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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 Eagle Lake (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 Eagle Lake. 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.

Name Variations for Eagle Lake ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Eagle Lake: Eagle Lk.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Eagle Lake. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Eagle Lake.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Eagle Lake 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 Eagle Lake. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Eagle Lake:

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Eagle Lake)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eagle Lake, with the one closest to Eagle Lake listed first.
    • Winterville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Winterville is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterville
    • New Canada
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • New Canada is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Canada
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
    • Quimby
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Quimby is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quimby
    • Winterville Plantation
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Winterville Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterville Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 205 people
    • Wallagrass
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
    • Soldier Pond
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Saint John Plantation
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Saint John Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 248 people
    • Fort Kent Mills
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Fort Kent Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Fort Kent Village is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kent Village
    • Fort Kent
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Saint Francis
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Saint Francis is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
    • Portage Lake
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Portage Lake is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage Lake
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 370 people

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

Cemeteries Near Eagle Lake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eagle Lake.

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 Eagle Lake - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Eagle Lake, with the one closest to Eagle Lake listed first.

  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Longfellow Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • St. Josephs the Helper Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Holy Family Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Congregational Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Fort Kent.
    • The St. Louis Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Old St. Louis Cemetery
    • St. Louis Cemetery Old
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2393985 <2>
  • St. Etropus Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • St. John Catholic Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Louis Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (57 more) ...

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 in 1895, Eagle Lake had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Eagle Lake had a population of 796 people.

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

  • Wallagrass
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
  • Fort Kent
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Saint Francis
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint Francis is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
  • Upper Frenchville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
  • Portage
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Frenchville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Jemtland
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Jemtland is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jemtland
  • Perham
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • New Sweden
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Washburn
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Acadia
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Acadia is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
  • Saint David
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • North Lyndon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
    • Castle Hill
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Castle Hill is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Hill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
    • Ashland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Eagle Lake ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eagle Lake.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Eagle Lake, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Eagle Lake.

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 Eagle Lake:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

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