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 Neese (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 Neese. 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 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.
Neese is located in 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 Neese. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Neese:
- Madison County (The home county of Neese)
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Planter
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Planter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planter
- Hull
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Patterson
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Patterson is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Estimated population in 2019: 755 people
- Ila
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Danielsville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Colbert
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Comer
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Dalton
(10 miles [16.1 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
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Shiloh is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
- Madison Springs
(12 miles [19.3 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
- Harrison
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Harrison is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Estimated population in 2019: 442 people
- Carlton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Banks County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Maysville
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Homer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Barrow County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Statham
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Russell
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Russell is located in Barrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russell
- Winder
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Bethlehem
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Carl
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Carl is located in Barrow County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carl
- Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
- Auburn
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Clarke County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Winterville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jefferson Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jefferson Valley is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Valley
- Estimated population in 2019: 939 people
- Lexington Heights
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Lexington Heights is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington Heights
- Estimated population in 2019: 228 people
- Athens
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cedar Shoals Estates
(11 miles [17.7 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
- Riverside
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Estimated population in 2016: 35 people
- Chamberlin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Chamberlin is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlin
- Estimated population in 2019: 30,307 people
- Pine Lake
(13 miles [20.9 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 Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Bowman
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Harper
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Harper is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Dewy Rose
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Goss
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Goss is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goss
- Centerville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Centerville is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Elberton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Silk Mills
(26 miles [41.8 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
- Harmony
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Harmony is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Cromers
(13 miles [20.9 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
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Royston
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Carnesville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Plainview
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Plainview is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
- Aquilla ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Aquilla is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aquilla
- Canon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Parhams
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Parhams is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parhams
- Lavonia
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Scull Shoals ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Scull Shoals is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scull Shoals
- Woodville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Woodville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 397 people
- Habersham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Alto
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Raoul
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Raoul is located in Habersham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raoul
- Hall County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Gillsville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Jarrett
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jarrett is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jarrett
- Sugar Hill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Sugar Hill is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Hill
- Klondike
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Klondike is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondike
- Candler
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Candler is located in Hall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candler
- Lula
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- White Sulphur Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Chestnut Mountain
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Hart County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Bowersville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Flat Shoals
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Flat Shoals is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Shoals
- Hartwell
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Maretts
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Maretts is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maretts
- Jackson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Nicholson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Attica
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Attica is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Attica
- Talasee ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Talasee is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talasee
- Estimated population in 2019: 848 people
- Commerce
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Arcade
(12 miles [19.3 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
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Dry Pond
(16 miles [25.7 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
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Holly Springs is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holly Springs
- Pendergrass
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Talmo
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Braselton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Hoschton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Morgan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Braswell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Braswell is located in Morgan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braswell
- Estimated population in 2019: 383 people
- Bostwick
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Oconee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Spartan Lane
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- 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
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Bogart
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- 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
- Marshall Estates
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Marshall Estates is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall Estates
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,227 people
- Cumberland
(17 miles [27.4 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
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Eastville is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastville
- Bishop
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- High Shoals
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- North High Shoals
(20 miles [32.2 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
- Farmington
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Oglethorpe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Cherokee Corner ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Cherokee Corner is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Corner
- Arnoldsville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Crawford
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lexington
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Veribest
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Veribest is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veribest
- Estimated population in 2019: 124 people
- Stephens
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Maxeys
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Palmetto
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Palmetto is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto
- Stephens County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Martin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Avalon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Avalon is located in Stephens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avalon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 226 people
- Eastanollee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Walton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Mount Vernon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Vernon is located in Walton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon
- Good Hope
(26 miles [41.8 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
- 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
- Monroe
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Wilkes County
- The following are listed by their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Centerville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Centerville is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Rayle
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Neese, see our County-by-County Page for Neese.
Cemeteries Near Neese ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Neese.
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 Neese - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Neese covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Williams Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Bradley Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Crawford Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Chandler #5 Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Moons Grove Baptist Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bradley Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Porterfield Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Pittman Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Bethaven Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Whitworth Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Chandler Cemetery #3
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (532 more) ...
- Buena Vista Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Matthews Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Murry Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- 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 <2>
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>
While we didn't find Neese in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Neese.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Neese, with the one closest to Neese listed first.
- Dowdy ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Dowdy is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowdy
- Planter
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Planter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planter
- Center
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Center is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center
- Danielsville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ila
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Hix
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Hix is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hix
- Winterville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Nicholson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Athens
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Dunlap
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dunlap is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunlap
- Clarksboro
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Clarksboro is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksboro
- Comer
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Talasee ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Talasee is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talasee
- Estimated population in 2019: 848 people
- Fort Lamar
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Fort Lamar is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lamar
- Paoli
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Paoli is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paoli
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Neese. See our List of 1890's Communities around Neese.
Newspapers Published in Neese ...
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 82 newspapers that have been published in the area around Neese.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Neese, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Neese.
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 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 Neese:
- 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
- Habersham County
- Hall County
- Hart County
- Jackson County
- Morgan County
- Oconee County
- Oglethorpe County
- Stephens County
- Walton County
- Wilkes County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Georgia
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Neese) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Neese, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |