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 Endicott (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 Endicott. 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 doctors 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.
Endicott is located in Jefferson County.
To see how the shape of Nebraska's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Jefferson County: Republic (KS), Washington (KS), Fillmore, Gage, Saline & Thayer.
Below are the counties that are near Endicott. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Endicott:
- Jefferson County (The home county of Endicott)
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Steele City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Fairbury
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jansen
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Diller
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Thompson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Thompson is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
- Harbine
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Harbine is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbine
- Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
- Reynolds
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Powell
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Powell is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
- Plymouth
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Daykin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Fillmore County
- Ohiowa
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Gage County
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Lanham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lanham is located in Gage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanham
- Ellis
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ellis is located in Gage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
- Odell
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Beatrice
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Blue Springs
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Wymore
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Holmesville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Barneston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Pickrell
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rockford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Rockford is located in Gage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockford
- Clatonia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Saline County
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Swanton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Western
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- De Witt
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Tobias
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wilber
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Thayer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Gilead
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Alexandria
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Hubbell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Hebron
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Belvidere
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Stoddard ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Stoddard is located in Thayer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoddard
- Chester
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Bruning
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Marshall County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Bremen
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bremen is located in Marshall County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bremen
- Marietta
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Marietta is located in Marshall County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
- Oketo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Oketo is located in Marshall County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oketo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
- Marysville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Republic County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Narka
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Narka is located in Republic County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 84 people
- Munden
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Munden is located in Republic County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munden
- Population from the 2020 Census: 91 people
- Cuba
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cuba is located in Republic County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuba
- Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cuba <1>
- Washington County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Hollenberg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hollenberg is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollenberg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
- Lanham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lanham is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanham
- Blocker ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Blocker is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blocker
- Mahaska
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Mahaska is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahaska
- Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
- Morrowville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Morrowville is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrowville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 147 people
- Hanover
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Washington
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Haddam
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Haddam is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddam
- Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
- Haddam has also been known as:
- Haddam City
- West Haddam
- Greenleaf
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Linn
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Linn is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linn
- Population from the 2020 Census: 384 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Linn <1>
- Barnes
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Brantford
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Brantford is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brantford
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Endicott, see our County-by-County Page for Endicott.
Cemeteries Near Endicott ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Endicott.
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 Endicott - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Endicott covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Fairbury Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Steele City Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jansen Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jansen Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Jansen Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Jansen.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #100839 <2>
- Silver Creek Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Grandy Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Bartel Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Joy Creek Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Silver Cliff Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Hollenberg Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- State Line Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line Cemetery
- The State Line Cemetery has also been known as:
- Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2149233 <2>
- Prairie Home Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Gaskill Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Continue List (152 more) ...
- Richland Center Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hope Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Harbine Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Endicott had a population of 256 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Endicott had a population of 128 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Endicott, with the one closest to Endicott listed first.
- Steele City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Fairbury
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jansen
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Hollenberg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hollenberg is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollenberg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 20 people
- Diller
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Thompson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Thompson is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
- Harbine
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Harbine is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbine
- Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
- Lanham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lanham is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanham
- Lanham
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lanham is located in Gage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanham
- Gladstone
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Gladstone is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladstone
- Reynolds
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Bower ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Bower is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bower
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Spence
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Spence is located in Washington County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spence
- Powell
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Powell is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
- Ellis
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ellis is located in Gage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Endicott. See our List of 1890's Communities around Endicott.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Endicott ...
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 175 newspapers that have been published in the area around Endicott.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Endicott. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Endicott and those printed in the larger area surrounding Endicott.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Endicott.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Endicott:
- Websites specific to Nebraska
- Pages specific to Jefferson County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Fillmore County
- Gage County
- Saline County
- Thayer County
- Marshall County
- Republic County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nebraska
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 Endicott, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Endicott) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |