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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 Cotton (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 Cotton. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Cotton is located in Mitchell 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 Mitchell County: Baker, Colquitt, Decatur, Dougherty, Grady, Thomas & Worth.

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

  • Mitchell County     (The home county of Cotton)
  • Baker County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cotton, with the one closest to Cotton listed first.
    • Newton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Hawkinstown
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Hawkinstown is located in Baker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkinstown
      • Estimated population in 2019: 5,270 people
    • Lamar ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Mimsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Anna
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Brooks County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cotton, with the one closest to Cotton listed first.
    • Barwick
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Tallokas ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Tallokas is located in Brooks County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tallokas
      • Estimated population in 2019: 171 people
  • Colquitt County
  • Decatur County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cotton, with the one closest to Cotton listed first.
    • Vada
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Climax
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Dougherty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cotton, with the one closest to Cotton listed first.
    • Putney
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Pecan City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Pecan City is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan City
    • Colonial Place
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Colonial Place is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Place
    • Eleanor Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Eleanor Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eleanor Village
    • Tompkins Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Tompkins Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins Village
    • West Town
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • West Town is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Town
    • Albany
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Colonial Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Colonial Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • East Towne
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • East Towne is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Towne
    • Elon Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Elon Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elon Village
    • Hinds
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Hinds is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinds
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,273 people
    • Eugemar
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Eugemar is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugemar
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,367 people
  • Grady County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cotton, with the one closest to Cotton listed first.
    • Spence
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodland
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Cairo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Midway
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Whigham
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Good Hope ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Good Hope is located in Grady County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope
      • Estimated population in 2019: 300 people
    • Reno
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Reno is located in Grady County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reno
      • Estimated population in 2019: 285 people
  • Thomas County
  • Tift County
  • Worth County

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

Cemeteries Near Cotton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cotton.

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

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

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

  • Zion Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Mt. Eble Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Liberty Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Pinecrest Memory Gardens
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Akridge Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Pelham Memorial Garden
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Sunset Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Pilcher Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Providence Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Midway Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Bridge Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Sale City Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (239 more) ...
    • Shady Grove Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Macedonia Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • St. James Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)

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>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Cotton ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cotton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cotton, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cotton.

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 Cotton:

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 Cotton, 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- Cotton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.