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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 Sutton (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 Sutton. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Sutton is located in Cook 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 Cook County: DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, Will, Lake (IN) & Berrien (MI).

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

  • Cook County     (The home county of Sutton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • South Barrington
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • South Barrington is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Barrington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,976 people
    • Barrington Hills
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Barrington Hills is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrington Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,152 people
    • Hoffman Estates
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Inverness
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Barrington
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Streamwood
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Plum Grove Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Plum Grove Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Grove Village
    • Hanover Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Schaumburg
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Capri Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Capri Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capri Village
    • Fairfax Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Fairfax Village is located in Cook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax Village
    • Palatine
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Rolling Meadows
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Boone County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Garden Prairie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Herbert
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Herbert is located in Boone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herbert
  • DeKalb County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • New Lebanon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • New Lebanon is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lebanon
    • Charter Grove
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Charter Grove is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charter Grove
    • Genoa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Sycamore
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Sycamore is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sycamore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,317 people
    • Cortland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Brush Point ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Brush Point is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brush Point
    • Coltonville ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Coltonville is located in DeKalb County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coltonville
    • Kingston
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • De Kalb
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • DuPage County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Bartlett
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Keeneyville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Keeneyville is located in DuPage County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeneyville
    • Roselle
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Wayne
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Medinah
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Cloverdale
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Cloverdale is located in DuPage County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
    • Bloomingdale
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Carol Stream
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Itasca
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Ingalton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Ingalton is located in DuPage County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalton
    • Addison
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Glendale Heights
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Wood Dale
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Kane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • East Dundee
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Carpentersville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Elgin
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sleepy Hollow
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • West Dundee
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Gilberts
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Coleman
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Coleman is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman
    • South Elgin
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • South Elgin is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Elgin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24,646 people
    • Freeman
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Freeman is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
    • Bowes Bend
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Bowes Bend is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowes Bend
    • Pingree Grove
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Plato Center
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Saint Charles
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Kendall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Montgomery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Boulder Hill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Boulder Hill is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Hill
    • Oswego
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Bristol
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Deer Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Lake Barrington
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Lake Barrington is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Barrington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,840 people
    • North Barrington
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • North Barrington is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Barrington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,938 people
    • Lake Zurich
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Tower Lakes
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Tower Lakes is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tower Lakes
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,219 people
    • Kildeer
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Fox River Valley Gardens
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Port Barrington
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Port Barrington is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Barrington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,481 people
      • Port Barrington has also been known as:
      • Port Barrington village
    • Forest Lake
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Forest Lake is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Lake
    • Wauconda
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Hawthorn Woods
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Long Grove
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Buffalo Grove
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • McHenry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Fox River Grove
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Algonquin
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Trout Valley
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Trout Valley is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trout Valley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 508 people
    • Cary
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Cary is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cary
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,929 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cary <1>
    • Lake-in-the-Hills
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Oakwood Hills
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Oakwood Hills is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,011 people
    • Crystal Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Barreville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Barreville is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barreville
    • Island Lake
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Island Lake is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,951 people
    • Prairie Grove
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Prairie Grove is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,920 people
    • Lakewood
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Huntley
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Holiday Hills
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Holiday Hills is located in McHenry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 574 people
  • Will County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Winston Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Winston Village is located in Will County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winston Village
    • Bloomfield Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Bloomfield Village is located in Will County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Village
    • Bolingbrook
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Colonial Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Colonial Village is located in Will County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village
    • Normantown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Normantown is located in Will County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Normantown
  • Kenosha County (WI)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sutton, with the one closest to Sutton listed first.
    • Benet Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Benet Lake is located in Kenosha County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benet Lake
    • Lake Shangrila
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Lake Shangrila is located in Kenosha County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Shangrila
    • Camp Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Camp Lake is located in Kenosha County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Lake
    • Twin Lakes
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Twin Lakes is located in Kenosha County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,234 people
    • Fossland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Fossland is located in Kenosha County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fossland
  • Walworth County (WI)
    • Genoa City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Genoa City is located in Walworth County (WI)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,981 people

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

Cemeteries Near Sutton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sutton.

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

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

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

  • Union Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Dundee Twp. Cemetery East
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Greve Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Dundee Twp. Cemetery West
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee Twp. Cemetery West
    • The Dundee Twp. Cemetery West has also been known as:
    • Dundee Twp. West Cemetery
  • River Valley Memorial Gardens
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Haeger Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Lake Street Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Circle of Life Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Cady Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (391 more) ...
    • Deer Grove Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • St. Paul Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bluff City Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff City Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bluff City Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Elgin.
      • The Bluff City Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Bluff City Boulevard Cemetery
      • Elgin City Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2163487 <2>

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 Sutton in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sutton.

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

  • Barrington
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Carpentersville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Elgin
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Spaulding
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Spaulding is located in Cook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spaulding
  • Almora
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Almora is located in Kane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almora
  • Clintonville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Clintonville is located in Kane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clintonville
  • Ontarioville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Ontarioville is located in DuPage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ontarioville
  • Schaumburg
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Algonquin
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Bartlett
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Palatine
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Lake Zurich
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Gilberts
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • South Elgin
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • South Elgin is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Elgin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24,646 people
    • Coleman
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Coleman is located in Kane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman

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

Newspapers Published in Sutton ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sutton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sutton, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sutton.

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 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 Sutton:

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 Sutton, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sutton) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.