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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 Monkey Box (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 Monkey Box. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Monkey Box is located in Glades 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 Glades County: Charlotte, DeSoto, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Martin, Okeechobee & Palm Beach.

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

  • Glades County     (The home county of Monkey Box)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monkey Box, with the one closest to Monkey Box listed first.
    • Lakeport
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Moore Haven
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Buckhead Ridge
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead Ridge
      • Buckhead Ridge is located in Glades County
    • Palmdale
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Hall City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hall City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hall City
      • Hall City is located in Glades County
  • Hendry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monkey Box, with the one closest to Monkey Box listed first.
    • Clewiston
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Harlem
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
      • Harlem is located in Hendry County
    • Port La Belle
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port La Belle
      • Port La Belle is located in Hendry County
    • La Belle
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sears ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sears have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sears
      • Sears is located in Hendry County
  • Highlands County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monkey Box, with the one closest to Monkey Box listed first.
    • Venus
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Archbold
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archbold
      • Archbold is located in Highlands County
    • Placid Lakes
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Placid Lakes have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placid Lakes
      • Placid Lakes is located in Highlands County
  • Martin County
  • Okeechobee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monkey Box, with the one closest to Monkey Box listed first.
    • Okeechobee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Taylor Creek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Creek
      • Taylor Creek is located in Okeechobee County
    • Cypress Quarters
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cypress Quarters have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
  • Palm Beach County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monkey Box, with the one closest to Monkey Box listed first.
    • Lake Harbor
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Pahokee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Bean City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bean City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bean City
      • Bean City is located in Palm Beach County
    • Canal Point
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Fremd Village - Padgett Island
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Fremd Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fremd Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fremd Village
      • Fremd Village is located in Palm Beach County
    • Chosen ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chosen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chosen
      • Chosen is located in Palm Beach County
    • Bryant
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • South Bay
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Belle Glade
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Belle Glade Camp
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belle Glade Camp have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Glade Camp
      • Belle Glade Camp is located in Palm Beach County

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

Newspapers Published in Monkey Box ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Monkey Box.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Monkey Box, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Monkey Box.

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 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 Monkey Box:

Cemeteries Near Monkey Box ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Monkey Box.

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

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

  • Ridgelawn Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ridgelawn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ridgelawn Cemetery
  • Ortona Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
  • Foreverglades Mausoleum Gardens
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Foreverglades Mausoleum Gardens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Foreverglades Mausoleum Gardens
  • Port Mayaca Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

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

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>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.
<4>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- Monkey Box) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Monkey Box. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.9331, Longitude: -81.0559       In this case, the coordinates for Monkey Box have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.




 

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