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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Topocapa. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Topocapa to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Topocapa, please Contact Us.

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 Topocapa (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 Topocapa. 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 and hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Topocapa is historic, it would have been located within present day Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Leon, Madison, Taylor, Wakulla, Brooks (GA) & Thomas (GA).

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

  • Jefferson County     (The home county of Topocapa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Topocapa, with the one closest to Topocapa listed first.
    • Thomas City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Thomas City is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas City
    • Wacissa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Waukeenah
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Lamont
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lloyd
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Aucilla
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Aucilla is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aucilla
    • Monticello
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Franklin County
  • Leon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Topocapa, with the one closest to Topocapa listed first.
    • Woodville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Capitola
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Capitola is located in Leon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitola
    • Tallahassee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Miccosukee
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Bradfordville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Bradfordville is located in Leon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradfordville
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Topocapa, with the one closest to Topocapa listed first.
    • Shady Grove
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Perry
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Wakulla County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Topocapa, with the one closest to Topocapa listed first.
    • Saint Marks
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Wakulla Springs
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Crawfordville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Panacea
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Sopchoppy
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Topocapa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Topocapa.

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

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

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

  • Magnolia Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Rocky Ford Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Mays Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Godwin Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Broomsage Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Walker Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Raher Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Lott Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Walker Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Rhodes Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodville Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 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 <3>
  • Continue List   (82 more) ...
    • Causseaux Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Richardson Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Debra Nell Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 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.

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

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

  • Newport
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Newport is located in Wakulla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
  • Waylonzo
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Waylonzo is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waylonzo
  • Saint Marks
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Wacissa
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Wakulla
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Wakulla is located in Wakulla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakulla
  • Woodville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Waukeenah
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Iddo
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Iddo is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iddo
  • Lamont
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Chaires
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Chaires is located in Leon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chaires
  • Crawfordville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Lloyd
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Tallahassee
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Perry
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Aucilla
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Aucilla is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aucilla

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

Newspapers Published in Topocapa ...

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 73 newspapers that have been published in the area around Topocapa.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Topocapa, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Topocapa.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Topocapa:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Topocapa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Topocapa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.