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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 Camilla (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 Camilla. 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.

Camilla is located in Mitchell County and is the County Seat.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Mitchell County: Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Thomas & Worth.

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

  • Mitchell County     (The home county of Camilla)
  • Baker County
  • Calhoun County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Camilla, with the one closest to Camilla listed first.
    • Holt
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Leary
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Williamsburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Colquitt County
  • Decatur County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Camilla, with the one closest to Camilla listed first.
    • Vada
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Climax
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Dougherty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Camilla, with the one closest to Camilla listed first.
    • Putney
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Colonial Place
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Colonial Place is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Place
    • Pecan City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Pecan City is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan City
    • Eleanor Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Eleanor Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eleanor Village
    • Tompkins Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Tompkins Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins Village
    • West Town
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • West Town is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Town
    • Albany
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Colonial Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Colonial Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • Elon Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Elon Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elon Village
    • Eugemar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Eugemar is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugemar
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,367 people
    • Hinds
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Hinds is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinds
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,273 people
    • Relswood Terrace
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Relswood Terrace is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Relswood Terrace
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,079 people
    • Dawson Heights
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Dawson Heights is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dawson Heights
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,246 people
  • Early County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Camilla, with the one closest to Camilla listed first.
    • Douglass Crossroads
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Douglass Crossroads is located in Early County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglass Crossroads
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,992 people
    • Douglasville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Damascus
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Grady County
  • Lee County
  • Miller County
  • Thomas County
  • Worth County

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

Cemeteries Near Camilla ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Camilla.

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

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

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

  • Oakview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Pinecrest Memory Gardens
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pelham Memorial Garden
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Mt. Eble Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Akridge Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • China Grove Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Turkey Pen Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Godwin Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Zion Hill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Shady Grove Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Hard Up Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (208 more) ...
    • Sale City Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Union Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Mizpah Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Camilla had a population of 866 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Camilla had a population of 4,941 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Camilla ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Camilla.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Camilla. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Camilla and those printed in the larger area surrounding Camilla.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3> of Camilla.

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 helpful 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 Camilla:

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>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 Camilla, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Camilla) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.