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 Stephensons Landing (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 Stephensons Landing. 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 Stephensons Landing ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for Stephensons Landing: Stephensons Lndg. (or less commonly used: Stephensons Lndng.)
- While the name of this community is Stephensons Landing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Stephensons Landing may originally have been Stephenson's Landing.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Stephensons Landing might be written as Stephenson Landing.
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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.
Stephensons Landing 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 Stephensons Landing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Stephensons Landing:
- Piscataquis County (The home county of Stephensons Landing)
- The following are listed by their distance from Stephensons Landing, with the one closest to Stephensons Landing listed first.
- New City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north) - Old City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north) - Kokadjo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kokadjo
- Kokadjo is located in Piscataquis County
- Lake View Plantation
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake View Plantation have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View Plantation
- Lake View Plantation is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
- Brownville Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville Junction
- Brownville Junction is located in Piscataquis County
- Adams
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams
- Adams is located in Piscataquis County
- Lily Bay
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Brownville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville
- Brownville is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,197 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brownville <3>
- Medford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medford
- Medford is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
- Beaver Cove
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Cove
- Beaver Cove is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
- Milo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
- Milo is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,314 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Milo <3>
- Sebec
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sebec have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sebec
- Sebec is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 597 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sebec <3>
- Aroostook County
- The following are listed by their distance from Stephensons Landing, with the one closest to Stephensons Landing listed first.
- Benedicta
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedicta
- Benedicta is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Benedicta <3>
- Sherman
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast) - Sherman Mills
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sherman Mills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Mills
- Sherman Mills is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sherman Mills <3>
- Penobscot County
- The following are listed by their distance from Stephensons Landing, with the one closest to Stephensons Landing listed first.
- Millinocket
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Millinocket have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millinocket
- Millinocket is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,244 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Millinocket <3>
- East Millinocket
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Millinocket have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Millinocket
- East Millinocket is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,621 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for East Millinocket <3>
- Medway
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medway have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medway
- Medway is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,312 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medway <3>
- Seboeis Plantation
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Seboeis Plantation have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seboeis Plantation
- Seboeis Plantation is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
- Stacyville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacyville
- Stacyville is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Woodville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Sherman Station
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sherman Station have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherman Station
- Sherman Station is located in Penobscot County
- Maxfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Pea Ridge
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pea Ridge
- Pea Ridge is located in Penobscot County
- Chester
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Stephensons Landing, see our County-by-County Page for Stephensons Landing.
Newspapers Published in Stephensons Landing ...
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 Stephensons Landing.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stephensons Landing, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stephensons Landing.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Stephensons Landing:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the Maine State Archives
- Pages specific to Piscataquis County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Aroostook County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Penobscot County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Aroostook County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Maine
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Maine
- Cemeteries of Piscataquis County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Maine
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Maine
- Cemeteries of Piscataquis County
Cemeteries Near Stephensons Landing ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stephensons Landing.
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 Stephensons Landing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stephensons Landing, with the one closest to Stephensons Landing listed first.
- St. Martin of Tours Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Martin of Tours Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Martin of Tours Cemetery
- Fiske Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fiske Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fiske Cemetery
- Pine Tree Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Tree Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Tree Cemetery
- Village Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Village Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Village Cemetery
- St. Benedict Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Benedict Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Benedict Cemetery
- Sherman Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sherman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sherman Cemetery
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.<5>
While we didn't find Stephensons Landing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Stephensons Landing.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Stephensons Landing, with the one closest to Stephensons Landing listed first.
- Medway
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Medway have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medway
- Medway is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,312 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medway <3>
- Brownville Junction
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville Junction
- Brownville Junction is located in Piscataquis County
- Stacyville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stacyville
- Stacyville is located in Penobscot County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Lily Bay
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west) - Lake View
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south) - Seboeis
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast) - Barnard
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south) - Brownville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownville
- Brownville is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,197 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brownville <3>
- Woodville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast) - Benedicta
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benedicta
- Benedicta is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Benedicta <3>
- Onawa
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest) - Medford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medford
- Medford is located in Piscataquis County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
- Maxfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south) - Sherman
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Stephensons Landing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Stephensons Landing.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Stephensons Landing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for State of Maine: https://www.maine.gov/
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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- Stephensons Landing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Stephensons Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.7009, Longitude: -68.9787 In this case, the coordinates for Stephensons Landing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | 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 Stephensons Landing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |