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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 Vickers 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 Vickers 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 Vickers 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 Vickers Crossing: Vickers Xing.
  • While the name of this community is Vickers Crossing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Vickers Crossing may originally have been Vicker's Crossing.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Vickers Crossing might be written as Vicker 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 southeast 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 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.

Vickers Crossing is located in Clinch 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 Clinch County: Columbia (FL), Atkinson, Echols, Lanier & Ware.

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

  • Clinch County     (The home county of Vickers Crossing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vickers Crossing, with the one closest to Vickers Crossing listed first.
    • Fargo
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Ernest
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Ernest is located in Clinch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernest
    • Chauncey
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Chauncey is located in Clinch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chauncey
      • Estimated population in 2019: 326 people
    • Homerville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Argyle
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Du Pont
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Cogdell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Cogdell is located in Clinch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cogdell
  • Echols County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vickers Crossing, with the one closest to Vickers Crossing listed first.
    • Fruitland
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Fruitland is located in Echols County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitland
    • Potter
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Potter is located in Echols County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter
      • Estimated population in 2019: 870 people
    • Statenville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Howell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Howell is located in Echols County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
  • Lanier County
  • Ware County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vickers Crossing, with the one closest to Vickers Crossing listed first.
    • Manor
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Ruskin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Ruskin is located in Ware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruskin
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 1,203 people
  • Baker County (FL)
    • Taylor
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Taylor is located in Baker County (FL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
  • Hamilton County (FL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vickers Crossing, with the one closest to Vickers Crossing listed first.
    • Bakers Mill
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Bakers Mill is located in Hamilton County (FL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakers Mill
    • Jasper
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jasper is located in Hamilton County (FL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,163 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jasper <2>
    • White Springs
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Marion
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Marion is located in Hamilton County (FL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion

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

Cemeteries Near Vickers Crossing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vickers 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 Vickers Crossing - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ramah Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Chauncey Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Hilliard Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Hard Scramble Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Griffis Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Lee Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Eason Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Dame Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Poole Pond Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Suwannee Chapel Church of God of Prophecy Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Barton Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Spring Branch Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (28 more) ...
    • Pine Forest Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Carter Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • White Chimney Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)

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.<5>

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

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

  • Benton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Benton is located in Columbia County (FL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton
  • Tarver
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Tarver is located in Echols County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarver
  • Withers
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Withers is located in Clinch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withers
  • Homerville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Bakers Mill
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Bakers Mill is located in Hamilton County (FL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakers Mill
  • Du Pont
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Jasper
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jasper is located in Hamilton County (FL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jasper
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,163 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jasper <2>
  • Manor
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Statenville
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Avoca
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Avoca is located in Hamilton County (FL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avoca
  • Genoa
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Genoa is located in Hamilton County (FL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
  • Glenmore
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Glenmore is located in Ware County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenmore
  • Marion
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Marion is located in Hamilton County (FL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
  • White Springs
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Vickers 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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Vickers Crossing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Vickers Crossing, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Vickers Crossing.

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 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 Vickers Crossing:

Footnotes ...

<1>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).
<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- Vickers Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.
<5>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 Vickers Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.