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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 Dixville Notch (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 Dixville Notch. 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 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.

Dixville Notch is located in Coos County.

To see how the shape of New Hampshire's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coos County: Oxford (ME), Carroll, Grafton & Essex (VT).

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

  • Coos County     (The home county of Dixville Notch)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixville Notch, with the one closest to Dixville Notch listed first.
    • Dixs Grant
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Dixs Grant is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixs Grant
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1 people
    • Ervings Location
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Ervings Location is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ervings Location
    • Second College Grant
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Colebrook
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Clarksville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Clarksville is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 249 people
    • Errol
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Columbia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Columbia is located in Coos County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 744 people
    • Atkinson and Gilmanton Academy
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Cones
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Pittsburg
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Stewartstown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Meriden Hill
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Franklin County (ME)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixville Notch, with the one closest to Dixville Notch listed first.
    • Oquossoc
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Mountainview
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Bemis
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Davis Town
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Davis Town is located in Franklin County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davis Town
  • Oxford County (ME)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixville Notch, with the one closest to Dixville Notch listed first.
    • Wilsons Mills
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Lincoln Plantation
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Lincoln Plantation is located in Oxford County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 44 people
    • Magalloway Plantation
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Magalloway Plantation is located in Oxford County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magalloway Plantation
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 45 people
    • Middle Dam
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Upton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Upton is located in Oxford County (ME)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Upton <1>
    • Upper Dam
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Essex County (VT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixville Notch, with the one closest to Dixville Notch listed first.
    • Beecher Falls
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Canaan
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Canaan is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canaan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 912 people
    • Lemington
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Lemington is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
    • Bloomfield
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Bloomfield is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 234 people
    • Bloomfield
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Brunswick Springs
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Averill
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Averill is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Averill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 25 people
    • Brunswick
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Brunswick is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunswick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 101 people
    • Averill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Maidstone
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Maidstone is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maidstone
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 193 people
    • Lewis
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Lewis is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis
    • Avery's Gore
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Avery's Gore is located in Essex County (VT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avery's Gore

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

Cemeteries Near Dixville Notch ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dixville Notch.

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 Dixville Notch - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Dixville Notch ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dixville Notch.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dixville Notch, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dixville Notch.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Dixville Notch:

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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dixville Notch) 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 Dixville Notch, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.