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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 Gardners Corners (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 Gardners Corners. 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 Gardners Corners ...
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 occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Gardners Corners: Gardners Cors.
- While the name of this community is Gardners Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Gardners Corners may originally have been Gardner's Corners.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Gardners Corners might be written as Gardner Corners.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Gardners Corners. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Gardners Corners.
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 hospitals and doctors 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.
Gardners Corners is located in Kalamazoo County.
To see how the shape of Michigan's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kalamazoo County: Allegan, Barry, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Saint Joseph & Van Buren.
Below are the counties that are near Gardners Corners. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Gardners Corners:
- Kalamazoo County (The home county of Gardners Corners)
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Fulton
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Fulton is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton
- Scotts
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Climax
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Climax is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
- Pavillion Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Pavillion Center is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pavillion Center
- Vicksburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Galesburg
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Comstock
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Comstock is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
- Milwood
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Milwood is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milwood
- Portage
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Augusta
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Schoolcraft
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Eastwood
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Eastwood is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastwood
- Kalamazoo
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Allegan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Plainwell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Neeley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Neeley is located in Allegan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neeley
- Hooper
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hooper is located in Allegan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooper
- Otsego
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Barry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Hickory Corners
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Banfield
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Banfield is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banfield
- Delton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Doster
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Doster is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doster
- Prairieville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Prairieville is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairieville
- Cedar Creek
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Cedar Creek is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
- Dowling
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Dowling is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
- Cloverdale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Cloverdale is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
- Branch County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Sherwood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sherwood is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 306 people
- Union City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Matteson
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Matteson is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matteson
- Hodunk
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hodunk is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodunk
- Girard
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Girard is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
- Batavia
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Batavia is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batavia
- Bronson
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Coldwater
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hatmaker
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hatmaker is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatmaker
- Trailtree Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Trailtree Village is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailtree Village
- Gilead
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Gilead is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilead
- Quincy
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Canada Shores
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Canada Shores is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canada Shores
- Calhoun County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- West Leroy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- West Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Leroy
- Athens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- East Leroy
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- East Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Leroy
- Joppa
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Joppa is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
- Sonoma
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Sonoma is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonoma
- Fort Custer
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Fort Custer is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Custer
- Former name for Fort Custer:
- Camp Custer
- Burlington
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Burlington is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
- Beadle Lake
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Beadle Lake is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beadle Lake
- Springfield
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Battle Creek
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Level Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Level Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Park
- Oak Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Oak Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Park
- Brownlee Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Brownlee Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownlee Park
- Cass County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Marcellus
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Corey
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Corey is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corey
- Jones
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Wakelee
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Wakelee is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wakelee
- Eaton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Bellevue
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Olivet
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Saint Joseph County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Factoryville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Factoryville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Factoryville
- Leonidas
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Mendon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Colon
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Colon is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,155 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Colon <2>
- Fairfax
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Fairfax is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
- Parkville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Parkville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
- Wasepi
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Wasepi is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasepi
- Nottawa
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Findley
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Findley is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Findley
- Centreville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Centreville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centreville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,400 people
- Burr Oak
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Three Rivers
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Chamberlain
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Chamberlain is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chamberlain
- Van Buren County
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Mattawan
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Almena
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Almena is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almena
- Lawton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- North Lake
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- North Lake is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lake
- Kendall
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Kendall is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall
- Paw Paw
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- LaGrange County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Greenfield Mills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Greenfield Mills is located in LaGrange County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield Mills
- Brighton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Brighton is located in LaGrange County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton
- Howe
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Scott
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Scott is located in LaGrange County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott
- Mongo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Seyberts
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Seyberts is located in LaGrange County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seyberts
- Steuben County (IN)
- Orland
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Gardners Corners, see our County-by-County Page for Gardners Corners.
Cemeteries Near Gardners Corners ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gardners Corners.
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 Gardners Corners - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Gardners Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Northside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- South Fulton Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Harrison Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Beard Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Boughten Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- McKain Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Factoryville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Gilson Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Indian Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Stimpson Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- North Athens Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Wolcott Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (295 more) ...
- Leonidas Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Spencer Mills Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Burr Oak Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
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 Gardners Corners in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Gardners Corners.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Gardners Corners, with the one closest to Gardners Corners listed first.
- Fulton
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Fulton is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton
- Factoryville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Factoryville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Factoryville
- Pine Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Pine Creek is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek
- Scotts
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Athens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- West Leroy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- West Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Leroy
- Pavilion
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Pavilion is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pavilion
- Leonidas
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- East Leroy
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- East Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Leroy
- Climax
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Climax is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
- Joppa
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Joppa is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
- Mendon
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Sonoma
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Sonoma is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonoma
- Vicksburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Sherwood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Sherwood is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 306 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Gardners Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Gardners Corners.
Newspapers Published in Gardners Corners ...
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 78 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gardners Corners.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gardners Corners, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Gardners Corners.
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 Gardners Corners:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Kalamazoo County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Allegan County
- Barry County
- Branch County
- Calhoun County
- Cass County
- Eaton County
- Saint Joseph County
- Van Buren County
- LaGrange County
- Steuben County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Michigan
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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Gardners Corners, 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- Gardners Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |