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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 Eubanks (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 Eubanks. 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 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.

Eubanks is located in Orange 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 Orange County: Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham & Person.

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

  • Orange County     (The home county of Eubanks)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eubanks, with the one closest to Eubanks listed first.
    • Northwood
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Northwood is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northwood
    • Manor Hill
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Manor Hill is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manor Hill
    • Carolwoods
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Carolwoods is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carolwoods
    • Timberlyne
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Timberlyne is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timberlyne
    • Blackwood
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Stoneridge
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Stoneridge is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneridge
    • Ashley Forest
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Ashley Forest is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashley Forest
    • Cedar Hill
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Cedar Hill is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
    • New Hope
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • New Hope is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
    • Lake Ellen
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lake Ellen is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Ellen
    • Calvander
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Calvander is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvander
    • Laurel Springs
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Laurel Springs is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Springs
  • Alamance County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eubanks, with the one closest to Eubanks listed first.
    • Brook Hollow
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Brook Hollow is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brook Hollow
    • Buena Vista Estates
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Buena Vista Estates is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista Estates
    • Mebane
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Mandale
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Mandale is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandale
    • Eli Whitney
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Eli Whitney is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eli Whitney
    • Saxapahaw
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Hawfields
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Stagecoach Trail
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Stagecoach Trail is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stagecoach Trail
    • Melville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Melville is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melville
    • Florence Town
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Florence Town is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence Town
    • Woodlawn
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Woodlawn is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn
    • Sutphin
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Sutphin is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutphin
  • Caswell County
  • Chatham County
  • Durham County
  • Franklin County
    • Wake Forest
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Granville County
  • Guilford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eubanks, with the one closest to Eubanks listed first.
    • Gibsonville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Whitsett
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Harnett County
    • Duncan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Duncan is located in Harnett County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
  • Lee County
  • Person County
  • Randolph County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eubanks, with the one closest to Eubanks listed first.
    • Liberty
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Staley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Wake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Eubanks, with the one closest to Eubanks listed first.
    • Dutchess Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Dutchess Village is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutchess Village
    • Hazelwood
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Hazelwood is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelwood
    • Apex
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Apex is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apex
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 64,388 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Apex <1>
    • Indian Trail
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Indian Trail is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Trail
    • Pickwick Village
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Pickwick Village is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickwick Village
    • New Hill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Meredith Townes
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Meredith Townes is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meredith Townes
    • Woodbury Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Woodbury Village is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbury Village
    • Method
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Stony Hill
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Glenwood Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Glenwood Village is located in Wake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Village
    • Holly Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Eubanks ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eubanks.

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

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

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

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.<4>

While we didn't find Eubanks in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Eubanks.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Eubanks ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eubanks.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Eubanks, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Eubanks.

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 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 Eubanks:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Eubanks) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Eubanks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.