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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 Wagon Wheel (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 Wagon Wheel. 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.

Wagon Wheel is located in Collier County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Collier County: Broward, Hendry, Lee, Miami-Dade & Monroe.

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

  • Collier County     (The home county of Wagon Wheel)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wagon Wheel, with the one closest to Wagon Wheel listed first.
    • Miles City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miles City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles City
      • Miles City is located in Collier County
    • Jerome
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome
      • Jerome is located in Collier County
    • Ochopee
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Copeland
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Plantation Island
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plantation Island
      • Plantation Island is located in Collier County
    • Chokoloskee
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Everglades City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ave Maria
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Miami-Dade County
    • Mart Law Seminole Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mart Law Seminole Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mart Law Seminole Village
      • Mart Law Seminole Village is located in Miami-Dade County
  • Monroe County
    • Trail City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Trail City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trail City
      • Trail City is located in Monroe County

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Wagon Wheel:

Cemeteries Near Wagon Wheel ...

We're sorry, but we don't know of any cemeteries in the area around Wagon Wheel.

This is a new section of our Gazetteer and we're still collecting data about cemeteries and their location. If you know of a cemetery that should be included, please let us know.

We are looking for information such as the name of the cemetery, its GPS location, whether the cemetery is still in use or if it is historic (ie- defunct, abandoned,  etc.). If it applies, we would also like to learn of any past or alternate names that the cemetery has been known by.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our collection of Genealogy Websites.

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Wagon Wheel. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Collier County: www.co.collier.fl.us/

The official website for State of Florida: www.myflorida.com/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.




 

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