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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Sycorax. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Sycorax to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sycorax, 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 Sycorax (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 Sycorax. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 Sycorax is historic, it would have been located within present day Oglethorpe 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 Oglethorpe County: Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Madison, Taliaferro & Wilkes.
Below are the counties that are near Sycorax. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sycorax:
- Oglethorpe County (The home county of Sycorax)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Palmetto
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Palmetto is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palmetto
- Veribest
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Veribest is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Veribest
- Estimated population in 2019: 124 people
- Lexington
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Crawford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Arnoldsville
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Stephens
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Cherokee Corner ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Cherokee Corner is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherokee Corner
- Maxeys
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Clarke County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Winterville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Cedar Shoals Estates
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Cedar Shoals Estates is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Shoals Estates
- Population from the 2010 Census: 74 people
- Lexington Heights
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Lexington Heights is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lexington Heights
- Estimated population in 2019: 228 people
- Chamberlin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Chamberlin is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlin
- Estimated population in 2019: 30,307 people
- Athens
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Riverside
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Riverside is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Estimated population in 2016: 35 people
- Jefferson Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Jefferson Valley is located in Clarke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Valley
- Estimated population in 2019: 939 people
- Elbert County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Elberton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Silk Mills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Silk Mills is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silk Mills
- Estimated population in 2019: 277 people
- Goss
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Goss is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goss
- Dewy Rose
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Harmony
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Harmony is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony
- Harper
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Harper is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harper
- Centerville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Centerville is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Bowman Ferry
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bowman Ferry is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowman Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 808 people
- Edinburg ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Edinburg is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edinburg
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,396 people
- Bowman
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Royston
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Franklin Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Canon
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Cromers
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cromers is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cromers
- Population from the 2010 Census: 639 people
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Daniel Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Daniel Springs is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daniel Springs
- Estimated population in 2019: 594 people
- Durham Town
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Durham Town is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durham Town
- Woodville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Woodville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 397 people
- Jacksonville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Jacksonville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
- Estimated population in 2019: 133 people
- Union Point
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Scull Shoals ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Scull Shoals is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scull Shoals
- Hart County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Hartwell
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Flat Shoals
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Flat Shoals is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Shoals
- Dooleys Ferry
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Dooleys Ferry is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dooleys Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 136 people
- Bowersville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Cooleys Ferry
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Cooleys Ferry is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooleys Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 529 people
- Maretts
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Maretts is located in Hart County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maretts
- Jackson County
- Nicholson
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Lincoln County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Lisbon ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Lisbon is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lisbon
- Hesters Ferry
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Hesters Ferry is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesters Ferry
- Estimated population in 2019: 911 people
- Midway
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Midway is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
- Goshen
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Goshen is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Lincolnton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Madison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Carlton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Comer
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Colbert
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Dalton
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Dalton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalton
- Estimated population in 2019: 33,665 people
- Patterson
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Patterson is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
- Estimated population in 2019: 755 people
- Danielsville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Harrison
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Harrison is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrison
- Estimated population in 2019: 442 people
- Madison Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- 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
- Hull
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Shiloh
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Shiloh is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
- Ila
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Planter
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Planter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Planter
- Oconee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Spartan Lane
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Spartan Lane is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spartan Lane
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,230 people
- Watkinsville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Marshall Estates
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Marshall Estates is located in Oconee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall Estates
- Estimated population in 2019: 1,227 people
- Taliaferro County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Carters Grove
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Carters Grove is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Grove
- Estimated population in 2019: 21,760 people
- Springfield
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Springfield is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Crawfordville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Raytown
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Raytown is located in Taliaferro County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raytown
- Sharon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Wilkes County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Centerville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Centerville is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Rayle
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- New Town
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- New Town is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town
- Tignall
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Washington
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Tyrone
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Tyrone is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyrone
- Lundberg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Lundberg is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundberg
- Estimated population in 2019: 831 people
- Abbeville County (SC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Calhoun Falls
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Latimer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Latimer is located in Abbeville County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimer
- Lowndesville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Monterey ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Monterey is located in Abbeville County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey
- Lake Secession
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Secession is located in Abbeville County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Secession
- Antreville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Antreville is located in Abbeville County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antreville
- Anderson County (SC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Iva
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Iva is located in Anderson County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iva
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iva <2>
- Holland Store
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Holland Store is located in Anderson County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holland Store
- Holland Store has also been known as:
- Hollands
- Starr
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- McCormick County (SC)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Mount Carmel
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Willington
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Willington is located in McCormick County (SC)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willington
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sycorax, see our County-by-County Page for Sycorax.
Cemeteries Near Sycorax ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sycorax.
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 Sycorax - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sycorax covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Earl Bolton Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Rocky Branch Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Springfield Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Hobbs Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Bridges Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Dove Creek Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Faust Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hill Family Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Hills Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Falling Creek Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Matthews Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- McCannon Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
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- St. Johns Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Mobley Hill Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Moore - Booth Family Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore - Booth Family Cemetery
- The Moore - Booth Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Jack Moore Family Cemetery
- Moore Family Cemetery
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 Sycorax in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sycorax.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sycorax, with the one closest to Sycorax listed first.
- Vesta
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Vesta is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vesta
- Point Peter
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Point Peter is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Peter
- Oglesby
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Oglesby is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oglesby
- Carlton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Anon ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Anon is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anon
- Elberton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Sandy Cross
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Sandy Cross is located in Oglethorpe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Cross
- Nickville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Nickville is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nickville
- Goss
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Goss is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goss
- Stansell ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Stansell is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stansell
- Middleton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Middleton is located in Elbert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
- Broad
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Broad is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broad
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- Dyson ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Dyson is located in Wilkes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyson
- Paoli
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Paoli is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paoli
- Comer
(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 Sycorax. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sycorax.
Newspapers Published in Sycorax ...
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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sycorax.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sycorax, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sycorax.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Sycorax:
- Websites specific to Georgia
- Pages specific to Oglethorpe County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Clarke County
- Elbert County
- Franklin County
- Greene County
- Hart County
- Jackson County
- Lincoln County
- Madison County
- Oconee County
- Taliaferro County
- Wilkes County
- Abbeville County
- Anderson County
- McCormick 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 Sycorax, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sycorax) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |