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 Old Town (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 Old Town. 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 doctors and 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.
Old Town is located in Warren County.
To see how the shape of Indiana's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Warren County: Vermilion (IL), Benton, Fountain, Tippecanoe & Vermillion.
Below are the counties that are near Old Town. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Old Town:
- Warren County (The home county of Old Town)
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- West Lebanon
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- West Lebanon is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lebanon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 686 people
- Williamsport
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sloan ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Sloan is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sloan
- Hedrick
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hedrick is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedrick
- Baltimore ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Baltimore is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baltimore
- Foster
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Foster is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
- State Line City
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- State Line City is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 137 people
- State Line
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- State Line is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line
- Pence
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Pence is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pence
- Brisco ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Brisco is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brisco
- Chatterton ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Chatterton is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatterton
- Independence
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Independence is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Independence
- Benton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Talbot
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Ambia
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Ambia is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ambia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
- Boswell
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Oxford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Templeton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Templeton is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Templeton
- Dunn ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Dunn is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunn
- Atkinson
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Atkinson is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atkinson
- Otterbein
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Fowler
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Freeland Park
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Freeland Park is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeland Park
- Gravel Hill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Gravel Hill is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravel Hill
- Earl Park
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Earl Park is located in Benton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earl Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 342 people
- Fountain County
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Attica
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Covington
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Layton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Layton is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layton
- Stone Bluff
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Stone Bluff is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Bluff
- Veedersburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Newtown
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Newtown is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newtown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
- Mellott
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mellott is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mellott
- Population from the 2020 Census: 194 people
- Roberts
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Roberts is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
- Hillsboro
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Harveysburg
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Harveysburg is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harveysburg
- Kingman
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Wallace
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Wallace is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
- Population from the 2020 Census: 83 people
- Montgomery County
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Wingate
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Waynetown
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- New Richmond
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Wesley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Wesley is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wesley
- Linden
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Alamo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Alamo is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
- Cherry Grove
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Cherry Grove is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Grove
- Yountsville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Yountsville is located in Montgomery County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yountsville
- Crawfordsville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Parke County
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Grange Corner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Grange Corner is located in Parke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grange Corner
- Annapolis
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Annapolis is located in Parke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annapolis
- West Union
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- West Union is located in Parke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Union
- Byron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Byron is located in Parke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byron
- Bloomingdale
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Marshall
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Marshall is located in Parke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall
- Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
- Tippecanoe County
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Odell
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Odell is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odell
- Glenhall
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Glenhall is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenhall
- Westpoint
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Shadeland
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Shadeland is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadeland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,922 people
- Corwin ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Corwin is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corwin
- Corwin has also been known as:
- Corwin Station
- Montmorenci
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Montmorenci is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montmorenci
- Romney
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Elston
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Elston is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elston
- West Lafayette
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Concord
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Concord is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord
- Gladens Corner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Gladens Corner is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladens Corner
- Indian Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Indian Village is located in Tippecanoe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
- Vermillion County
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Tree Spring
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Tree Spring is located in Vermillion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tree Spring
- Rileysburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Rileysburg is located in Vermillion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rileysburg
- Gessie
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Gessie is located in Vermillion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gessie
- Perrysville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Eugene
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Eugene is located in Vermillion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eugene
- Cayuga
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Newport
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Champaign County (IL)
- Penfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Iroquois County (IL)
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Wellington
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Stockland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Goodwine
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Milford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Vermilion County (IL)
- The following are listed by their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- Illiana
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Illiana is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illiana
- Newell
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Newell is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newell
- Alvin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Alvin is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alvin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 246 people
- Alvin has also been known as:
- Alvan Village
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alvin <1>
- Bismarck
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Danville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Denmark ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Denmark is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denmark
- Coalton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Coalton is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalton
- Henning
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Rossville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Tilton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Tilton is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,655 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tilton <1>
- Belgium
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Belgium is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belgium
- Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
- Hillery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Hillery is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillery
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Old Town, see our County-by-County Page for Old Town.
Cemeteries Near Old Town ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Old Town.
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 Old Town - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Old Town covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- West Lebanon Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lebanon Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the West Lebanon Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of West Lebanon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #87342 <2>
- Shankland Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Redwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lyons Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Woods Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Robb Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Owens Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Goodwine Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Bend Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Brown Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Highland Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- McCabe Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (313 more) ...
- Sand Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- St. Francis of Xavier Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hillside Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
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 Old Town in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Old Town.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Old Town, with the one closest to Old Town listed first.
- West Lebanon
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- West Lebanon is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lebanon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 686 people
- Fountain
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Fountain is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountain
- Marshfield
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Marshfield is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshfield
- Johnsonville
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Johnsonville is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsonville
- Williamsport
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Hedrick
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hedrick is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedrick
- Rob Roy
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Rob Roy is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rob Roy
- Attica
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Carbondale
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Carbondale is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbondale
- State Line
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- State Line is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line
- Foster
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Foster is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
- Covington
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Aylesworth
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Aylesworth is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aylesworth
- Thomas
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Thomas is located in Vermilion County (IL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
- Layton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Layton is located in Fountain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layton
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Old Town. See our List of 1890's Communities around Old Town.
Newspapers Published in Old Town ...
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 144 newspapers that have been published in the area around Old Town.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Old Town, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Old Town.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Old Town:
- Websites specific to Indiana
- Pages specific to Warren County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Benton County
- Fountain County
- Montgomery County
- Parke County
- Tippecanoe County
- Vermillion County
- Champaign County
- Iroquois County
- Vermilion County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Indiana
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 Old Town, 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' (or 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- Old Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |