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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 West Palm Beach Farms (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 West Palm Beach Farms. 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 West Palm Beach Farms ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for West Palm Beach Farms: W. Palm Bch. Farms

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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

West Palm Beach Farms 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 West Palm Beach Farms. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to West Palm Beach Farms:

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of West Palm Beach Farms)
    • The following are listed by their distance from West Palm Beach Farms, with the one closest to West Palm Beach Farms listed first.
    • Lake Belvedere Estates
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Royal Palm Estates
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Royal Palm Estates is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal Palm Estates
    • Gun Club Estates
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Gun Club Estates is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gun Club Estates
    • Plantation Mobile Home Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Stacey Street
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Stacey Street is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacey Street
    • Golfview
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Golfview is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golfview
    • Haverhill
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Century Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Century Village is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Century Village
    • Schall Circle
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Schall Circle is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schall Circle
    • Golden Lakes
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Golden Lakes is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Lakes
    • Cloud Lake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Cloud Lake is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloud Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 147 people
    • Glen Ridge
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Glen Ridge is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Ridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 246 people
    • Cypress Lakes
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Cypress Lakes is located in Palm Beach County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Lakes
  • Broward County
    • The following are listed by their distance from West Palm Beach Farms, with the one closest to West Palm Beach Farms listed first.
    • Deerfield Beach
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Hillsboro Pines
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro Pines is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Pines
    • Hillsboro Ranches
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Hillsboro Ranches is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Ranches
    • The Cove
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • The Cove is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Cove
    • Hillsboro Beach
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Parkland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Bonnie Lock - Woodsetter North
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Crystal Lake
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Crystal Lake is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lake
    • Godfrey Road
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Godfrey Road is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Godfrey Road
    • Lighthouse Point
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Pompano Beach Highlands
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Pompano Estates
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Pompano Estates is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pompano Estates
    • Tedder
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Tedder is located in Broward County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tedder
  • Martin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from West Palm Beach Farms, with the one closest to West Palm Beach Farms listed first.
    • Jupiter Island
      (25 miles [40.2 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
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near West Palm Beach Farms ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of West Palm Beach Farms.

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 West Palm Beach Farms - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from West Palm Beach Farms, with the one closest to West Palm Beach Farms 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 West Palm Beach Farms in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of West Palm Beach Farms.

These communities are listed based on their distance from West Palm Beach Farms, with the one closest to West Palm Beach Farms listed first.

  • Palm Beach
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Jupiter
    (17 miles [27.4 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 West Palm Beach Farms. See our List of 1890's Communities around West Palm Beach Farms.

Newspapers Published in West Palm Beach Farms ...

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 West Palm Beach Farms.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of West Palm Beach Farms, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for West Palm Beach Farms.

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 West Palm Beach Farms:

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 West Palm Beach Farms, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- West Palm Beach Farms) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.