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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 Treaty (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 Treaty. 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 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.

Treaty is located in Wabash 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 Wabash County: Fulton, Grant, Huntington, Kosciusko, Miami & Whitley.

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

  • Wabash County     (The home county of Treaty)
  • Allen County
  • Blackford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • Renner ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hartford City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Mollie ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Montpelier
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Shamrock Lakes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Shamrock Lakes is located in Blackford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shamrock Lakes
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
  • Cass County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • New Waverly
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • New Waverly is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Waverly
    • Onward
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Hoover
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Galveston
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Walton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Twelve Mile
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Twelve Mile is located in Cass County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twelve Mile
    • Deacon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Logansport
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Delaware County
    • Janney
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Janney is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janney
  • Fulton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • Disko
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Disko is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Disko
    • Akron
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Athens
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Athens is located in Fulton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Athens
    • Fulton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Grant County
  • Howard County
  • Huntington County
  • Kosciusko County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • Silver Lake
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Sidney
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Sidney is located in Kosciusko County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Beaver Dam
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Claypool
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Sevastopol
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • Leisure
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Summitville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Summitville is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summitville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
    • West Elwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • West Elwood is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Elwood
  • Miami County
  • Tipton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • Nevada
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Windfall City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Windfall City is located in Tipton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windfall City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 793 people
    • Windfall
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Sharpsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Wells County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty listed first.
    • Liberty Center
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Keystone
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Greenville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Greenville is located in Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville
    • Poneto
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Poneto is located in Wells County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poneto
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 191 people
    • Uniondale
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Zanesville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Travisville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Whitley County

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

Cemeteries Near Treaty ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Treaty.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Treaty, with the one closest to Treaty 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Treaty had a population of 147 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Treaty ...

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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Treaty.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Treaty, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Treaty.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Treaty:

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 Treaty, 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- Treaty) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.