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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 Plantation Mobile Home Park (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 Plantation Mobile Home Park. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Plantation Mobile Home Park is located in Palm Beach 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 Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

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

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Plantation Mobile Home Park)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Plantation Mobile Home Park, with the one closest to Plantation Mobile Home Park listed first.
    • Century Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Century Village is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Century Village
    • Lake Belvedere Estates
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Stacey Street
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Stacey Street is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacey Street
    • Cypress Lakes
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Cypress Lakes is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Lakes
    • Schall Circle
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Schall Circle is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schall Circle
    • Royal Palm Estates
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Royal Palm Estates is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Estates
    • Golfview
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Golfview is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golfview
    • Haverhill
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Lakeside Green
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Lakeside Green is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside Green
    • Gun Club Estates
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Gun Club Estates is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gun Club Estates
    • Golden Lakes
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Golden Lakes is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Lakes
    • Cloud Lake
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Cloud Lake is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloud Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 147 people
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Plantation Mobile Home Park, with the one closest to Plantation Mobile Home Park listed first.
    • Deerfield Beach
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Hillsboro Pines
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro Pines is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Pines
    • Hillsboro Ranches
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Ranches
    • The Cove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • The Cove is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Cove
    • Crystal Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Crystal Lake is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
    • Godfrey Road
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Godfrey Road is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godfrey Road
    • Hillsboro Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Parkland
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Pompano Estates
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Pompano Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompano Estates
    • Tedder
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Tedder is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tedder
    • Bonnie Lock - Woodsetter North
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Lighthouse Point
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Martin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Plantation Mobile Home Park, with the one closest to Plantation Mobile Home Park listed first.
    • Jupiter Island
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Jupiter Island is located in Martin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter Island
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 941 people
    • Hobe Sound
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Port Salerno
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Plantation Mobile Home Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Plantation Mobile Home Park.

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 Plantation Mobile Home Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Plantation Mobile Home Park, with the one closest to Plantation Mobile Home Park listed first.

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 Plantation Mobile Home Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Plantation Mobile Home Park.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Plantation Mobile Home Park, with the one closest to Plantation Mobile Home Park listed first.

  • Palm Beach
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Jupiter
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jupiter is located in Palm Beach County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jupiter
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 65,834 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jupiter <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Plantation Mobile Home Park ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Plantation Mobile Home Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Plantation Mobile Home Park, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Plantation Mobile Home Park.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Plantation Mobile Home Park:

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 Plantation Mobile Home Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Plantation Mobile Home Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.