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 Greenfield Park (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 Greenfield Park. 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 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.
Greenfield Park is located in Calhoun 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 Calhoun County: Barry, Branch, Eaton, Hillsdale, Jackson, Kalamazoo & Saint Joseph.
Below are the counties that are near Greenfield Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Greenfield Park:
- Calhoun County (The home county of Greenfield Park)
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Verona Park
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Verona Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona Park
- Brownlee Park
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Brownlee Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownlee Park
- Battle Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Pennfield
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pennfield is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennfield
- Beadle Lake
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Beadle Lake is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beadle Lake
- Ceresco
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ceresco is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceresco
- Springfield
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Bedford
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Oak Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Oak Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Park
- Level Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Level Park is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Level Park
- Sonoma
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sonoma is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonoma
- Fort Custer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Fort Custer is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Custer
- Former name for Fort Custer:
- Camp Custer
- Joppa
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Joppa is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
- Allegan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Hooper
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Hooper is located in Allegan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooper
- Neeley
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Neeley is located in Allegan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neeley
- Plainwell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Martin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Otsego
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Barry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Banfield
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Banfield is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banfield
- Dowling
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Dowling is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dowling
- Hickory Corners
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Maple Grove
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Maple Grove is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Cedar Creek
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cedar Creek is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
- Delton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Nashville
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Morgan
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Morgan is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan
- Cloverdale
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Cloverdale is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
- Prairieville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Prairieville is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairieville
- Doster
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Doster is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doster
- Hastings
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Woodland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Woodland is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 449 people
- Branch County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Union City
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Girard
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Girard is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
- Hodunk
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Hodunk is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hodunk
- Sherwood
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Sherwood is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 306 people
- Matteson
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Matteson is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matteson
- Trailtree Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Trailtree Village is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trailtree Village
- Coldwater
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Batavia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Batavia is located in Branch County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Batavia
- Quincy
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Eaton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Bellevue
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Olivet
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Ainger
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ainger is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ainger
- Carlisle
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Carlisle is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlisle
- Vermontville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Chester
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Chester is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
- Charlotte
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Charlesworth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Charlesworth is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlesworth
- Gresham
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Gresham is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gresham
- Stalls Corner
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Stalls Corner is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stalls Corner
- Little Venice
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Little Venice is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Venice
- Eaton Rapids
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Needmore
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Needmore is located in Eaton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Needmore
- Hillsdale County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Litchfield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mosherville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Mosherville is located in Hillsdale County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosherville
- Ingham County
- Onondaga
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Ionia County
- Lake Odessa
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Jackson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Devereaux
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Devereaux is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devereaux
- Springport
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Parma
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Concord
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tompkins
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Tompkins is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tompkins
- Kalamazoo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Augusta
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Climax
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Climax is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
- South Gull Lake
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- South Gull Lake is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Gull Lake
- Yorkville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Yorkville is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkville
- Galesburg
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Highland Park
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Highland Park is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park
- Richland
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Scotts
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Fulton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Fulton is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton
- Pavillion Center
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Pavillion Center is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pavillion Center
- Comstock
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Comstock is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
- East Cooper
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- East Cooper is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Cooper
- Eastwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Eastwood is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastwood
- Saint Joseph County
- The following are listed by their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Factoryville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Factoryville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Factoryville
- Leonidas
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Colon
(27 miles [43.5 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 <1>
- Mendon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Fairfax
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Fairfax is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
- Parkville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Parkville is located in Saint Joseph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Greenfield Park, see our County-by-County Page for Greenfield Park.
Cemeteries Near Greenfield Park ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Greenfield Park.
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 Greenfield Park - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Greenfield Park covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mt. Olivet Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Olivet Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Olivet Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Battle Creek.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1153 <2>
- Oak Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hill Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Oak Hill Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Battle Creek.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1260 <2>
- Floral Lawn Memorial Gardens
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Sandstone Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- West Pennfield 'Hicks' Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pennfield 'Hicks' Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the West Pennfield 'Hicks' Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Pennfield.
- The West Pennfield 'Hicks' Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hicks Cemetery
- Hicks / West Pennfield Cemetery
- Pennfield Charter Twp. Hicks Cemetery
- West Pennfield Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #171020 <2>
- Holiday Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Haskell Home Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Reese Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Sunset Gardens Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Youngs Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Memorial Park Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (291 more) ...
- Dubois Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Newbre Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Ceresco Cemetery
(5 miles [8 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 Greenfield Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Greenfield Park.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Greenfield Park, with the one closest to Greenfield Park listed first.
- Battle Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Ceresco
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Ceresco is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceresco
- Bedford
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sonoma
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sonoma is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonoma
- Assyria
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Assyria is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assyria
- Bellevue
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Joppa
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Joppa is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joppa
- Marshall
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- West Leroy
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- West Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Leroy
- Lacey
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Lacey is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacey
- Banfield
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Banfield is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banfield
- Climax
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Climax is located in Kalamazoo County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Climax
- Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- East Leroy
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- East Leroy is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Leroy
- Pine Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Pine Creek is located in Calhoun County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek
- Olivet
(13 miles [20.9 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 Greenfield Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around Greenfield Park.
Newspapers Published in Greenfield Park ...
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 126 newspapers that have been published in the area around Greenfield Park.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Greenfield Park, 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 Greenfield Park.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Greenfield Park:
- Websites specific to Michigan
- Pages specific to Calhoun County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Allegan County
- Barry County
- Branch County
- Eaton County
- Hillsdale County
- Ingham County
- Ionia County
- Jackson County
- Kalamazoo County
- Saint Joseph County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Michigan
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> | 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. |
| <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 Greenfield Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Greenfield Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |