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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 Jonesboro Station (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 Jonesboro Station. 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 Jonesboro Station ...

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 Jonesboro Station: Jonesboro Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 northwest 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 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.

Jonesboro Station is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Aroostook, Hancock & Penobscot.

Below are the counties that are near Jonesboro Station. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Jonesboro Station:

  • Washington County     (The home county of Jonesboro Station)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jonesboro Station, with the one closest to Jonesboro Station listed first.
    • Centerville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Centerville is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
    • Jonesboro
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Columbia Falls
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Epping
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Epping is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epping
    • Whitneyville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Whitneyville is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitneyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
    • Addison
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Columbia
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Columbia is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 469 people
    • Harrington
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Machias
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Marshfield
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Marshfield is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
    • Jonesport
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Roque Bluffs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Roque Bluffs is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roque Bluffs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
    • Beals
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Beals is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beals
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 504 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beals <1>
  • Hancock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Jonesboro Station, with the one closest to Jonesboro Station listed first.
    • Goodwin Siding
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Goodwin Siding is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwin Siding
      • Goodwin Siding has also been known as:
      • Goodwins
    • Gouldsboro
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Corea
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • West Gouldsboro
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • West Gouldsboro is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Gouldsboro
    • Prospect Harbor
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Birch Harbor
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • East Sullivan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • South Gouldsboro
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • South Gouldsboro is located in Hancock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Gouldsboro
    • Winter Harbor
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Sullivan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Sorrento
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Franklin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Eastbrook
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Jonesboro Station ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jonesboro Station.

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 Jonesboro Station - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

  • Jonesboro
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Columbia Falls
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Epping
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Epping is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Epping
  • Indian River
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Indian River is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian River
  • Whitneyville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Whitneyville is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitneyville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 206 people
  • Columbia
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Columbia is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 469 people
  • Harrington
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • West Jonesport
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • West Jonesport is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Jonesport
  • Jonesport
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Roque Bluffs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Roque Bluffs is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roque Bluffs
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 300 people
  • Machias
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • West Harrington
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • West Harrington is located in Washington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Harrington
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • South Addison
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • South Addison is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Addison
    • Northfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Northfield is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
    • Bucks Harbor
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Bucks Harbor is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Harbor

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

Newspapers Published in Jonesboro Station ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jonesboro Station.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jonesboro Station, 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 Jonesboro Station.

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 Jonesboro Station:

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 Jonesboro Station, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Jonesboro Station) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.