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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Dowdy. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Dowdy to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dowdy, please Contact Us.
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 Dowdy (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 Dowdy. 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 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 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Dowdy is historic, it would have been located within present day Madison 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 Madison County: Banks, Clarke, Elbert, Franklin, Hart, Jackson & Oglethorpe.
Below are the counties that are near Dowdy. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dowdy:
- Madison County (The home county of Dowdy)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Hull
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Patterson
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Patterson is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Estimated population in 2019: 755 people
- Colbert
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Planter
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Planter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planter
- Danielsville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Comer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Ila
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Dalton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dalton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalton
- Estimated population in 2019: 33,665 people
- Shiloh
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Shiloh is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
- Madison Springs
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Madison Springs is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madison Springs
- Estimated population in 2019: 4,210 people
- Former name for Madison Springs:
- Alexanderville
- Carlton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Harrison
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Harrison is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Estimated population in 2019: 442 people
- Banks County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Maysville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Homer
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Barrow County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Statham
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Russell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Russell is located in Barrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
- Bethlehem
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Winder
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Carl
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Carl is located in Barrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carl
- Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
- Clarke County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Winterville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Athens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lexington Heights
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lexington Heights is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington Heights
- Estimated population in 2019: 228 people
- Cedar Shoals Estates
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Cedar Shoals Estates is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Shoals Estates
- Population from the 2010 Census: 74 people
- Jefferson Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jefferson Valley is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Valley
- Estimated population in 2019: 939 people
- Chamberlin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Chamberlin is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlin
- Estimated population in 2019: 30,307 people
- Riverside
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Estimated population in 2016: 35 people
- Pine Lake
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Pine Lake is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Lake
- Estimated population in 2019: 754 people
- Cleveland Station
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cleveland Station is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland Station
- Estimated population in 2019: 4,165 people
- Elbert County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Bowman
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Harper
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Harper is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Dewy Rose
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Goss
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Goss is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goss
- Elberton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Silk Mills
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Silk Mills is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silk Mills
- Estimated population in 2019: 277 people
- Centerville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Centerville is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Harmony
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Harmony is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Cromers
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Cromers is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromers
- Population from the 2010 Census: 639 people
- Franklin Springs
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Royston
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Aquilla ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Aquilla is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aquilla
- Carnesville
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Plainview
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Plainview is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
- Canon
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Parhams
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Parhams is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parhams
- Lavonia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Scull Shoals ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Scull Shoals is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scull Shoals
- Woodville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Woodville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 397 people
- Durham Town
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Durham Town is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham Town
- Hall County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Gillsville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jarrett
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jarrett is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett
- Sugar Hill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sugar Hill is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Hill
- Klondike
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Klondike is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
- Hart County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Bowersville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Flat Shoals
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Flat Shoals is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Shoals
- Hartwell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jackson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Nicholson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Attica
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Attica is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Attica
- Talasee ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Talasee is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talasee
- Estimated population in 2019: 848 people
- Commerce
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Arcade
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Arcade is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcade
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,040 people
- Jefferson
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Dry Pond
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Dry Pond is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Pond
- Estimated population in 2019: 15,881 people
- Holly Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Holly Springs is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Springs
- Pendergrass
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Hoschton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Talmo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Braselton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Morgan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Bostwick
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Braswell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Braswell is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braswell
- Estimated population in 2019: 383 people
- Smyrna
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Smyrna is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
- Oconee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Spartan Lane
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Spartan Lane is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spartan Lane
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,230 people
- Overlook Village
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Overlook Village is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overlook Village
- Watkinsville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Marshall Estates
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Marshall Estates is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall Estates
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,227 people
- Osceola Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Osceola Village is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola Village
- Bogart
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Cumberland
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cumberland is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
- Estimated population in 2019: 6,547 people
- Eastville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Eastville is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastville
- Bishop
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Farmington
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- High Shoals
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- North High Shoals
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- North High Shoals is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North High Shoals
- Population from the 2020 Census: 736 people
- Oglethorpe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Cherokee Corner ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Cherokee Corner is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Corner
- Arnoldsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Crawford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lexington
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Veribest
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Veribest is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veribest
- Estimated population in 2019: 124 people
- Stephens
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Maxeys
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Palmetto
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Palmetto is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto
- Taliaferro County
- Carters Grove
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Carters Grove is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Grove
- Estimated population in 2019: 21,760 people
- Walton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Mount Vernon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Vernon is located in Walton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon
- Good Hope
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Campton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Campton is located in Walton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campton
- Monroe
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Nicholasville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Nicholasville is located in Walton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicholasville
- Estimated population in 2019: 3,333 people
- Wilkes County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Centerville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Centerville is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Rayle
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- New Town
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- New Town is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dowdy, see our County-by-County Page for Dowdy.
Cemeteries Near Dowdy ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dowdy.
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 Dowdy - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dowdy covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Thompson Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Matthews Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Coile Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Kincaid Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Murry Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murry Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Murry Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the west of Colbert.
- The Murry Cemetery has also been known as:
- Murray Cemetery
- Sorrow - Mann Cemetery
- Sorrow - Murry Cemetery
- Sorrow - Patteron Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2325581 <4>
- Whitworth Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bradley Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Martin Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Beaverdam Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mathews Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Kidd Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Continue List (511 more) ...
- Kidd Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Meadow Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Williams Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
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.
Dowdy itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dowdy, with the one closest to Dowdy listed first.
- Winterville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Dunlap
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Dunlap is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
- Planter
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Planter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planter
- Athens
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Danielsville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Center is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
- Comer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Ila
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Hix
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Hix is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hix
- Nicholson
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Paoli
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Paoli is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paoli
- Crawford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Clarksboro
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Clarksboro is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksboro
- Watkinsville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sandy Cross
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Sandy Cross is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Cross
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dowdy. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dowdy.
Newspapers Published in Dowdy ...
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 83 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dowdy.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dowdy, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dowdy.
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 Dowdy:
- Websites specific to Georgia
- Pages specific to Madison County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Banks County
- Barrow County
- Clarke County
- Elbert County
- Franklin County
- Greene County
- Hall County
- Hart County
- Jackson County
- Morgan County
- Oconee County
- Oglethorpe County
- Taliaferro County
- Walton County
- Wilkes County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Georgia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Dowdy, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dowdy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |