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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Mannfield. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Mannfield to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mannfield, please Contact Us.

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 Mannfield (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 Mannfield. 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 Mannfield ...

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.

Other variations include: Manfield, Mannsfield and Mansfield.

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.

Although our information shows that the community of Mannfield is historic, it would have been located within present day Citrus 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 Citrus County: Hernando, Levy, Marion & Sumter.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Mannfield ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mannfield.

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

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

  • Mannfield Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Stage Pond Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • 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.
  • Lecanto Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • 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.
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • 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.
  • Stage Stand Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Dampeir Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • 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.
  • Hernando Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • 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.
  • Frazier Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • 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.
  • Williams Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • 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.
  • Hill of Rest Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • 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.
  • Beverly Hills Memorial Gardens
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • 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.
  • New Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • 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.
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    • Community Baptist Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Community Baptist Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Community Baptist Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Lake Lindsey Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • 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.
    • Crystal River Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crystal River Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crystal River 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.

Mannfield itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Mannfield ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mannfield.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Mannfield. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Mannfield and those printed in the larger area surrounding Mannfield.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<6> of Mannfield.

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 Mannfield:

The official website for Citrus County: www.bocc.citrus.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: https://www.myflorida.com/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mannfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 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>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.
<5>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.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Mannfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mannfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 28.7840, Longitude: -82.4441    









 

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