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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 Hawkins (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 Hawkins. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Hawkins)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hawkins, with the one closest to Hawkins listed first.
    • Masardis
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Masardis is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masardis
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
    • Oxbow
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Oxbow Plantation
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Oxbow Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxbow Plantation
      • Estimated population in 2018: 61 people
    • Merrill
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Merrill is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
    • Walker
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Walker is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
    • Moro Plantation
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Moro Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
    • Smyrna
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Ashland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Smyrna Mills
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Hammond
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Hammond is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Chapman
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Chapman is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 450 people
    • Garfield Plantation
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Garfield Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 74 people
    • Dyer Brook
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • 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 Hawkins, with the one closest to Hawkins listed first.
    • Shin Pond
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Shin Pond is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shin Pond
    • Mount Chase
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Mount Chase is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Chase
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Patten
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Hawkins ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hawkins.

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

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

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

  • Oxbow Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Willard Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Botting Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Cooper Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Rafford Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Robinson Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Darling Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Winslow Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Alieff Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Marley Bradford Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Bates Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (96 more) ...
    • Merrill Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Stewart Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Ashland Municipal Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 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.<2>

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

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

  • Masardis
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Masardis is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masardis
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
  • Oxbow
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Moro
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Moro is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro
  • Smyrna
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
  • Ashland
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Smyrna Mills
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Dyer Brook
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Dyer Brook is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyer Brook
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
  • Oakfield
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Monticello
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Bridgewater
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Blaine
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mars Hill
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Westfield
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Westfield is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 505 people
    • Mapleton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Hersey
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Hersey is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people

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

Newspapers Published in Hawkins ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hawkins.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hawkins, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hawkins.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Hawkins:

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>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 Hawkins, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- Hawkins) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.