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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 Ohoopee (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 Ohoopee. 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 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.

Ohoopee is located in Toombs 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 Toombs County: Appling, Candler, Emanuel, Jeff Davis, Montgomery, Tattnall & Treutlen.

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

  • Toombs County     (The home county of Ohoopee)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ohoopee, with the one closest to Ohoopee listed first.
    • Lyons
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Santa Claus
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Santa Claus is located in Toombs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Claus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 160 people
    • Toombs Central
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Toombs Central is located in Toombs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toombs Central
      • Estimated population in 2019: 486 people
    • Vidalia
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Charles
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Charles is located in Toombs County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charles
    • Rock Springs
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Cedar Crossing
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Appling County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ohoopee, with the one closest to Ohoopee listed first.
    • Baxley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Graham
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Graham is located in Appling County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
  • Bulloch County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ohoopee, with the one closest to Ohoopee listed first.
    • New Hope
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Register
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Statesborough
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Statesborough is located in Bulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Statesborough
      • Estimated population in 2019: 32,954 people
    • Aaron
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Kites Spur ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Kites Spur is located in Bulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kites Spur
      • Estimated population in 2019: 227 people
    • Portal
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Eagle Court
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Eagle Court is located in Bulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Court
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 164 people
  • Candler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ohoopee, with the one closest to Ohoopee listed first.
    • Canoe
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Canoe is located in Candler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoe
      • Estimated population in 2019: 785 people
    • Metter
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Pulaski
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Emanuel County
  • Evans County
  • Jeff Davis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ohoopee, with the one closest to Ohoopee listed first.
    • Tallahassee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Tallahassee is located in Jeff Davis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tallahassee
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,185 people
    • Hazlehurst
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Montgomery County
  • Tattnall County
  • Treutlen County
  • Wheeler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ohoopee, with the one closest to Ohoopee listed first.
    • Ochwalkee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Ochwalkee is located in Wheeler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ochwalkee
      • Estimated population in 2019: 3,732 people
    • Glenwood
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Ohoopee ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ohoopee.

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

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

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

While we didn't find Ohoopee in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ohoopee.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Ohoopee ...

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 Ohoopee.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ohoopee, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ohoopee.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Ohoopee:

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 '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- Ohoopee) 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 Ohoopee, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.