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 Pierre (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 Pierre. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.
Pierre 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 Pierre. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pierre:
- Aroostook County (The home county of Pierre)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pierre, with the one closest to Pierre listed first.
- Fort Kent Village
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Fort Kent Village is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kent Village
- Fort Kent Mills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Fort Kent
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Soldier Pond
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Wallagrass
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
- Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
- Saint John Plantation
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Saint John Plantation is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 248 people
- Saint Francis
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Saint Francis is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
- Upper Frenchville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
- New Canada
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- New Canada is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Canada
- Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
- Eagle Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Frenchville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Saint Agatha
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Madawaska
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pierre, see our County-by-County Page for Pierre.
Cemeteries Near Pierre ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pierre.
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 Pierre - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pierre covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pierre, with the one closest to Pierre listed first.
- St. John Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Congregational Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Fort Kent.
- The St. Louis Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old St. Louis Cemetery
- St. Louis Cemetery Old
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2393985 <2>
- St. Louis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- St. John Baptist Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- St. Josephs the Helper Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery is located in Soldier Pond.
- The Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Joseph RC Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2382341 <2>
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- St. Charles Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Baker Brook Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- St. Pauls Congregational Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Continue List (27 more) ...
- Holy Family Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Old St. Charles Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- St. Hilaire Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Hilaire Cemetery
- The St. Hilaire Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cimetiere St. Hilaire
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 Pierre in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pierre.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pierre, with the one closest to Pierre listed first.
- Fort Kent
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Wallagrass
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
- Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
- Saint Francis
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Saint Francis is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
- Upper Frenchville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
- Eagle Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Frenchville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Saint David
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Jemtland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jemtland is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jemtland
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pierre. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pierre.
Newspapers Published in Pierre ...
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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pierre.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pierre, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pierre.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Pierre:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Aroostook County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
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 Pierre, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pierre) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |