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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 State Line (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 State Line. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

State Line is located in Hampden County.

To see how the shape of Massachusetts' counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hampden County: Hartford (CT), Litchfield (CT), Tolland (CT), Berkshire, Hampshire & Worcester.

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

  • Hampden County     (The home county of State Line)
    • The following are listed by their distance from State Line, with the one closest to State Line listed first.
    • South Factory Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Monson
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Wales
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hampden
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Hampden is located in Hampden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,154 people
    • Baptist Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Baptist Village is located in Hampden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baptist Village
    • Holland
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Palmer
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Tenneyville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Brimfield
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Brimfield is located in Hampden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,679 people
    • Wilbraham
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • North Wilbraham
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Thorndike
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Thorndike is located in Hampden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorndike
    • East Longmeadow
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • East Longmeadow is located in Hampden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Longmeadow
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,093 people
  • Franklin County
  • Hampshire County
    • The following are listed by their distance from State Line, with the one closest to State Line listed first.
    • Bondsville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Bondsville is located in Hampshire County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bondsville
    • Ware
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Belchertown
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Granby
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Granby is located in Hampshire County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granby
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,262 people
    • Enfield ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • South Hadley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Mount Tom
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • South Amherst
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • South Amherst is located in Hampshire County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Amherst
    • Easthampton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Southampton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Southampton is located in Hampshire County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southampton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,162 people
    • East Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • East Village is located in Hampshire County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Village
    • Amherst Center
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Amherst Center is located in Hampshire County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amherst Center
    • Amherst
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Worcester County
    • The following are listed by their distance from State Line, with the one closest to State Line listed first.
    • Fiskdale
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Old Sturbridge Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • West Warren
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Sturbridge
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Sturbridge is located in Worcester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sturbridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,561 people
    • Globe Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Globe Village is located in Worcester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe Village
    • Warren
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Warren is located in Worcester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,203 people
    • Southbridge
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Brookfield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Brookfield is located in Worcester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,439 people
    • West Brookfield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Charlton City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Charlton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Charlton is located in Worcester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,698 people
    • Tufts Village ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Tufts Village is located in Worcester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tufts Village
    • East Brookfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Hartford County (CT)
  • Litchfield County (CT)
    • Hampsted
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Hampsted is located in Litchfield County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampsted
  • New London County (CT)
  • Tolland County (CT)
  • Windham County (CT)
  • Providence County (RI)

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

Cemeteries Near State Line ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of State Line.

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 State Line - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from State Line, with the one closest to State Line 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.<4>

While we didn't find State Line in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of State Line.

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

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

Newspapers Published in State Line ...

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 168 newspapers that have been published in the area around State Line.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of State Line, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for State Line.

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 State Line:

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 Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) has created and maintains a database of historic properties that is called MACRIS (for the Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System). More information about the MHC and MACRIS can be found on their website: mhc-macris.net.

When visiting the MACRIS website, you might encounter their page requiring the 'Acceptance of Terms'. With your acceptance, you'll be transfered to the desired page.

<3>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.
<4>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 State Line, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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 from Point A (ie- State Line) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.