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 Orchard 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 Orchard 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.
Orchard Park is located in Mecklenburg 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 Mecklenburg County : Cabarrus , Gaston , Iredell , Lincoln , Union , Lancaster (SC) & York (SC) .
Below are the counties that are near Orchard Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Orchard Park:
Mecklenburg County (The home county of Orchard Park)
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Mint Hill (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Allen (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Allen is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen Newell (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Newell is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newell Matthews (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Chantilly (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Chantilly is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chantilly Belmont (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Belmont is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Providence ‑ Historic(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Providence is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence Charlotte (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Greenville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Greenville is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenville Biddleville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Biddleville is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biddleville Wilmore (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Wilmore is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmore Croft (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Croft is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croft Dalton Village (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Dalton Village is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalton Village Anson County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Burnsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Burnsville is located in Anson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnsville Peachland (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Roper ‑ Historic(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Roper is located in Anson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roper Sugar Town (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Sugar Town is located in Anson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Town Polkton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Polkton is located in Anson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polkton Population from the 2020 Census: 2,288 people
Cabarrus County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Harrisburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Midland (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Cannon Crossroads (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Cannon Crossroads is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cannon Crossroads Cannon Crossroads has also been known as:
Cannon Cross Roads Cannon's Crossroads Wallace Cross Roads Wallace Crossroads Bosts Mill ‑ Historic(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Bosts Mill is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosts Mill Concord (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Georgeville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Georgeville is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgeville Poplar Tent (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Poplar Tent is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Tent Tulin ‑ Historic(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Tulin is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulin Fisher Town (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Fisher Town is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher Town Mount Pleasant (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Rimer (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Rimer is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rimer Catawba County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Lake Norman of Catawba (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Terrell (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Gaston County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Brown Town (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Brown Town is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown Town Belmont (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Mount Holly (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Lucia (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Lucia is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucia Catawba ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Catawba is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba Cramerton (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Woodland ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Woodland is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland McAdenville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Lowell (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Begonia ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Begonia is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Begonia Spencer Mountain (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Spencer Mountain is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer Mountain Estimated population in 2016: 36 people
Ranlo (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Ranlo is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ranlo Population from the 2020 Census: 3,708 people
Smyre (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
Smyre is located in Gaston County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyre Iredell County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Mount Mourne (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Mount Mourne is located in Iredell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Mourne Mooresville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Mayhew (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Mayhew is located in Iredell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayhew Doolie (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Doolie is located in Iredell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doolie Mazeppa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Mazeppa is located in Iredell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mazeppa Shepherds (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Shepherds is located in Iredell County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shepherds Lincoln County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Lowesville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Lowesville is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowesville Triangle ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Triangle is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle Westport (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Westport is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport Machpelah (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Machpelah is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Machpelah Denver (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Iron Station (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Iron Station is located in Lincoln County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Station Rowan County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Kannapolis (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Enochville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Enochville is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enochville North Kannapolis (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
North Kannapolis is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Kannapolis Landis (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Corriher Heights (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Corriher Heights is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corriher Heights Five Points (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Five Points is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points China Grove (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Five Forks (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Five Forks is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Forks Harts ‑ Historic(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Harts is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harts Harris Chapel (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Harris Chapel is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris Chapel Shupings Mill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Shupings Mill is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shupings Mill Correll Park (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Correll Park is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Correll Park Garfield ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Garfield is located in Rowan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield Stanly County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Locust (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Stanfield (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Red Cross (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Red Cross is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Cross Population from the 2020 Census: 769 people
Lambert (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Lambert is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lambert Oakboro (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
Bloomington (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Bloomington is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington Millingport (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Millingport is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millingport Plyer (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Plyer is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plyer Cedar Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Cedar Village is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Village Albemarle (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Misenheimer (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Misenheimer is located in Stanly County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Misenheimer Population from the 2020 Census: 742 people
New London (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Richfield (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Union County
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Stallings (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Hemby Bridge (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Hemby Bridge is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemby Bridge Population from the 2020 Census: 1,846 people
Indian Trail (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Lake Park (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Lake Park is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Park Population from the 2020 Census: 3,999 people
Fairview (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Fairview is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Population from the 2020 Census: 3,984 people
White Oak (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
White Oak is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oak Unionville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Unionville is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville Population from the 2020 Census: 7,344 people
Wesley Chapel (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Monroe (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Marvin (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Marvin is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marvin Population from the 2020 Census: 6,920 people
Carmel Village (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Carmel Village is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmel Village Mineral Springs (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Fairfield (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Fairfield is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield Lancaster County (SC)
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Camp Cox (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Camp Cox is located in Lancaster County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Cox Colonial Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Colonial Village is located in Lancaster County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village Indian Land (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Van Wyck (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Springdell (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Springdell is located in Lancaster County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springdell York County (SC)
The following are listed by their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Fort Mill (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Riverview (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Riverview is located in York County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview Lake Wylie (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Tega Cay (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
India Hook (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
India Hook is located in York County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for India Hook Lesslie (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Lesslie is located in York County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lesslie Catawba (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Newport (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Newport is located in York County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Rock Hill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Roddey (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Roddey is located in York County (SC) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roddey Roddey has also been known as:
Coates Tavern Bowling Green (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Orchard Park, see our County-by-County Page for Orchard Park .
Cemeteries Near Orchard Park ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Orchard 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 Orchard Park - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Orchard Park covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Logan Chapel CME Church Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Sunset Memory Gardens (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Charlotte Memorial Gardens (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Rice Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice Cemetery The Rice Cemetery has also been known as:
Hartt Cemetery Evergreen Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Plaza Road Baptist Church Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Evergreen Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Evergreen Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Sharon Memorial Park (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Newell Baptist Church Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Ira V. Ferguson Memorial Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Carmel Presbyterian Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Continue List (148 more) ...
Mt. Moriah Baptist Church Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Sugar Creek Burying Ground (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Ritch Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 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 Orchard Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Orchard Park.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Orchard Park, with the one closest to Orchard Park listed first.
Burdett ‑ Historic(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Burdett is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdett Kingwood ‑ Historic(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Kingwood is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingwood Mint Hill (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Eastfield (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Eastfield is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastfield Newell (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Newell is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newell Matthews (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Hoods ‑ Historic(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Hoods is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoods Pioneer Mills (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Pioneer Mills is located in Cabarrus County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Mills Sardis (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Sardis is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sardis Harrisburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Monteith ‑ Historic(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Monteith is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monteith Derita (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Derita is located in Mecklenburg County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derita Continue List (14 more) ...
Charlotte (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Indian Trail (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Stouts (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Stouts is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stouts
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Orchard Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around Orchard Park .
Newspapers Published in Orchard 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 108 newspapers that have been published in the area around Orchard Park.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Orchard Park, there are papers which were published within 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Orchard Park.
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 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 Orchard Park:
Websites specific to North Carolina Pages specific to Mecklenburg County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Anson County Cabarrus County Catawba County Gaston County Iredell County Lincoln County Rowan County Stanly County Union County Lancaster County York County Cemetery Information and Directories for North Carolina Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Orchard Park. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Mecklenburg County: https://www.mecknc.gov/
The official website for State of North Carolina: https://www.nc.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Orchard Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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- Orchard Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.