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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 Chattoogaville (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 Chattoogaville. 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.

Chattoogaville is located in Chattooga County.

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 Chattooga County: Cherokee (AL), DeKalb (AL), Floyd & Walker.

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

  • Chattooga County     (The home county of Chattoogaville)
  • Bartow County
  • Dade County
  • Floyd County
  • Gordon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chattoogaville, with the one closest to Chattoogaville listed first.
    • Plainville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Sugar Valley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Calhoun
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Calhoun Ferry
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Calhoun Ferry is located in Gordon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calhoun Ferry
      • Estimated population in 2019: 17,271 people
    • Hill City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Hill City is located in Gordon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill City
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chattoogaville, with the one closest to Chattoogaville listed first.
    • Etna
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Cedartown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Seney
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Seney is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seney
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,412 people
    • Esom Hill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Greenway ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Greenway is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenway
    • Grady ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Grady is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grady
      • Estimated population in 2019: 290 people
    • Aragon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Walker County
  • Calhoun County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chattoogaville, with the one closest to Chattoogaville listed first.
    • Goshen ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Goshen is located in Calhoun County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
    • Dailey
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Piedmont
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Collins ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Collins is located in Calhoun County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
  • Cherokee County (AL)
  • Cleburne County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chattoogaville, with the one closest to Chattoogaville listed first.
    • Palestine
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Borden Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Borden Springs is located in Cleburne County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borden Springs
  • DeKalb County (AL)
  • Etowah County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chattoogaville, with the one closest to Chattoogaville listed first.
    • Hale ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Hale is located in Etowah County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale
    • Ballplay
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Banner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Banner is located in Etowah County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
    • Coato Bend ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Coato Bend is located in Etowah County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coato Bend
  • Jackson County (AL)

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

Cemeteries Near Chattoogaville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chattoogaville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chattoogaville, with the one closest to Chattoogaville 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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Chattoogaville had a population of 36 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Cedar Springs ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Cedar Springs is located in Cherokee County (AL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Springs
  • Taliaferro ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Taliaferro is located in Chattooga County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taliaferro
    • Estimated population in 2019: 71 people
  • Starkville ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Starkville is located in Cherokee County (AL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Starkville
  • Fullerton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Fullerton is located in Cherokee County (AL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fullerton
  • Holland
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Holland is located in Chattooga County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland
  • Lyerly
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Broomtown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Grover
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • New Moon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Ringgold
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Early ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Early is located in Floyd County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Early
  • Sterling ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Sterling is located in Cherokee County (AL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterling
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Farill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Farill is located in Cherokee County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farill
    • Mount Hope ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Mount Hope is located in Floyd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hope
    • Lavender
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Lavender is located in Floyd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavender

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

Newspapers Published in Chattoogaville ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chattoogaville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chattoogaville, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chattoogaville.

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 Chattoogaville:

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 Chattoogaville, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Chattoogaville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.