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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 Baumtown (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 Baumtown. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Baumtown is located in Dare County.

To see how the shape of North Carolina's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dare County: Hyde & Tyrrell.

Below are the counties that are near Baumtown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Baumtown:

  • Dare County     (The home county of Baumtown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baumtown, with the one closest to Baumtown listed first.
    • Wanchese
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Manteo
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Whalebone
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Whalebone is located in Dare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whalebone
    • Nags Head
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Fort Raleigh City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Fort Raleigh City is located in Dare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Raleigh City
    • Manns Harbor
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Kill Devil Hills
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Stumpy Point
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Stumpy Point is located in Dare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stumpy Point
    • Buffalo City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Buffalo City is located in Dare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo City
    • Kitty Hawk
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Southern Shores
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Chicamacomico Life Saving Station ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Rodanthe
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Currituck County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baumtown, with the one closest to Baumtown listed first.
    • Point Harbor
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Harbinger
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Powells Point
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jarvisburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Grandy
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Hyde County
  • Tyrrell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Baumtown, with the one closest to Baumtown listed first.
    • Fort Landing
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Fort Landing is located in Tyrrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Landing
    • Alligator
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Alligator is located in Tyrrell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alligator

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Baumtown, see our County-by-County Page for Baumtown.

Cemeteries Near Baumtown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Baumtown.

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 Baumtown - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Baumtown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Baumtown, with the one closest to Baumtown listed first.

  • Willis Tillett Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Hilltop Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Shiloh Church Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Baum Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Austin Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Austin Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Kitty Hawk.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #46759 <2>
  • Aydlett, Sawyer & Guard Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Salvo Campground Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Cahoon Family Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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 Baumtown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Baumtown.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Baumtown, with the one closest to Baumtown listed first.

  • Wanchese
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Manteo
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Nags Head
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Manns Harbor
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Colington
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Colington is located in Dare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colington
  • Stumpy Point
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Stumpy Point is located in Dare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stumpy Point
  • Mashoes
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Mashoes is located in Dare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mashoes
  • Buffalo City
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Buffalo City is located in Dare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo City
  • East Lake
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • East Lake is located in Dare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lake
  • Harbinger
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Rodanthe
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Fort Landing
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Fort Landing is located in Tyrrell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Landing
  • Jarvisburg
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Gum Neck
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Gum Neck is located in Tyrrell County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gum Neck

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Baumtown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Baumtown.

Newspapers Published in Baumtown ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Baumtown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Baumtown, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Baumtown.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Baumtown:

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 Baumtown, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Baumtown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.