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 Grantham (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 Grantham. 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.
Grantham is located in Sullivan 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 Sullivan County: Cheshire, Grafton, Hillsborough, Merrimack, Windham (VT) & Windsor (VT).
Below are the counties that are near Grantham. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Grantham:
- Sullivan County (The home county of Grantham)
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- North Grantham
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- North Grantham is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Grantham
- Croydon
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
- Springfield
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Springfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,348 people
- Georges Mills
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Croydon Flat
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Croydon Flat is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon Flat
- Meriden
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Meriden is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meriden
- Fernwood
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Fernwood is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fernwood
- Sunapee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Lower Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lower Village is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Village
- Twin Lakes Village
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Twin Lakes Village is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes Village
- Newport
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- South Cornish
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- South Cornish is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cornish
- Belknap County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- New Hampton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Gaza
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Gaza is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaza
- Sanbornton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Tilton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Gardners Grove
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Gardners Grove is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardners Grove
- Cheshire County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Marlow
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Marlow is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marlow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 733 people
- Alstead
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Alstead Center
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Alstead Center is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alstead Center
- Mill Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Mill Village is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Stoddard
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Drewsville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Drewsville is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drewsville
- Cold River
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cold River is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold River
- Grafton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Montcalm
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Montcalm is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm
- Lockehaven
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Lockehaven is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockehaven
- Upper Shaker Village
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Upper Shaker Village is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shaker Village
- Lower Shaker Village
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Lower Shaker Village is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shaker Village
- Enfield
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Grafton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Mascoma
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Mascoma is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mascoma
- East Grafton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- East Grafton is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grafton
- Canaan
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lebanon
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Canaan Street
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Canaan Street is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canaan Street
- Meadow Brook Village
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Meadow Brook Village is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Brook Village
- Hillsborough County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Hillsboro Center
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Hillsboro Center is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Center
- Hillsboro Upper Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Windsor
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Windsor is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
- Hillsboro Lower Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Hillsborough
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hillsborough is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsborough
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,019 people
- Hillsborough has also been known as:
- Hillsboro
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hillsborough <1>
- North Branch
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- North Branch is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Branch
- Holton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Holton is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holton
- Merrimack County
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Blodgett Landing
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Blodgett Landing is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blodgett Landing
- New London
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Sunapee
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Wilmot
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Elkins
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Elkins is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkins
- Newbury
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Danbury
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- West Andover
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- West Andover is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Andover
- Wilmot Flat
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Wilmot Flat is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot Flat
- Potter Place
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Potter Place is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter Place
- Sutton
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Andover
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Orange County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Union Village
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Union Village is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Village
- Thetford Center
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Thetford
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Thetford is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thetford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,525 people
- Ely
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Ely is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- South Strafford
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Fairlee
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Post Mills
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Post Mills is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Mills
- Strafford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Strafford is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strafford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,058 people
- Strafford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Old City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Old City is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old City
- Fairlee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Fairlee is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairlee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 976 people
- Windham County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Brockways Mills
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Brockways Mills is located in Windham County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockways Mills
- Rockingham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Rockingham
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Rockingham is located in Windham County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockingham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,986 people
- Bellows Falls
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- North Westminster
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- North Westminster is located in Windham County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Westminster
- Estimated population in 2011: 246 people
- Saxtons River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Windsor County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- North Hartland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- North Hartland is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hartland
- Windsor
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Hartland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- White River Junction
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- White River Junction is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River Junction
- Ascutney
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hartland Four Corners
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Windsor
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Windsor is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windsor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,284 people
- Hartford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Wilder
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Fieldsville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Fieldsville is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fieldsville
- Hartland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Hartland is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,513 people
- Brownsville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Grantham, see our County-by-County Page for Grantham.
Cemeteries Near Grantham ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grantham.
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 Grantham - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Grantham covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Dunbar Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Burpee Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Hastings Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Village Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- The Pinacle Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Asa Davis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Eastman Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Croydon Flat Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- George Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Gleason Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Hopkins Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Purmort Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Continue List (343 more) ...
- North Newport Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Newport Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the North Newport Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the northwest of Newport.
- The North Newport Cemetery has also been known as:
- Northville Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2145902 <2>
- Pinegrove Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Lower Village Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
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 Grantham had a population of 168 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Grantham had a population of 2,955 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Grantham, with the one closest to Grantham listed first.
- Croydon
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
- North Grantham
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- North Grantham is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Grantham
- West Springfield
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Croydon Flat
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Croydon Flat is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon Flat
- Georges Mills
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Springfield
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Springfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,348 people
- Meriden
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Meriden is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meriden
- Montcalm
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Montcalm is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm
- North Newport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- North Newport is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Newport
- Guild
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Guild is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guild
- Sunapee
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- East Springfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- East Springfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Springfield
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Enfield Center
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Enfield Center is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enfield Center
- East Plainfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- East Plainfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Plainfield
- Cornish Flat
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Cornish Flat is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornish Flat
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Grantham. See our List of 1890's Communities around Grantham.
Newspapers Published in Grantham ...
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 100 newspapers that have been published in the area around Grantham.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Grantham, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Grantham.
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 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 Grantham:
- Websites specific to New Hampshire
- Pages specific to Sullivan County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Belknap County
- Cheshire County
- Grafton County
- Hillsborough County
- Merrimack County
- Orange County
- Windham County
- Windsor County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New Hampshire
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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grantham) 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 Grantham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |