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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 Littleton (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 Littleton. 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 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.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Littleton)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Littleton, with the one closest to Littleton listed first.
    • Monticello
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Hammond
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Hammond is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Houlton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • New Limerick
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Ludlow
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Ludlow is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 366 people
    • Hodgdon
      (12 miles [19.3 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
    • Smyrna
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
    • Bridgewater
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Linneus
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Linneus is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linneus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 907 people
    • Cary
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Cary is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cary
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
      • Cary has also been known as:
      • Cary Plantation
    • Smyrna Mills
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Oakfield
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Blaine
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Littleton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Littleton.

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

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

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

  • Weed Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Littleton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Henderson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Perry Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Watson Settlement Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Watson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Foster Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Village Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • 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>
  • Jewell Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Ludlow Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • New St. Marys Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (104 more) ...
    • St. Mary of the Visitation RC Church Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • 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>
    • Old St. Marys Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Old Soldiers Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Littleton had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Littleton had a population of 982 people.

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

  • Monticello
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Houlton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • New Limerick
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Smyrna
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Smyrna is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 419 people
  • Hodgdon
    (12 miles [19.3 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
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Linneus
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Linneus is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linneus
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 907 people
  • Smyrna Mills
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Oakfield
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Blaine
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Dyer Brook
    (19 miles [30.6 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
  • North Amity
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • North Amity is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Amity
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Mars Hill
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Amity
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Amity is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
    • Westfield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Westfield is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 505 people

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

Newspapers Published in Littleton ...

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 Littleton.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Littleton:

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