Our Genealogy Helper
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 Neilhurst (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 Neilhurst. 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 and doctors 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.
Neilhurst is located in Clay 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 Clay County: Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Duval, Putnam & Saint Johns.
Below are the counties that are near Neilhurst. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Neilhurst:
- Clay County (The home county of Neilhurst)
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Lakeside
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lakeside is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside
- Orange Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Doctors Inlet
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Bellair - Meadowbrook Terrace
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Asbury Lake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Asbury Lake is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asbury Lake
- Middleburg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Green Cove Springs
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Penney Farms
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsley
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsley is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsley
- Kingsley Lake
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsley Lake is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsley Lake
- Kingsley Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Kingsley Village is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsley Village
- Keystone Heights
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Geneva
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Baker County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- MacClenny
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Glen Saint Mary
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Bradford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Lawtey
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Starke
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hampton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Duval County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Mandarin
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Mandarin is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandarin
- Loretto
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Loretto is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loretto
- Jacksonville Heights
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Bowden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bowden is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowden
- Normandy Village
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- San Marco
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- San Marco is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Marco
- Saint Nicholas
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Nicholas is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Nicholas
- Brooklyn
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Brooklyn is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn
- Jacksonville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Arlington
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Arlington is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arlington
- Magnolia Gardens
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Magnolia Gardens is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magnolia Gardens
- Sans Pareil
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Sans Pareil is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Pareil
- Maxville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Maxville is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxville
- Nassau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Bryceville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Crawford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Crawford is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford
- Nassau Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Nassau Village is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nassau Village
- Putnam County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Bostwick
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Federal Point
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Federal Point is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Federal Point
- Florahome
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Grandin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Putnam Hall
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Saint Johns County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Fruit Cove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Saint Johns
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Palm Valley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Palm Valley is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Valley
- Ponte Vedra
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Ponte Vedra is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponte Vedra
- Sawgrass
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Sawgrass is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawgrass
- Tocoi
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Tocoi is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tocoi
- Ponte Vedra Beach
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Vilano Beach
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Armstrong
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Armstrong is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
- Elkton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Saint Augustine
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hastings
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Union County
- Raiford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Neilhurst, see our County-by-County Page for Neilhurst.
Cemeteries Near Neilhurst ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Neilhurst.
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 Neilhurst - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Neilhurst covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Moosehaven Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Magnolia Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jacksonville Memory Gardens
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville Memory Gardens
- The Jacksonville Memory Gardens has also been known as:
- Jacksonville Memory Garden
- Rideout Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Lofton's Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Mandarin Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Church of Our Savior Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Sloans Landing Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Federal Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Middleburg Methodist Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- St. Joseph Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Continue List (102 more) ...
- Daniels Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Holly Hill Memorial Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jacksonville Memory Gardens
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Neilhurst in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Neilhurst.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Neilhurst, with the one closest to Neilhurst listed first.
- Lakeside
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lakeside is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside
- Orange Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Hibernia
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hibernia is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hibernia
- Mandarin
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Mandarin is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandarin
- Switzerland
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Switzerland is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Switzerland
- Plummers
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Plummers is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plummers
- Beauclerc
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Beauclerc is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beauclerc
- Middleburg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Green Cove Springs
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Sweetwater
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Sweetwater is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetwater
- Greenland
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Greenland is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenland
- Bowden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bowden is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowden
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Florence
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Florence is located in Saint Johns County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Bayard
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Bayard is located in Duval County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayard
- Walkill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Walkill is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walkill
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Neilhurst. See our List of 1890's Communities around Neilhurst.
Newspapers Published in Neilhurst ...
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 134 newspapers that have been published in the area around Neilhurst.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Neilhurst, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Neilhurst.
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 websites either 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 Neilhurst:
- Websites specific to Florida
- Pages specific to Clay County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Baker County
- Bradford County
- Duval County
- Nassau County
- Putnam County
- Saint Johns County
- Union County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Florida
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 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. |
| <3> | 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 Neilhurst, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Neilhurst) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |