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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 Whichard (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 Whichard. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Whichard is located in Pitt 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 Pitt County: Beaufort, Craven, Edgecombe, Greene, Lenoir, Martin & Wilson.

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

  • Pitt County     (The home county of Whichard)
  • Beaufort County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whichard, with the one closest to Whichard listed first.
    • Rosedale
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Chocowinity
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Washington
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Washington Park
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Washington Park is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 429 people
    • River Road
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • River Road is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Road
    • Pinetown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Walla Watta
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Whitepost
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Gaylord
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Gaylord is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaylord
    • Blounts Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Blounts Creek is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blounts Creek
    • Pomouk Indian Village ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Pomouk Indian Village is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomouk Indian Village
    • Bath
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bath is located in Beaufort County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 241 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bath <1>
  • Bertie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whichard, with the one closest to Whichard listed first.
    • Drew
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Windsor
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lewiston Woodville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Lewiston Woodville is located in Bertie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewiston Woodville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 473 people
  • Craven County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whichard, with the one closest to Whichard listed first.
    • Vanceboro
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Fort Barnwell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Edgecombe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whichard, with the one closest to Whichard listed first.
    • Conetoe
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Coakley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Cobb Town
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Cobb Town is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cobb Town
    • Sharp Point
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Sharp Point is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharp Point
    • Princeville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Henrietta
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Henrietta is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henrietta
    • Speed
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Tarboro
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Fairview
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Fairview is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
    • Hope Lodge
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Pinetops
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Summerfield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Summerfield is located in Edgecombe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerfield
    • Macclesfield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Greene County
  • Halifax County
  • Lenoir County
  • Martin County
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whichard, with the one closest to Whichard listed first.
    • Monticello ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Monticello is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
    • Plymouth
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Wilson County

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

Cemeteries Near Whichard ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Whichard.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Whichard, with the one closest to Whichard 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 Whichard in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Whichard.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Whichard ...

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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Whichard.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Whichard, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Whichard.

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 Whichard:

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Whichard) 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 Whichard, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.