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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 Lumpkin (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 Lumpkin. 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.

Name Variations for Lumpkin ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

In past government published Postal Guides, Lumpkin was referred to as Lumpkin Courthouse.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Lumpkin. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lumpkin.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

For more information about how community names might have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.

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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Lumpkin is located in Stewart County and is the County Seat.

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 Stewart County: Barbour (AL), Russell (AL), Chattahoochee, Quitman, Randolph & Webster.

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

  • Stewart County     (The home county of Lumpkin)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lumpkin, with the one closest to Lumpkin listed first.
    • Mount Zion ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Richland
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Louvale
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Sanford
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Sanford is located in Stewart County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sanford
      • Estimated population in 2019: 159 people
    • Omaha
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Florence
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Chattahoochee County
  • Marion County
  • Muscogee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lumpkin, with the one closest to Lumpkin listed first.
    • Baker Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Baker Village is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker Village
    • Cusseta Heights
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Cusseta Heights is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cusseta Heights
      • Estimated population in 2018: 10,684 people
    • Saint Marys Hills
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Saint Marys Hills is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Marys Hills
      • Estimated population in 2019: 18,567 people
    • Sunset Terrace
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Sunset Terrace is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Terrace
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 846 people
    • Branton Woods
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Branton Woods is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branton Woods
      • Estimated population in 2019: 12,961 people
    • East Edgewood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • East Edgewood is located in Muscogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Edgewood
      • Estimated population in 2019: 569 people
    • Wynnton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Quitman County
  • Randolph County
  • Sumter County
  • Terrell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lumpkin, with the one closest to Lumpkin listed first.
    • Parrott
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Yeomans
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Yeomans is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeomans
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 507 people
    • Dawson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bronwood
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Olivers Mill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Olivers Mill is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olivers Mill
      • Estimated population in 2019: 230 people
  • Webster County
  • Barbour County (AL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lumpkin, with the one closest to Lumpkin listed first.
    • Big Eddy ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Big Eddy is located in Barbour County (AL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Eddy
    • Eufaula
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Hawkinsville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Russell County (AL)

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

Cemeteries Near Lumpkin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lumpkin.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lumpkin, with the one closest to Lumpkin 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Lumpkin had a population of 1,100 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Lumpkin had a population of 1,280 people.

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

  • Randall
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Randall is located in Stewart County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randall
  • Richland
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Louvale
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Kimbrough
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Kimbrough is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimbrough
  • Brooklyn
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Brooklyn is located in Stewart County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn
  • Union
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Union is located in Stewart County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
  • Weston
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Benevolence
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Benevolence is located in Randolph County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benevolence
  • Green Hill ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Green Hill is located in Stewart County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hill
  • Orletta ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Orletta is located in Stewart County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orletta
  • Renfroe
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Renfroe is located in Chattahoochee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Renfroe
  • Omaha
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Lumpkin ...

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 55 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lumpkin.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lumpkin, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lumpkin.

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 Lumpkin:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Lumpkin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Lumpkin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.