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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Smalls Crossing. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Smalls Crossing to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Smalls Crossing, please Contact Us.
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 Smalls Crossing (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 Smalls Crossing. 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 Smalls Crossing ...
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.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Smalls Crossing: Smalls Xing.
- While the name of this community is Smalls Crossing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Smalls Crossing may originally have been Small's Crossing.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Smalls Crossing might be written as Small Crossing.
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.
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 northeast 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 north.
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 north 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Smalls Crossing is historic, it would have been located within present day Jones 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 Jones County: Baldwin, Bibb, Jasper, Monroe, Putnam, Twiggs & Wilkinson.
Below are the counties that are near Smalls Crossing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Smalls Crossing:
- Jones County (The home county of Smalls Crossing)
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Wayside
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Wayside is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Bradley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Bradley is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
- Round Oak
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Round Oak is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Oak
- Clinton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Clinton is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Former name for Clinton:
- Albany
- Gray
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Morton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Morton is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
- Estimated population in 2019: 549 people
- Fortville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Fortville is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortville
- Ethridge
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ethridge is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ethridge
- James
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- James is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
- Pitts
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pitts is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pitts
- Estimated population in 2019: 293 people
- Haddock
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Belvedere Manor
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Belvedere Manor is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvedere Manor
- Population from the 2010 Census: 15,152 people
- Baldwin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Brown's Crossing
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Brown's Crossing is located in Baldwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown's Crossing
- Coopers
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Coopers is located in Baldwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopers
- Meriwether
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Hardwick
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Milledgeville
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Mount Pleasant
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Mount Pleasant is located in Baldwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
- The Colony
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- The Colony is located in Baldwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Colony
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,834 people
- Oconee Old Town ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Oconee Old Town is located in Baldwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconee Old Town
- Black Spring
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Black Spring is located in Baldwin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Spring
- Bibb County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Cross Keys
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Cross Keys is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Keys
- Payne
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Payne is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Payne
- Macon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Mogul
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Mogul is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mogul
- Estimated population in 2019: 400 people
- East Macon
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- East Macon is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Macon
- Brookhaven
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Brookhaven is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookhaven
- Estimated population in 2019: 55,554 people
- Wheeler Heights
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Wheeler Heights is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler Heights
- Bloomfield Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Bloomfield Park is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Park
- Estimated population in 2019: 2,686 people
- Vinson Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Vinson Village is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinson Village
- Lizella
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- West Point
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- West Point is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Point
- Rutland
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Rutland is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutland
- Estimated population in 2019: 842 people
- Butts County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Flovilla
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jackson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jenkinsburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Fincherville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Fincherville is located in Butts County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fincherville
- Crawford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Musella
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Knoxville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Hancock County
- Buckhead ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Buckhead is located in Hancock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead
- Estimated population in 2019: 183 people
- Houston County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Elberta
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Elberta is located in Houston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elberta
- Estimated population in 2019: 4,329 people
- Centerville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Warner Robins
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Jasper County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Hillsboro
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Monticello
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Calvin
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Calvin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvin
- Estimated population in 2019: 126 people
- Shady Dale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Lamar County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Goggins
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Goggins is located in Lamar County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goggins
- Goggins has also been known as:
- Goggans Station
- Goggans
- Goggansville
- Goggins Station
- Gogginsville
- Liberty Hill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Liberty Hill is located in Lamar County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hill
- Barnesville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Monroe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Juliette
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Bolingbroke
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Smarr
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Forsyth
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Box Ankle
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Box Ankle is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Ankle
- Russellville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Russellville is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russellville
- Culloden
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Peach County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Echeconnee
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Echeconnee is located in Peach County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echeconnee
- Byron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Putnam County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Resseaus Crossroads
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Resseaus Crossroads is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Resseaus Crossroads
- Estimated population in 2019: 63 people
- Dennis
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Dennis is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis
- Hallwood
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hallwood is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hallwood
- Eatonton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Oconee Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Oconee Springs is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconee Springs
- Estimated population in 2019: 243 people
- Twiggs County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Dry Branch
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Huber
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Huber is located in Twiggs County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huber
- Marion
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Marion is located in Twiggs County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
- Jeffersonville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Upson County
- Yatesville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Wilkinson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Brooks
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Brooks is located in Wilkinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooks
- Gordon
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Ivey
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ivey is located in Wilkinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivey
- Population from the 2020 Census: 899 people
- Dedrich
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dedrich is located in Wilkinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dedrich
- Population from the 2010 Census: 2,146 people
- McIntyre
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Smalls Crossing, see our County-by-County Page for Smalls Crossing.
Cemeteries Near Smalls Crossing ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Smalls Crossing.
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 Smalls Crossing - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Smalls Crossing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Wayside Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- St. Paul AME Church Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Carson Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Risby Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Big O Ranch Redding Family Estate Grounds
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Ammons Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammons Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ammons Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<4> to the northwest of Gray.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2496463 <5>
- Gordon Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Gordon Family Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- New Hope Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lewis Loyd Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Edwards Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Bradley Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Continue List (372 more) ...
- Crutchfield Family Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crutchfield Family Cemetery
- The Crutchfield Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Crutchfield Cemetery
- Hunt Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Round Oak Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
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.
While we didn't find Smalls Crossing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Smalls Crossing.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Smalls Crossing, with the one closest to Smalls Crossing listed first.
- Wayside
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Wayside is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
- Bradley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Bradley is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
- Round Oak
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Round Oak is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Oak
- Dames Ferry
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Dames Ferry is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dames Ferry
- Plentitude ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Plentitude is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plentitude
- Clinton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Clinton is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
- Former name for Clinton:
- Albany
- Gray
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Morton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Morton is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morton
- Estimated population in 2019: 549 people
- Blountsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Blountsville is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blountsville
- Hillsboro
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Juliette
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Bolingbroke
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- James
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- James is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for James
- Lorane
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lorane is located in Bibb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorane
- Gladesville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Gladesville is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladesville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Smalls Crossing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Smalls Crossing.
Newspapers Published in Smalls Crossing ...
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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Smalls Crossing.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Smalls Crossing, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Smalls Crossing.
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 Smalls Crossing:
- Websites specific to Georgia
- Pages specific to Jones County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Baldwin County
- Bibb County
- Butts County
- Crawford County
- Hancock County
- Houston County
- Jasper County
- Lamar County
- Monroe County
- Peach County
- Putnam County
- Twiggs County
- Upson County
- Wilkinson County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Georgia
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Smalls Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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- Smalls Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <5> | 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. |