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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 Randleman (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 Randleman. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Randleman is located in Randolph 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 Randolph County: Alamance, Chatham, Davidson, Guilford, Montgomery & Moore.

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

  • Randolph County     (The home county of Randleman)
  • Alamance County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Randleman, with the one closest to Randleman listed first.
    • Kimesville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Pleasant Hill
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Pleasant Hill is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Hill
    • Snow Camp
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Rock Creek
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Rock Creek is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Creek
    • Alamance
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Alamance is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamance
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,047 people
    • The Country
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • The Country is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Country
    • Glenwood Acres
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Glenwood Acres is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Acres
    • Bellemont
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Bellemont is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellemont
    • Deerfield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Deerfield is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
    • Kellam Place
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Kellam Place is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellam Place
    • Mark View
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Mark View is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mark View
    • Pickwood Hills
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Pickwood Hills is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickwood Hills
    • Pinewood Acres
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Pinewood Acres is located in Alamance County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Acres
  • Chatham County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Randleman, with the one closest to Randleman listed first.
    • Siler City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Bennett
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bonlee
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Bonlee is located in Chatham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonlee
    • Bear Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Goldston
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Davidson County
  • Forsyth County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Randleman, with the one closest to Randleman listed first.
    • Horneytown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Yorktown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Beeson Crossroads
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Beeson Crossroads is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeson Crossroads
    • Kernersville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Applegate
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Applegate is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Applegate
    • Christy Acres
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Christy Acres is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christy Acres
    • Cliffwood
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Cliffwood is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliffwood
    • High Meadows
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • High Meadows is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Meadows
    • Sedge Garden
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Sedge Garden is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sedge Garden
    • Sun Meadows
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Sun Meadows is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Meadows
    • Benefit ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Benefit is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benefit
    • Emorywood Estates
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Emorywood Estates is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emorywood Estates
    • Timber Trails
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Timber Trails is located in Forsyth County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timber Trails
  • Guilford County
  • Montgomery County
  • Moore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Randleman, with the one closest to Randleman listed first.
    • Jugtown
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Dover
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Dover is located in Moore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
    • Robbins
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Rowan County

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

Cemeteries Near Randleman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Randleman.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Randleman, with the one closest to Randleman 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Randleman had a population of 1,754 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Randleman had a population of 4,137 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Randleman ...

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 83 newspapers that have been published in the area around Randleman.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Randleman. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Randleman and those printed in the larger area surrounding Randleman.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<2> of Randleman.

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 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 Randleman:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Randleman) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Randleman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.