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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 Peter Fouchard Grant (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 Peter Fouchard Grant. 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 southwest 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 south.

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 south 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.

Peter Fouchard Grant is located in Brevard 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 Brevard County: Indian River, Orange, Osceola & Volusia.

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

  • Brevard County     (The home county of Peter Fouchard Grant)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Peter Fouchard Grant, with the one closest to Peter Fouchard Grant listed first.
    • Scottsmoor
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Aurantia
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Aurantia is located in Brevard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurantia
    • Turnbull
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Turnbull is located in Brevard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbull
    • Mims
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Titusville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Indian River City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Indian River City is located in Brevard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River City
    • Port Saint John
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Port Saint John is located in Brevard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Saint John
    • Sharpes
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Cocoa
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Cocoa is located in Brevard County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cocoa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,694 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cocoa <1>
    • Port Canaveral
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Orange County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Peter Fouchard Grant, with the one closest to Peter Fouchard Grant listed first.
    • Christmas
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Bithlo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Bithlo is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bithlo
    • Wedgefield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Wedgefield is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wedgefield
    • Alafaya
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Union Park
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Goldenrod
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Aloma
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Azalea Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Winter Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Seminole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Peter Fouchard Grant, with the one closest to Peter Fouchard Grant listed first.
    • Geneva
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Chuluota
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Iowa City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Iowa City is located in Seminole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iowa City
    • Cameron City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Cameron City is located in Seminole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cameron City
    • Indian Mound Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Indian Mound Village is located in Seminole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Mound Village
    • Oviedo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Oviedo is located in Seminole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oviedo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 41,652 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oviedo <1>
    • Midway
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Midway is located in Seminole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
    • Sanford
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Lake Mary
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Lake Monroe
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Winter Springs
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Casselberry
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Volusia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Peter Fouchard Grant, with the one closest to Peter Fouchard Grant listed first.
    • Maytown
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Maytown is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maytown
    • Oak Hill
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Cow Creek
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Cow Creek is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Creek
    • Edgewater
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Ambrose Hull Grant
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Ambrose Hull Grant is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ambrose Hull Grant
    • Kalamazoo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Kalamazoo is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalamazoo
    • Lemon Bluff
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Lemon Bluff is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemon Bluff
    • Mission City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Mission City is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission City
    • New Smyrna Beach
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Alamana
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Alamana is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamana
    • Glencoe
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Glencoe is located in Volusia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe
    • Osteen
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Peter Fouchard Grant ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Peter Fouchard Grant.

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 Peter Fouchard Grant - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • St.s & Sinners Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St.s & Sinners Cemetery
    • The St.s & Sinners Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Saints Cemetery
  • Sinners Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Davis Grave Site
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Crook Family Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Clinton Family Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Sea Pines Memorial Gardens
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Oaklynn Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Edgewater New Smyrna Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Geneva Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Chuluota Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Glencoe - Geiger Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe - Geiger Cemetery
    • The Glencoe - Geiger Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Glenco - Geiger Cemetery
  • Continue List   (47 more) ...
    • Detwiller Park Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Detwiller Park Cemetery
      • The Detwiller Park Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Coronado Beach Cemetery
      • Detwiler Park Cemetery
    • Dummitt Gravesite
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Larkin Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)

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 Peter Fouchard Grant in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Peter Fouchard Grant.

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

  • Aurantia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Aurantia is located in Brevard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurantia
  • Maytown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Maytown is located in Volusia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maytown
  • Turnbull
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Turnbull is located in Brevard County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnbull
  • Oak Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Mims
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Cow Creek
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Cow Creek is located in Volusia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cow Creek
  • Titusville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Glencoe
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Glencoe is located in Volusia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glencoe
  • Osteen
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • New Smyrna ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • New Smyrna is located in Volusia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Smyrna
  • Ponce Park ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Ponce Park is located in Volusia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponce Park
  • Enterprise
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Port Orange
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Sharpes
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Lake Helen
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Peter Fouchard Grant ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Peter Fouchard Grant.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Peter Fouchard Grant, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Peter Fouchard Grant.

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 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 Peter Fouchard Grant:

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 Peter Fouchard Grant, 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- Peter Fouchard Grant) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.