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Introduction ...

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

We've added McQueens Village to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with McQueens Village, 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 McQueens Village (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 McQueens Village. 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 McQueens Village ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for McQueens Village: McQueens Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)
  • While the name of this community is McQueens Village, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So McQueens Village may originally have been McQueen's Village.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case McQueens Village might be written as McQueen Village.

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 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 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 McQueens Village is historic, it would have been located within present day Hillsborough 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 Hillsborough County: Hardee, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas & Polk.

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

  • Hillsborough County     (The home county of McQueens Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McQueens Village, with the one closest to McQueens Village listed first.
    • Apollo Key Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Apollo Key Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apollo Key Village
    • Marina Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Marina Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marina Village
    • Apollo Beach
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Golf and Sea Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Golf and Sea Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golf and Sea Village
    • Edgewater Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Edgewater Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewater Village
    • Adamsville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Adamsville is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamsville
    • Garden City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Garden City is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden City
    • Ruskin
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Cypress Creek Village
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Cypress Creek Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Creek Village
    • Gibsonton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bayou Pass Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Bayou Pass Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayou Pass Village
    • Gulf City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Gulf City is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulf City
  • Manatee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McQueens Village, with the one closest to McQueens Village listed first.
    • Parrish
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Terra Ceia
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Ellenton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Memphis
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Memphis is located in Manatee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memphis
    • Palmetto
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Bradenton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Samoset
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Samoset is located in Manatee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Samoset
    • West Samoset
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • West Samoset is located in Manatee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Samoset
    • Palma Sola
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • West Bradenton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • West Bradenton is located in Manatee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bradenton
    • Oneco
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Duette
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Pasco County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McQueens Village, with the one closest to McQueens Village listed first.
    • Odessa
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Land O' Lakes
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Pinellas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McQueens Village, with the one closest to McQueens Village listed first.
    • Gandy
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Gandy is located in Pinellas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gandy
    • Saint Petersburg
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Lealman
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Lealman is located in Pinellas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lealman
    • Feather Sound
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Gulfport
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Pinellas Park
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Kenneth City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • High Point
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • High Point is located in Pinellas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point
    • South Pasadena
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • South Pasadena is located in Pinellas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pasadena
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,067 people
    • Tierra Verde
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • South Highpoint
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • South Highpoint is located in Pinellas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Highpoint
    • Saint Pete Beach
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McQueens Village, with the one closest to McQueens Village listed first.
    • Nichols
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Willow Oak
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Willow Oak is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Oak
    • Bradley Junction
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Bradley Junction is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley Junction
    • Brewster ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Brewster is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brewster
    • Mulberry
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Medulla
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Medulla is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medulla
    • Winston
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Winston is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston
  • Sarasota County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McQueens Village, with the one closest to McQueens Village listed first.
    • Desoto Lakes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Desoto Lakes is located in Sarasota County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desoto Lakes
    • North Sarasota
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • North Sarasota is located in Sarasota County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Sarasota
    • Kensington Park
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Kensington Park is located in Sarasota County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kensington Park
    • The Meadows
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • The Meadows is located in Sarasota County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Meadows

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

Cemeteries Near McQueens Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McQueens Village.

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 McQueens Village - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for McQueens Village covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Ruskin Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Ruskin Memorial Gardens
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Samford Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hackney - Riverview Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackney - Riverview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hackney - Riverview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Tampa.
    • The Hackney - Riverview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hackney Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #72067 <4>
  • Serenity Meadows Memorial Park
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • American Legion Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Oaklawn Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Commemorative Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Centro Espanol Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centro Espanol Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Centro Espanol Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Tampa.
    • The Centro Espanol Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cemeterio Espanol
    • Centro Espanol Memorial Park Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2355874 <4>
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Marti Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Hillsboro Memorial Gardens
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (77 more) ...
    • Limona Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limona Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Limona Cemetery is located in Brandon.
    • Centro Asturiano Memorial Park Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centro Asturiano Memorial Park Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Centro Asturiano Memorial Park Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Tampa.
      • The Centro Asturiano Memorial Park Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Centro Asturiano Cemetery
      • Centro Asturiano Memorial Park
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71836 <4>
    • Centro Espanol Memorial Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centro Espanol Memorial Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Centro Espanol Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Tampa.
      • The Centro Espanol Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Centro Espanol Cemetery
      • Memorial Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #71837 <4>

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.

While we didn't find McQueens Village in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of McQueens Village.

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

  • Gulf City
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Gulf City is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gulf City
  • Port Tampa
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Port Tampa is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Tampa
  • Peru ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Peru is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
  • Ybor City
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Ybor City is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ybor City
  • Tampa
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Tampa is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tampa
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 407,599 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tampa <3>
  • Brandon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Limona
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Limona is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limona
  • Erie
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Erie is located in Manatee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erie
  • Bloomingdale
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Bloomingdale is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingdale
  • Valrico
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Mango
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Terra Ceia
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in McQueens Village ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around McQueens Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McQueens Village, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McQueens Village.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 McQueens Village:

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 McQueens Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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).
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- McQueens Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.