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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 Putney (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 Putney. 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 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.

Putney is located in Dougherty 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 Dougherty County: Baker, Calhoun, Lee, Mitchell, Terrell & Worth.

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

  • Dougherty County     (The home county of Putney)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
    • Pecan City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Pecan City is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan City
    • Eleanor Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Eleanor Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eleanor Village
    • Colonial Place
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Colonial Place is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Place
    • Tompkins Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Tompkins Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins Village
    • Colonial Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Colonial Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • Elon Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Elon Village is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elon Village
    • East Towne
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • East Towne is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Towne
    • Hinds
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Hinds is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinds
      • Estimated population in 2019: 33,273 people
    • Turner City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Turner City is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner City
    • Albany
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Eugemar
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Eugemar is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugemar
      • Estimated population in 2019: 4,367 people
    • West Town
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • West Town is located in Dougherty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Town
  • Baker County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
    • Newton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Hawkinstown
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Hawkinstown is located in Baker County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkinstown
      • Estimated population in 2019: 5,270 people
    • Milford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Anna
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Mimsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Calhoun County
  • Colquitt County
  • Grady County
  • Lee County
  • Mitchell County
  • Randolph County
  • Terrell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
    • Sasser
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Clarks Mill
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Clarks Mill is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks Mill
      • Estimated population in 2019: 12,637 people
    • Herod
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Herod is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herod
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 3,384 people
    • Bronwood
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Dawson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Olivers Mill
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Olivers Mill is located in Terrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olivers Mill
      • Estimated population in 2019: 230 people
  • Thomas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Putney, with the one closest to Putney listed first.
    • Meigs
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Hansell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Hansell is located in Thomas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansell
      • Estimated population in 2019: 6,534 people
  • Tift County
  • Turner County
    • Hobby
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hobby is located in Turner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobby
      • Estimated population in 2019: 536 people
  • Worth County

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

Cemeteries Near Putney ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Putney.

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

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

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

  • Blue Springs Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Davis Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. Bethel Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Antioch Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Hard Up Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Oakview Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Carver Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Floral Memory Gardens
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Rocky Mount Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Clifton Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (170 more) ...
    • Hill Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Parkerville Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Crown Hill Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)

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>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Putney ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Putney.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Putney, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Putney.

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 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 Putney:

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 Putney, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Putney) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.