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 Bugbee (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 Bugbee. 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 and doctors 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.
Bugbee is located in Aroostook County.
To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Aroostook County: Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset & Washington.
Below are the counties that are near Bugbee. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bugbee:
- Aroostook County (The home county of Bugbee)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bugbee, with the one closest to Bugbee listed first.
- Washburn
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Adaline
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Adaline is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adaline
- Crouseville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Crouseville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouseville
- Perham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wade
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Wade is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wade
- Population from the 2020 Census: 261 people
- Castle Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Castle Hill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
- Mapleton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- McGraw
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- McGraw is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGraw
- McGraw has also been known as:
- McGraw Siding
- Chapman
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Chapman is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman
- Population from the 2020 Census: 450 people
- Caribou
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Presque Isle
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Barretts
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Barretts is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bugbee, see our County-by-County Page for Bugbee.
Cemeteries Near Bugbee ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bugbee.
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 Bugbee - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bugbee covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bugbee, with the one closest to Bugbee listed first.
- Riverside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Riverside Extension Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Randell Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Holmes Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Castle Hill Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Munson Christy Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hillside Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Crouseville Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Old Mill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Fairview Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hoffeses Family Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Braley Family Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Continue List (115 more) ...
- Lyndon Center Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Woodland Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
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 Bugbee in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bugbee.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bugbee, with the one closest to Bugbee listed first.
- Washburn
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Perham
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Castle Hill
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Castle Hill is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
- Mapleton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Presque Isle
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Parkhurst
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Parkhurst is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkhurst
- Roberts
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Roberts is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
- Caribou
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- East Lyndon
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
- Hurd
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Hurd is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
- New Sweden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- North Lyndon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Maple Grove
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Maple Grove is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Ashland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Easton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Easton is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,177 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bugbee. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bugbee.
Newspapers Published in Bugbee ...
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 26 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bugbee.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bugbee, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bugbee.
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 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 Bugbee:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Aroostook County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
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 Bugbee, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Bugbee) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |