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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 Pine Knoll (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 Pine Knoll. 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 Pine Knoll ...

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 have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Pine Knoll: Pine Knl. (or less commonly used: Pine Knol.)

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Pine Knoll is located in Piscataquis County.

To see how the shape of Maine's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Piscataquis County: Aroostook, Penobscot & Somerset.

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

  • Piscataquis County     (The home county of Pine Knoll)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Knoll, with the one closest to Pine Knoll listed first.
    • Old City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
      • Old City is located in Piscataquis County
    • New City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New City
      • New City is located in Piscataquis County
  • Aroostook County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Knoll, with the one closest to Pine Knoll listed first.
    • Hersey
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hersey. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey
      • Hersey is located in Aroostook County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
    • Oxbow Plantation
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxbow Plantation have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxbow Plantation
      • Oxbow Plantation is located in Aroostook County
      • Estimated population in 2018: 61 people
    • Oxbow
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxbow have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxbow
      • Oxbow is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oxbow <3>
  • Penobscot County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Knoll, with the one closest to Pine Knoll listed first.
    • Shin Pond
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shin Pond
      • Shin Pond is located in Penobscot County
    • Mount Chase
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Chase have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Chase
      • Mount Chase is located in Penobscot County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 192 people
    • Patten
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Pine Knoll ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Knoll.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Hersey Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hersey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hersey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Botting Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Botting Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Botting Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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>

While we didn't find Pine Knoll in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pine Knoll.

  • Hersey
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hersey. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hersey
    • Hersey is located in Aroostook County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people

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

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 Pine Knoll:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pine Knoll. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Maine: https://www.maine.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Pine Knoll, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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