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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Le Roy. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Le Roy to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Le Roy, 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 Le Roy (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 Le Roy. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Le Roy is historic, it would have been located within present day Burke 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 Burke County: Emanuel, Jefferson, Jenkins, Richmond, Screven, Aiken (SC), Allendale (SC) & Barnwell (SC).
Below are the counties that are near Le Roy. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Le Roy:
- Burke County (The home county of Le Roy)
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Saint Clair
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Saint Clair is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
- Torbit Station ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Torbit Station is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torbit Station
- Torbit Station has also been known as:
- Torbit
- Brushy Creek ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Brushy Creek is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushy Creek
- Drone
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Drone is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drone
- Population from the 2010 Census: 14,568 people
- Gough
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Waynesboro
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Keysville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Vidette
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Vidette is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vidette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 105 people
- Rosier
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Rosier is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosier
- Thomas Station
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Thomas Station is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas Station
- Estimated population in 2019: 8,752 people
- Magruder
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Magruder is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magruder
- Munnerlyn
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Munnerlyn is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munnerlyn
- Number Ten ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Number Ten is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Number Ten
- Estimated population in 2019: 145 people
- Columbia County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Fort Gordon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Forrest ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Forrest is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forrest
- Harlem
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Grovetown
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Sawdust
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Sawdust is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawdust
- Arrow Head
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Arrow Head is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrow Head
- Lamkin
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Lamkin is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamkin
- Lulaville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Lulaville is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lulaville
- Estimated population in 2019: 2,961 people
- Martinez
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Evans
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Memory Park
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Memory Park is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memory Park
- Population from the 2010 Census: 122 people
- Maddox
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Maddox is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maddox
- Snead
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Snead is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snead
- Estimated population in 2019: 20,077 people
- Emanuel County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Colemans Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Colemans Lake is located in Emanuel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colemans Lake
- Summertown
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Blundale
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Blundale is located in Emanuel County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blundale
- Glascock County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Gibson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Edge Hill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Edge Hill is located in Glascock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edge Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
- Jefferson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Noah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Noah is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noah
- Noah has also been known as:
- Noah Station
- Matthews
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Zebina
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Zebina is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zebina
- Wrens Station
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Wrens Station is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wrens Station
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,939 people
- Wrens
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Louisville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Old Town
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Old Town is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
- Stapleton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Moxley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Moxley is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moxley
- Stapletons Crossroads
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Stapletons Crossroads is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stapletons Crossroads
- Estimated population in 2019: 393 people
- Avera
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Omaha Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Omaha Springs is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omaha Springs
- Wadley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Jenkins County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Perkins
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Millen
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Emmalane
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Emmalane is located in Jenkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmalane
- Thrift
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Thrift is located in Jenkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thrift
- Estimated population in 2019: 2,623 people
- McDuffie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Megahee
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Megahee is located in McDuffie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Megahee
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,031 people
- Dearing
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Boneville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Thomson
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Richmond County
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Blythe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Hephzibah
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- De Bruce
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- De Bruce is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Bruce
- Estimated population in 2019: 25,696 people
- Gracewood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Pepperidge
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Pepperidge is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pepperidge
- Nixon ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Nixon is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nixon
- Richmond Hills
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Richmond Hills is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond Hills
- Estimated population in 2019: 13,839 people
- Fairvale
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Fairvale is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairvale
- Population from the 2010 Census: 6,769 people
- Barton Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Barton Village is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barton Village
- Fleming Heights
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Fleming Heights is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleming Heights
- Estimated population in 2019: 717 people
- Belair
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Belair is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belair
- Southgate Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Southgate Village is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southgate Village
- Augusta
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Washington County
- Davisboro
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Aiken County (SC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Kathwood
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Kathwood is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kathwood
- Browns Hill ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Browns Hill is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Hill
- Bush ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Bush is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush
- Cowden
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Cowden is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowden
- Savanna Town ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Savanna Town is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savanna Town
- Beech Island
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jackson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- North Augusta
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Belvedere
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Belvedere is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvedere
- Clearwater
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hawthorne ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hawthorne is located in Aiken County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawthorne
- Bath
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Le Roy, see our County-by-County Page for Le Roy.
Cemeteries Near Le Roy ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Le Roy.
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 Le Roy - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Le Roy covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Taylor Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Abrams - Drayton Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Gresham Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Smith Family Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Quinnie Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bines Slave Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Gough Family Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Joan Society Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Gresham Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Brushy Creek Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Sheppard Place Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Casevill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Continue List (372 more) ...
- Caseville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Applewhite Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Hopeful Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
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.
While we didn't find Le Roy in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Le Roy.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Le Roy, with the one closest to Le Roy listed first.
- Saint Clair
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Saint Clair is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
- Gough
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Drone
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Drone is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drone
- Population from the 2010 Census: 14,568 people
- Waynesboro
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Keysville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Noah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Noah is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noah
- Noah has also been known as:
- Noah Station
- Matthews
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Stellaville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Stellaville is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stellaville
- Blythe
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Rosier
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Rosier is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosier
- Hephzibah
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- McBean
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- McBean is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McBean
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Shell Bluff
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Shell Bluff is located in Burke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shell Bluff
- Bath
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Bath is located in Richmond County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath
- Wrens
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Le Roy. See our List of 1890's Communities around Le Roy.
Newspapers Published in Le Roy ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Le Roy.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Le Roy, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Le Roy.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Le Roy:
- Websites specific to Georgia
- Pages specific to Burke County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Columbia County
- Emanuel County
- Glascock County
- Jefferson County
- Jenkins County
- McDuffie County
- Richmond County
- Washington County
- Aiken 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 Le Roy, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Le Roy) 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. |