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 Sun River Terrace (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 Sun River Terrace. 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 Sun River Terrace ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Sun River Terrace: Sun Riv. Ter. (or less commonly used: Sun Riv. Terr.)
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.
Sun River Terrace is located in Kankakee County.
To see how the shape of Illinois' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kankakee County: Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Livingston, Will, Lake (IN) & Newton (IN).
Below are the counties that are near Sun River Terrace. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sun River Terrace:
- Kankakee County (The home county of Sun River Terrace)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Momence
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Aroma Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Saint George
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Saint George is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint George
- Bradley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Kankakee
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Saint Anne
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hopkins Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hopkins Park is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopkins Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 608 people
- Hopkins Park has also been known as:
- Hopkins Park village
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hopkins Park <1>
- Litchfield
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Litchfield is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Litchfield
- Bourbonnais
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Grant Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Grant Park is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,231 people
- Otto
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Otto is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otto
- Sammons Point
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Sammons Point is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sammons Point
- Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
- Sammons Point has also been known as:
- Sammons Point village
- Cook County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Richton Park
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Park Forest
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- South Chicago Heights
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- South Chicago Heights is located in Cook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Chicago Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,957 people
- Chicago Heights
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Matteson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Sauk Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Ford Heights
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Olympia Fields
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Flossmoor
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Glenwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Lynwood
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Country Club Hills
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Ford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Cabery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Kempton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grundy County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Clarke City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Clarke City is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarke City
- East Brooklyn
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- East Brooklyn is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Brooklyn
- Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
- Braceville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- South Wilmington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- South Wilmington is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Wilmington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 637 people
- Central City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Central City is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central City
- Diamond
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Centerville ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Centerville is located in Grundy County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Coal City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Gardner
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Iroquois County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Papineau
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Beaverville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Chebanse
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Martinton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- L'Erable
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- L'Erable is located in Iroquois County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for L'Erable
- Clifton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Donovan
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Ashkum
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Iroquois
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Watseka
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Danforth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Crescent City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Livingston County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Cardiff
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Cardiff is located in Livingston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
- Campus
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Will County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Peotone
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Beecher
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Goodenow
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Goodenow is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodenow
- Wilton Center
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Monee
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Wallingford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Wallingford is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallingford
- Symerton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Symerton is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Symerton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
- Crete
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- University Park
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Custer Park
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Custer Park is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer Park
- Lakewood Shores
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Lakewood Shores is located in Will County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakewood Shores
- Manhattan
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Benton County (IN)
- Raub
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Raub is located in Benton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raub
- Jasper County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Forest City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Forest City is located in Jasper County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest City
- Fair Oaks
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- DeMotte
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- DeMotte is located in Jasper County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeMotte
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,172 people
- DeMotte has also been known as:
- De Motte
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for DeMotte <1>
- Virgie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Virgie is located in Jasper County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgie
- Lake County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Illinoi
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Illinoi is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illinoi
- Schneider
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Schneider is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schneider
- Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
- Shelby
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Shelby is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelby
- Lowell
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Cedar Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Dalecarlia
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Dalecarlia is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Dalecarlia
- Dinwiddie
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Dinwiddie is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dinwiddie
- Saint John
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Dyer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Dyer is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer
- Population from the 2020 Census: 15,955 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dyer <1>
- Crown Point
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hartsdale
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hartsdale is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsdale
- Leroy
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Leroy is located in Lake County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leroy
- Newton County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Lake Village
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Lake Village is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Village
- Sumava Resorts
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Morocco
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Roselawn
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Roselawn is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roselawn
- Thayer
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Thayer is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thayer
- Beaver City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Beaver City is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver City
- Mount Ayr
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Ayr is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Ayr
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Brook
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Kentland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Foresman
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Foresman is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foresman
- Newton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Newton is located in Newton County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
- Porter County (IN)
- Hebron
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sun River Terrace, see our County-by-County Page for Sun River Terrace.
Cemeteries Near Sun River Terrace ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sun River Terrace.
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 Sun River Terrace - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sun River Terrace covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Rice - Bebe Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice - Bebe Cemetery
- The Rice - Bebe Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rice - Day Family Cemetery
- Beebe Family Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe Family Cemetery
- The Beebe Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bebe Family Cemetery
- Beebe Cemetery
- Beebee Cemetery
- Beebetown Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #104680 <2>
- Leggtown Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Mt. Airy Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Kankakee Memorial Gardens
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- B'nai Israel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Aroma Park Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Oakwood Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- St. George Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Momence Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- State Hospital Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Continue List (220 more) ...
- Old Baptist Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Concordia Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Shrontz Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Sun River Terrace in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sun River Terrace.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sun River Terrace, with the one closest to Sun River Terrace listed first.
- Exline
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Exline is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Exline
- Koster
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Koster is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koster
- Momence
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Saint George
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Saint George is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint George
- Kankakee
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Saint Anne
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hopkins Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hopkins Park is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopkins Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 608 people
- Hopkins Park has also been known as:
- Hopkins Park village
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hopkins Park <1>
- Otto
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Otto is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otto
- Grant Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Grant Park is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,231 people
- Greenwich
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Greenwich is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwich
- Papineau
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Chebanse
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Beaverville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Sherburnville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sherburnville is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherburnville
- Sollitt
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sollitt is located in Kankakee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sollitt
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sun River Terrace. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sun River Terrace.
Newspapers Published in Sun River Terrace ...
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 Sun River Terrace.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sun River Terrace, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sun River Terrace.
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 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 Sun River Terrace:
- Websites specific to Illinois
- Pages specific to Kankakee County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cook County
- Ford County
- Grundy County
- Iroquois County
- Livingston County
- Will County
- Benton County
- Jasper County
- Lake County
- Newton County
- Porter County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Illinois
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> | 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 Sun River Terrace, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sun River Terrace) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |