A visit to the Commerce Village Burying Ground ...
Introduction ...
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Commerce Village Burying Ground ...
We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Commerce Village Burying Ground
Lat: 42.5917° (42° 35' 30")
Lon: -83.4752° (-83° 28' 30")
The Commerce Village Burying Ground is located in Oakland County<1>.
The county seat for Oakland County is located in Pontiac. Pontiac lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the east northeast of the Commerce Village Burying Ground .
Name Variations for Commerce Village Burying Ground ...
When doing your research, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Various errors happen - anything from simple spelling to bad translations.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give a you a feel for the variations that might have occurred with Commerce Village Burying Ground.
Commerce Village Burying Ground has also been known as:
- Commerce Cemetery
- Baptist Burying Ground
- Commerce Burying Ground
- Curtis Cemetery
- Mascord Addition Cemetery
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.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 21 that are within 8 miles [12.9 km] of the Commerce Village Burying Ground.<3>
We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Commerce Village Burying Ground, with the nearest first.
- Commerce Memorial Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Richardson Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The St. Patrick's Catholic Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- Oxbow Lakeside Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Four Towns Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Walled Lake Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Walled Lake Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Walled Lake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Walled Lake Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- Granger Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Milford Memorial Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Wixom Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wixom Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wixom Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Wixom Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- The Wixom Cemetery has also been known as:
- South Commerce Burial Ground
- Waterford Center Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Waterford Center Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Waterford Center Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Waterford Center Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- St. Mary's Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Mary's Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The St. Mary's Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Oakland Hills Memorial Gardens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Hosner Family Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hosner Family Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hosner Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The Hosner Family Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- Crescent Hills Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- White Lake Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Lake Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Lake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- The White Lake Cemetery is located in Oakland County
- Novi Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- West Farmington Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- North Farmington Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pine Lake Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- All Saints Catholic Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 32 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> of the Commerce Village Burying Ground.
We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Commerce Village Burying Ground, with the nearest first.
- Commerce
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Glengary
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Wolverine Lake
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Westacres
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Union Lake
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Walled Lake
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Four Towns
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Oxbow
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Wixom
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Orchard Lake Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- North Farmington
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Keego Harbor
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- East Highland
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Milford
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Sylvan Lake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- White Lake
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Seven Harbors
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Highland
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Novi
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Quakertown
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Farmington Hills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Drayton Plains
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Waterford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waterford have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterford
- Waterford is located in Oakland County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Waterford <7>
- New Hudson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Wood Creek Farms
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Franklin
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Bloomfield
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Pontiac
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Clintonville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Clyde
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Andersonville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- West Highland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Commerce Village Burying Ground. The following communities are located in Oakland County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Commerce Village Burying Ground.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Keego Harbor
- Milford
- Pontiac
- Pontiac lies 9 miles [14.5 km]<2> to the East Northeast (ENE) of the Commerce Village Burying Ground.
- Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Pontiac.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontiac
- Wixom
- Wixom lies 5 miles [8 km]<2> to the Southwest (SW) of the Commerce Village Burying Ground.
- Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Wixom.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wixom
Websites to help with your 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 websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Commerce Village Burying Ground:
- Pages specific to Michigan:
- Pages specific to Oakland County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
- About the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church ...
- Although we don't have a link to the Commerce Village Burying Ground
itself, you might be curious about the African Methodist Episcopal Church. See their website at:
- The African Methodist Episcopal Church
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Commerce Village Burying Ground:
- Referenced GNIS Record ...
- GNIS ID #623658 (Commerce Cemetery)
- Note: GNIS record #623658 has been archived by the USGS. It is no longer maintained by the USGS, nor can it be retrieved from their website.
- Class: cemetery Map Name: Walled Lake
- County: Oakland Elev: 283
- Location given for GNIS #623658 (Commerce Cemetery)
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Oakland County: www.co.oakland.mi.us/
The official website for State of Michigan: https://www.michigan.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> | If you're interested in how the shape of Michigan's counties, including Oakland, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
<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- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Commerce Village Burying Ground. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.5917, Longitude: -83.4752 |
<3> | While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries. |
<4> | 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. |
<5> | 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. |
<6> | 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. |
<7> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |