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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 Howe Brook (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 Howe Brook. 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 Howe Brook ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Howe Brook: Howe Brk.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Howe Brook)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Howe Brook, with the one closest to Howe Brook listed first.
    • Merrill
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Merrill is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
    • Smyrna
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Hammond
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Hammond is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Smyrna Mills
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Moro Plantation
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Moro Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
    • Ludlow
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Ludlow is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 366 people
    • Oakfield
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Masardis
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Masardis is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masardis
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
    • Dyer Brook
      (15 miles [24.1 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
    • Monticello
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Oxbow
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Littleton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Littleton is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
    • New Limerick
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Penobscot County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Howe Brook, with the one closest to Howe Brook listed first.
    • Mount Chase
      (21 miles [33.8 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
    • 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
    • Patten
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sherman Station
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Sherman Station is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Station

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

Cemeteries Near Howe Brook ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Howe Brook.

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 Howe Brook - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Cooper Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Merrill Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Amish Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Darling Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Tarbell Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Smyrna Mills Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Yerxa Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Timoney Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Marley Bradford Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bates Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Barrows Chambers Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (96 more) ...
    • Oakfield Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Oxbow Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Dyer Brook Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)

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

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

  • Smyrna
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
  • Smyrna Mills
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Moro
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Moro is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moro
  • Oakfield
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Dyer Brook
    (15 miles [24.1 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
  • Masardis
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Masardis is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masardis
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
  • Monticello
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Oxbow
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • New Limerick
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Littleton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Littleton is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littleton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
  • Bridgewater
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Hersey
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Hersey is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Island Falls
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Blaine
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Linneus
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Linneus is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linneus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 907 people

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

Newspapers Published in Howe Brook ...

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 Howe Brook.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Howe Brook, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Howe Brook.

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 helpful 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 Howe Brook:

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