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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 Spaulding (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 Spaulding. 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 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.

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

  • Aroostook County     (The home county of Spaulding)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Spaulding, with the one closest to Spaulding listed first.
    • Perham
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Wade
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Wade is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wade
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 261 people
    • Westmanland
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Westmanland is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westmanland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
    • New Sweden
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Washburn
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Adaline
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Adaline is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adaline
    • Barretts
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Barretts is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barretts
    • Crouseville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Crouseville is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crouseville
    • Caribou
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • North Lyndon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
    • Castle Hill
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Castle Hill is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Hill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
    • McGraw
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • McGraw is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGraw
      • McGraw has also been known as:
      • McGraw Siding

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

Cemeteries Near Spaulding ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Spaulding.

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

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

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

  • Fairview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Nilsen Ackerson Family Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Woodland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Johnson Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Williams Family Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • West Road Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Westmanland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Capitol Hill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Holmes Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Randell Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Riverside Extension Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (114 more) ...
    • Maine Veterans Memorial Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • New Holy Rosary Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jemtland Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Perham
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Washburn
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • New Sweden
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jemtland
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jemtland is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jemtland
  • Castle Hill
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Castle Hill is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Hill
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 390 people
  • Caribou
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • North Lyndon
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
  • Acadia
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Acadia is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
  • Portage
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Hurd
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Hurd is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurd
  • Mapleton
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Roberts
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Roberts is located in Aroostook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • East Lyndon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • East Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lyndon
    • Parkhurst
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Parkhurst is located in Aroostook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkhurst
    • Presque Isle
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Spaulding ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Spaulding.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Spaulding, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Spaulding.

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 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 Spaulding:

  • 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Spaulding) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Spaulding, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.