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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Pine Grove. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Pine Grove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pine Grove, please Contact Us.
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 Pine Grove (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 Pine Grove. 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 Pine Grove ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Pine Grove: Pine Grv.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Pine Grove. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Pine Grove.
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 hospitals and 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Pine Grove is historic, it would have been located within present day Oktibbeha County.
To see how the shape of Mississippi's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Oktibbeha County: Choctaw, Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Webster & Winston.
Below are the counties that are near Pine Grove. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pine Grove:
- Oktibbeha County (The home county of Pine Grove)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Sessums
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Clayton Village
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Clayton Village is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton Village
- Starkville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Longview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Longview is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview
- Bradley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Bradley is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
- Adaton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Adaton is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adaton
- Sturgis
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Double Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Double Springs is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Springs
- Maben
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Maben is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maben
- Population from the 2020 Census: 817 people
- Choctaw County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Ackerman
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Reform
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Reform is located in Choctaw County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reform
- Williams
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Williams is located in Choctaw County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Weir
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Clay County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Mhoons Valley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Mhoons Valley is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mhoons Valley
- Cedar Bluff
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Cedar Bluff is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Bluff
- West Point
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Pheba
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Griffith
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Griffith is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffith
- Siloam
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Siloam is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siloam
- Waverly
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Waverly is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly
- Abbott
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Abbott is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbott
- Whites
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Whites is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whites
- Beasley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Beasley is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beasley
- Vinton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Vinton is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinton
- Montpelier
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Montpelier is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montpelier
- Kemper County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Lynville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Lynville is located in Kemper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynville
- Wahalak
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Wahalak is located in Kemper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahalak
- Lowndes County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Crawford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Artesia
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Artesia is located in Lowndes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artesia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
- Bent Oak
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bent Oak is located in Lowndes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bent Oak
- Columbus
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- New Hope
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- New Hope is located in Lowndes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- Monroe County
- Muldon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Muldon is located in Monroe County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muldon
- Noxubee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Fairport ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Fairport is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
- Brooksville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Mashulaville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Mashulaville is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mashulaville
- Deerbrook
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Deerbrook is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerbrook
- Macon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hashuqua ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Hashuqua is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hashuqua
- Ravine
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Ravine is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravine
- Harlan ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Harlan is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlan
- Shuqualak
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Shuqualak is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shuqualak
- Population from the 2020 Census: 422 people
- Webster County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Mathiston
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Cumberland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Cumberland is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland
- Sapa
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Sapa is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapa
- Winston County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Randalls Bluff ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Randalls Bluff is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randalls Bluff
- Fearns Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Fearns Springs is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fearns Springs
- Louisville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Handle
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Handle is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handle
- Noxapater
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pickens County (AL)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Memphis
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Memphis is located in Pickens County (AL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memphis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
- Pickensville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Pickensville is located in Pickens County (AL)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickensville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 572 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pine Grove, see our County-by-County Page for Pine Grove.
Cemeteries Near Pine Grove ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Grove.
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 Pine Grove - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pine Grove covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Community Club Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Noxubee Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- White Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Stewart Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Crigler Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Sanders Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- White Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Bethesda Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Cedar Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Lynn Creek Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bethel Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Salem Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Continue List (297 more) ...
- Henkle Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Parrish Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ruhama Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
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.
While we didn't find Pine Grove in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pine Grove.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pine Grove, with the one closest to Pine Grove listed first.
- Oktoc
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Oktoc is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oktoc
- Fairport ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Fairport is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
- Lynn Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Lynn Creek is located in Noxubee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn Creek
- Loakfoma
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Loakfoma is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loakfoma
- Crawford
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Sessums
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Singleton ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Singleton is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Singleton
- Artesia
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Artesia is located in Lowndes County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artesia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 420 people
- Betheden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Betheden is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Betheden
- Starkville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Brooksville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Longview
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Longview is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longview
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Webster
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Webster is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster
- Bradley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Bradley is located in Oktibbeha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradley
- Perkinsville ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Perkinsville is located in Winston County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perkinsville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pine Grove. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pine Grove.
Newspapers Published in Pine Grove ...
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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Grove.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pine Grove, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pine Grove.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Pine Grove:
- Websites specific to Mississippi
- Pages specific to Oktibbeha County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Choctaw County
- Clay County
- Kemper County
- Lowndes County
- Monroe County
- Noxubee County
- Webster County
- Winston County
- Pickens County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Mississippi
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Pine Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pine Grove) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |