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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 Newport (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 Newport. 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 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.

Newport is located in Wakulla 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 Wakulla County: Franklin, Jefferson, Leon & Liberty.

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

  • Wakulla County     (The home county of Newport)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newport, with the one closest to Newport listed first.
    • Saint Marks
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Wakulla Springs
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Crawfordville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Panacea
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Sopchoppy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Curtis Mill
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Curtis Mill is located in Wakulla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis Mill
  • Franklin County
  • Gadsden County
    • Midway
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newport, with the one closest to Newport listed first.
    • Wacissa
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Thomas City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Thomas City is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas City
    • Waukeenah
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lloyd
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lamont
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Monticello
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Leon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Newport, with the one closest to Newport listed first.
    • Woodville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Tallahassee
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Capitola
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Capitola is located in Leon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitola
    • Bradfordville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Bradfordville is located in Leon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradfordville
    • Miccosukee
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Newport ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Newport.

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 Newport - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Mays Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Raher Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Walker Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Causseaux Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Richardson Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Woodville Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Woodville.
    • The Woodville Cemetery has also been known as:
    • White Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2152016 <2>
  • Godwin Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Rhodes Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Harvey Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • East Grove Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grove Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the East Grove Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the south of Tallahassee.
    • The East Grove Cemetery has also been known as:
    • English Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2313798 <2>
  • Continue List   (67 more) ...
    • Rhodes Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Sutton Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Duggar Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Newport had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Saint Marks
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Wakulla
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Wakulla is located in Wakulla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakulla
  • Woodville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Crawfordville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Wacissa
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Chaires
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Chaires is located in Leon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaires
  • Tallahassee
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Waukeenah
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Sopchoppy
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Lloyd
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Waylonzo
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Waylonzo is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waylonzo
  • Curtis Mill
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Curtis Mill is located in Wakulla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curtis Mill
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Saint Teresa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Lamont
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Bradfordville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Bradfordville is located in Leon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradfordville

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Newport ...

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 69 newspapers that have been published in the area around Newport.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Newport. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Newport and those printed in the larger area surrounding Newport.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Newport.

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 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 Newport:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Newport) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Newport, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.