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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 Gordon (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 Gordon. 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.

Gordon is located in Wilkinson 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 Wilkinson County: Baldwin, Bleckley, Johnson, Jones, Laurens, Twiggs & Washington.

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

  • Wilkinson County     (The home county of Gordon)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon listed first.
    • Ivey
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Ivey is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivey
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 899 people
    • Brooks
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Dedrich
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Dedrich is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dedrich
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,146 people
    • McIntyre
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Irwinton
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Toomsboro
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Beech Hill
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Beech Hill is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Hill
  • Baldwin County
  • Bibb County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon listed first.
    • East Macon
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Mogul
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Mogul is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mogul
      • Estimated population in 2019: 400 people
    • Wheeler Heights
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Cross Keys
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Macon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Payne
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Rutland
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Rutland is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutland
      • Estimated population in 2019: 842 people
    • Walden
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Walden is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walden
      • Estimated population in 2019: 964 people
    • Bloomfield Park
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Bloomfield Park is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Park
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,686 people
    • Brookhaven
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Brookhaven is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookhaven
      • Estimated population in 2019: 55,554 people
    • Vinson Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Vinson Village is located in Bibb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinson Village
    • Lizella
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Bleckley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon listed first.
    • Allentown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Royal
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Royal is located in Bleckley County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,571 people
  • Hancock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon listed first.
    • Buckhead ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Buckhead is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead
      • Estimated population in 2019: 183 people
    • Zebulon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Houston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon listed first.
    • Elberta
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Elberta is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elberta
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,329 people
    • Warner Robins
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Stathams Landing
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Stathams Landing is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stathams Landing
      • Estimated population in 2019: 2,839 people
    • Centerville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Bonaire
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodard Estates
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Woodard Estates is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodard Estates
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,352 people
  • Jasper County
  • Jones County
  • Laurens County
  • Monroe County
  • Peach County
  • Putnam County
  • Twiggs County
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon listed first.
    • Gardner
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Gardner is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardner
      • Estimated population in 2019: 201 people
    • Oconee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Goat Town
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Goat Town is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goat Town
    • Deepstep
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Tennille
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Gordon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gordon.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gordon, with the one closest to Gordon 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Gordon had a population of 443 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Gordon had a population of 1,819 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Gordon ...

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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gordon.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gordon, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gordon.

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 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 Gordon:

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 Gordon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Gordon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.