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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 Pams Place (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 Pams Place. 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 Pams Place ...

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 Pams Place: Pams Pl. (or less commonly used: Pams Plc.)
  • While the name of this community is Pams Place, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Pams Place may originally have been Pam's Place.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Pams Place might be written as Pam Place.

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.

Pams Place is located in 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 Pams Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pams Place:

  • Hillsborough County     (The home county of Pams Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pams Place, with the one closest to Pams Place listed first.
    • South Plant City Farms
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • South Plant City Farms is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Plant City Farms
    • Parrish
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Parrish is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parrish
    • Kings Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Kings Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Village
    • West Plant City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • West Plant City is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Plant City
    • Woodfield Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Woodfield Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodfield Village
    • Colonial Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Colonial Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • Plant City Heights
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Plant City Heights is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plant City Heights
    • Plant City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • West Plant City Farms
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • West Plant City Farms is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Plant City Farms
    • Cedar Run
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Cedar Run is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Run
    • Strawberry Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Strawberry Village is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strawberry Village
    • Welcome
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Welcome is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welcome
  • Hardee County
    • Bowling Green
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Manatee County
  • Pasco County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pams Place, with the one closest to Pams Place listed first.
    • Crystal Springs
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Crystal Springs is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Springs
    • Zephyrhills
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Richland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Richland is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
    • Wesley Chapel South
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Wesley Chapel South is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wesley Chapel South
    • Wesley Chapel
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint Leo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Dade City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Land O' Lakes
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • San Antonio
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • San Antonio is located in Pasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonio
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,506 people
      • Former name for San Antonio:
      • Lake Jovita
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for San Antonio <2>
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pams Place, with the one closest to Pams Place listed first.
    • Willow Oak
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Willow Oak is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Oak
    • Nichols
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Medulla
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Medulla is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medulla
    • Lakeland Highlands
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Lakeland Highlands is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeland Highlands
    • Winston
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Winston is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston
    • Mulberry
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lakeland
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Acton ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Acton is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acton
    • Eaton Park
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Highland City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Crystal Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Crystal Lake is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
    • Bradley Junction
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bradley Junction is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley Junction

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

Cemeteries Near Pams Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pams Place.

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 Pams Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Willow Oak Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Springhead Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Prairie Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Cemetery
    • The Prairie Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bone Valley Cemetery
    • Fuller Heights Cemetery
    • Laurel Hill Cemetery
    • Shiloh Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #72484 <3>
  • Little Alafia Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Blue Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Fitzgerald Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Medulla Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Hopewell Memorial Gardens
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Hunter Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Garden of Peace Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • New Home Baptist Church Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Memorial Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (116 more) ...
    • Oaklawn Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Memorial Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Lithia Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)

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>

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

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

  • Keysville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Keysville is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keysville
  • Plant City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lakeland
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Sydney
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Knights
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Knights is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knights
  • Bloomingdale
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Bloomingdale is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingdale
  • Keene
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Keene is located in Hillsborough County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keene
  • Valrico
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Kathleen
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Seffner
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Brandon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Bartow
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Gordonville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Gordonville is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordonville
    • Mango
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Limona
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Limona is located in Hillsborough County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limona

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

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 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 Pams Place:

Footnotes ...

<1>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).
<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 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.
<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 Pams Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.