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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 Monticello (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 Monticello. 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.

Monticello is located in Jasper 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 Jasper County: Butts, Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Newton & Putnam.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Monticello ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Monticello.

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

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

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

  • Monticello Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • South View Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Monticello Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Monticello Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • West View Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Hebron Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Talmadge Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Hopewell Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Williams Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Fellowship Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jordan Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Minter Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
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    • Williams Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Lane Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • New Hope Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Monticello had a population of 849 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Monticello had a population of 2,766 people.

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

  • Minneta
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Minneta is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minneta
  • Adgateville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Adgateville is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adgateville
    • Former name for Adgateville:
    • Adgateville
  • Maxwell
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Maxwell is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell
  • Hillsboro
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Machen
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Machen is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Machen
  • Shady Dale
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Smiths Mill ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Smiths Mill is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smiths Mill
  • Gladesville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Gladesville is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladesville
  • Aikenton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Aikenton is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aikenton
  • Mechanicsville ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Mechanicsville is located in Jasper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsville
  • Cork
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Cork is located in Butts County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cork
  • Stanfordville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Stanfordville is located in Putnam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanfordville
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Willard
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Willard is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
    • Farrar
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Farrar is located in Jasper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farrar
    • Flovilla
      (12 miles [19.3 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 Monticello. See our List of 1890's Communities around Monticello.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Monticello ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Monticello.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Monticello. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Monticello and those printed in the larger area surrounding Monticello.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> of Monticello.

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 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 Monticello:

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