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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 North Newburgh (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 North Newburgh. 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 North Newburgh ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for North Newburgh: N. Newburgh

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 doctors 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.

North Newburgh is located in Penobscot 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 Penobscot County: Aroostook, Hancock, Piscataquis, Somerset, Waldo & Washington.

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

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

Cemeteries Near North Newburgh ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of North Newburgh.

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 North Newburgh - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from North Newburgh, with the one closest to North Newburgh 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that North Newburgh had a population of 120 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Newburgh Center
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Newburgh Center is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newburgh Center
  • West Hampden
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • West Hampden is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Hampden
  • Hermon Pond
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Hermon Pond is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermon Pond
  • Newburgh
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Newburgh is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newburgh
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,530 people
  • South Newburgh
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Newburgh Village
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Hampden Center
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Hermon
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Hermon is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,104 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hermon <1>
  • Carmel
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Hermon Center
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hermon Center is located in Penobscot County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermon Center
  • Ellingwood Corner
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Ellingwood Corner is located in Waldo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellingwood Corner
  • Hampden
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
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    • Snow Corner
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Damascus
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Damascus is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damascus
    • Etna Center
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Etna Center is located in Penobscot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna Center

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

Newspapers Published in North Newburgh ...

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 121 newspapers that have been published in the area around North Newburgh.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of North Newburgh, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for North Newburgh.

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 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 North Newburgh:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- North Newburgh) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 North Newburgh, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.