wellington
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Loxahatchee
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Golden Lakes
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Golden Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Lakes
      • Golden Lakes is located in Palm Beach County
    • Century Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Century Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Century Village
      • Century Village is located in Palm Beach County
    • Cypress Lakes
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cypress Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Lakes
      • Cypress Lakes is located in Palm Beach County
    • Lake Belvedere Estates
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Belvedere Estates have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Belvedere Estates
      • Lake Belvedere Estates is located in Palm Beach County
    • Plantation Mobile Home Park
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plantation Mobile Home Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Mobile Home Park
      • Plantation Mobile Home Park is located in Palm Beach County
    • Royal Palm Estates
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Royal Palm Estates have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Estates
      • Royal Palm Estates is located in Palm Beach County
    • Stacey Street
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stacey Street have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacey Street
      • Stacey Street is located in Palm Beach County
    • Golfview
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Golfview have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golfview
      • Golfview is located in Palm Beach County
    • Greenacres
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Broward County
  • Martin County

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

Cemeteries Near Loxahatchee Groves ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Loxahatchee Groves.

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

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

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 Loxahatchee Groves in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Loxahatchee Groves.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Loxahatchee Groves ...

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 48 newspapers that have been published in the area around Loxahatchee Groves.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Loxahatchee Groves, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Loxahatchee Groves.

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 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 Loxahatchee Groves:

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

The official website for Palm Beach County: www.co.palm-beach.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>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>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 Loxahatchee Groves, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Loxahatchee Groves) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Loxahatchee Groves. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.7065, Longitude: -80.2657    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Mar 2025