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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 Hammond (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 Hammond. 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 and doctors 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.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Hammond)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • Littleton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Littleton is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
    • Monticello
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Ludlow
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Ludlow is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 366 people
    • Smyrna
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • New Limerick
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Houlton
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Smyrna Mills
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Hodgdon
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Hodgdon is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodgdon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,267 people
    • Linneus
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Linneus is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linneus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 907 people
    • Oakfield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Bridgewater
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Merrill
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Merrill is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
    • Dyer Brook
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Dyer Brook is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer Brook
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
  • Penobscot County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • Patten
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Mount Chase
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Mount Chase is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Chase
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Shin Pond
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Shin Pond is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shin Pond

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

Cemeteries Near Hammond ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hammond.

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

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

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

  • Weed Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Ludlow Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Littleton Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Yerxa Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Henderson Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Foster Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Village Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Amish Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Evergreen Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Houlton.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #796559 <2>
  • New St. Marys Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Mary of the Visitation RC Church Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Mary of the Visitation RC Church Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mary of the Visitation RC Church Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Houlton.
    • The St. Mary of the Visitation RC Church Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Mary of the Visitation Cemetery
    • St. Marys Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400716 <2>
  • Continue List   (107 more) ...
    • Watson Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Perry Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Timoney Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)

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 Hammond in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hammond.

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

  • Littleton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Littleton is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
  • Monticello
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Smyrna
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
  • New Limerick
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Houlton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Smyrna Mills
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Oakfield
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Linneus
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Linneus is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linneus
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 907 people
  • Hodgdon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Hodgdon is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodgdon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,267 people
  • Bridgewater
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Dyer Brook
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Dyer Brook is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer Brook
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
  • Blaine
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Mars Hill
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Moro
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Moro is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro
    • Island Falls
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Hammond ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hammond.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hammond, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hammond.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Hammond:

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