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 Ravenswood (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 Ravenswood. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.
Ravenswood is located in Marion 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 Marion County : Boone , Hamilton , Hancock , Hendricks , Johnson , Morgan & Shelby .
Below are the counties that are near Ravenswood. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Ravenswood:
Marion County (The home county of Ravenswood)
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Williams Creek (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Williams Creek is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Creek Population from the 2020 Census: 429 people
Meridian Hills (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Meridian Hills is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 1,718 people
Crows Nest (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Crows Nest is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Nest Population from the 2020 Census: 75 people
North Crows Nest (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
North Crows Nest is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Crows Nest Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
Rocky Ripple (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Rocky Ripple is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ripple Population from the 2020 Census: 653 people
Castleton (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Spring Hill (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Spring Hill is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
Wynnedale (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Wynnedale is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wynnedale Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
Wolfington (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Wolfington is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolfington Lawrence (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Snacks (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Snacks is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snacks Indianapolis (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Eagle Village (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Eagle Village is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Village Zionsville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Whitestown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Gadsden (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Gadsden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gadsden Elizaville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Elizaville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizaville Lebanon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Northfield Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Northfield Village is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield Village Ulen (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Ulen is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulen Population from the 2020 Census: 127 people
Stringtown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Stringtown is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown Pike (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Pike is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pike Hazelrigg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Hazelrigg is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelrigg Advance (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Advance is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance Population from the 2020 Census: 514 people
Clinton County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Kirklin (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Scircleville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Scircleville is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scircleville Reagan (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Reagan is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reagan Boyleston (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Boyleston is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyleston Hamilton County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
North Ridge Village (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
North Ridge Village is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Ridge Village Carmel (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Newark Village (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Newark Village is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Village Bridgewater (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Bridgewater is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater Westfield (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Fishers (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Eagletown (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Eagletown is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagletown Monterey Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Monterey Village is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey Village Noblesville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Olio (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Olio is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olio Luxhaven (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Luxhaven is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxhaven Hortonville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Hortonville is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hortonville Hancock County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
McCordsville (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Woodbury (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Woodbury is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbury Gem (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Gem is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem Fortville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Mohawk (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Mohawk is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk Colonial Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Colonial Village is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village Denny Corner (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Denny Corner is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denny Corner Philadelphia (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Philadelphia is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philadelphia Spring Lake (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Spring Lake is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Lake Population from the 2020 Census: 231 people
New Palestine (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Eden (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Eden is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden Maxwell (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Maxwell is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell Hendricks County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Brownsburg (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Avon (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Avon is located in Hendricks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Population from the 2020 Census: 19,361 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Avon <1>
Pittsboro (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Plainfield (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Lizton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Cartersburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Danville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Clayton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Hadley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Hadley is located in Hendricks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hadley North Salem (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Hazelwood (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Hazelwood is located in Hendricks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelwood New Winchester (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
New Winchester is located in Hendricks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Winchester Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Greenwood (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Smith Valley (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Smith Valley is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Valley Rocklane (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Rocklane is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocklane Stones Crossing (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Stones Crossing is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stones Crossing New Whiteland (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
New Whiteland is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Whiteland Population from the 2020 Census: 6,350 people
Bluff Creek (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Bluff Creek is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Creek Whiteland (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Banta (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Banta is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banta Bargersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Needham (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Urmeyville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Urmeyville is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urmeyville Providence (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Providence is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence Kosciusko County
Warsaw (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Madison County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Ingalls (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Fishersburg (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Fishersburg is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishersburg Lapel (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Pendleton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Perkinsville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Edgewood Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Edgewood Village is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood Village Edgewood (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Edgewood is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood Population from the 2020 Census: 1,850 people
River Forest (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
River Forest is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Forest Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
Western Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Western Village is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Western Village Markleville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Woodlawn Heights (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Woodlawn Heights is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn Heights Population from the 2020 Census: 73 people
Anderson (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Morgan County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Mooresville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Young (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Young is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young Red House ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Red House is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House Waverly (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Waverly is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly Brookmoor (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Brookmoor is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookmoor Brooklyn (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Bethany (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Bethany is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
Lake Hart (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Lake Hart is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Hart Monrovia (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Putnam County
Barnard (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Barnard is located in Putnam County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard Shelby County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Brookfield (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Brookfield is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield London (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
London is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London Fountaintown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Fountaintown is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountaintown Clover Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Clover Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Village Boggstown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Fairland (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Morristown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Beech Brook (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Beech Brook is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Brook Candleglo Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Candleglo Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candleglo Village Hildebrand Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Hildebrand Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hildebrand Village Knighthood Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Knighthood Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knighthood Village Gwynneville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Gwynneville is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gwynneville Tipton County
The following are listed by their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
East Union (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
East Union is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Union Jericho ‑ Historic(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Jericho is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho Goldsmith (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Goldsmith is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsmith Tipton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Hobbs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Kempton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Kempton is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempton Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Ravenswood, see our County-by-County Page for Ravenswood .
Cemeteries Near Ravenswood ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ravenswood.
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 Ravenswood - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Ravenswood covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Union Chapel Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
DeFord Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Our Lady of Peace Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Pleasant Grove Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Sutherland Park Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Ebenezer Lutheran Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Fall Creek Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Stoop Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Negley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Farley Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Glen Haven Memorial Park (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Washington Park North Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (504 more) ...
Crown Hill National Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Episcopal Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Whitsell Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 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 Ravenswood in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Ravenswood.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Ravenswood, with the one closest to Ravenswood listed first.
Broad Ripple (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Broad Ripple is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broad Ripple Nora (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Nora is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nora Mapleton (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Mapleton is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton Castleton (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Brightwood ‑ Historic(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Brightwood is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brightwood Carmel (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
North Indianapolis (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
North Indianapolis is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Indianapolis Snacks (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Snacks is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snacks Flackville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Flackville is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flackville Lawrence (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Indianapolis (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Irvington ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Irvington is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvington Continue List (19 more) ...
Oaklandon (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
New Britton (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
New Britton is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Britton Zionsville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Ravenswood. See our List of 1890's Communities around Ravenswood .
Newspapers Published in Ravenswood ...
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 384 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ravenswood.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ravenswood, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Ravenswood.
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 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 Ravenswood:
Websites specific to Indiana Pages specific to Marion County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Clinton County Hamilton County Hancock County Hendricks County Johnson County Kosciusko County Madison County Morgan County Putnam County Shelby County Tipton County Cemetery Information and Directories for Indiana Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Ravenswood. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Indiana: https://www.in.gov
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Ravenswood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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- Ravenswood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.