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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 Warthen (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 Warthen. 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.

Warthen is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Baldwin, Glascock, Hancock, Jefferson, Johnson, Warren & Wilkinson.

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

  • Washington County     (The home county of Warthen)
  • Baldwin County
  • Glascock County
  • Greene County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warthen, with the one closest to Warthen listed first.
    • Comfort ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Comfort is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comfort
      • Estimated population in 2019: 7,085 people
    • Swaggy Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Swaggy Valley is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swaggy Valley
      • Estimated population in 2019: 7,542 people
    • White Plains
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Hancock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warthen, with the one closest to Warthen listed first.
    • Zebulon
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Sparta
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Springfield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Buckhead ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Buckhead is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckhead
      • Estimated population in 2019: 183 people
    • Gum Hill
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Gum Hill is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Hill
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,146 people
  • Jefferson County
  • Johnson County
  • Laurens County
    • Tuckers Crossroad
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Tuckers Crossroad is located in Laurens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckers Crossroad
  • McDuffie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warthen, with the one closest to Warthen listed first.
    • Megahee
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Megahee is located in McDuffie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Megahee
      • Estimated population in 2019: 1,031 people
    • Thomson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Putnam County
    • Oconee Springs
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Oconee Springs is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oconee Springs
      • Estimated population in 2019: 243 people
  • Warren County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warthen, with the one closest to Warthen listed first.
    • Jewell
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Warrenton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Camak
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Norwood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Barnett
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Mesena
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Cadley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Cadley is located in Warren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadley
      • Estimated population in 2019: 540 people
  • Wilkinson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warthen, with the one closest to Warthen listed first.
    • Beech Hill
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Beech Hill is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Hill
    • Toomsboro
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • McIntyre
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Irwinton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Dedrich
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Dedrich is located in Wilkinson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dedrich
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2,146 people

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

Cemeteries Near Warthen ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Warthen.

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

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

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

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Warthen had a population of 150 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2019, Warthen had a population of 386 people.

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

  • Lindsey ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Lindsey is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsey
  • Chalker ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Chalker is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalker
  • Downs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Downs is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downs
  • Sandersville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Agricola
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Agricola is located in Glascock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agricola
  • Mitchell
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Linton
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Linton is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linton
  • Deepstep
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Tennille
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Sun Hill
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sun Hill is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Hill
  • Hebron
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Hebron is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hebron
  • Culverton
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Culverton is located in Hancock County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Culverton
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Warthen ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Warthen.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Warthen, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Warthen.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Warthen:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Warthen) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Warthen, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.