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 Hastings (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 Hastings. 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 hospitals 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.
Hastings is located in Merrimack 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 Merrimack County: Belknap, Grafton, Hillsborough, Rockingham, Strafford & Sullivan.
Below are the counties that are near Hastings. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hastings:
- Merrimack County (The home county of Hastings)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- New London
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Blodgett Landing
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Blodgett Landing is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blodgett Landing
- Elkins
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Elkins is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkins
- Mount Sunapee
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Newbury
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Wilmot Flat
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Wilmot Flat is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot Flat
- Wilmot
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Sutton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Potter Place
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Potter Place is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter Place
- West Andover
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- West Andover is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Andover
- Bradford
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Andover
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Belknap County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Gaza
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Gaza is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gaza
- Sanbornton
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Tilton
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- New Hampton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Gardners Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Gardners Grove is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardners Grove
- Winnisquam
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Belmont
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Wildwood Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Wildwood Village is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood Village
- Allens Mills
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Allens Mills is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allens Mills
- Laconia
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Winona
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Winona is located in Belknap County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winona
- Cheshire County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Marlow
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Marlow is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marlow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 733 people
- Mill Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Mill Village is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
- Stoddard
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Alstead Center
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Alstead Center is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alstead Center
- Alstead
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Drewsville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Drewsville is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drewsville
- Gilsum
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cold River
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cold River is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold River
- Lower Village
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Lower Village is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Village
- Nelson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Nelson is located in Cheshire County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 740 people
- Sullivan
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Walpole
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grafton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Grafton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- East Grafton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- East Grafton is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Grafton
- Lockehaven
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Lockehaven is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockehaven
- Upper Shaker Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Upper Shaker Village is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Shaker Village
- Montcalm
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Montcalm is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montcalm
- Lower Shaker Village
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Lower Shaker Village is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Shaker Village
- South Alexandria
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- South Alexandria is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Alexandria
- Canaan
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Enfield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Orange
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Orange is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orange
- Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
- Canaan Street
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Canaan Street is located in Grafton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canaan Street
- Alexandria
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Hillsborough County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Hillsboro Center
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Hillsboro Center is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsboro Center
- Hillsboro Upper Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Windsor
(19 miles [30.6 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
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Hillsborough
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- 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>
- Holton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Holton is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holton
- North Branch
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- North Branch is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Branch
- Antrim Center
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Antrim Center is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antrim Center
- Chase Village
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Chase Village is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chase Village
- Deering
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Deering is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deering
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,970 people
- North Weare
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- North Weare is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Weare
- Slab City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Slab City is located in Hillsborough County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
- Sullivan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Fernwood
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Fernwood is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fernwood
- Twin Lakes Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Twin Lakes Village is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes Village
- Georges Mills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lower Village
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lower Village is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Village
- Sunapee
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Springfield
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Springfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,348 people
- Croydon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
- Croydon Flat
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Croydon Flat is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon Flat
- Newport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Grantham
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Goshen
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Kelleyville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Kelleyville is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelleyville
- Orange County (VT)
- Union Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Union Village is located in Orange County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Village
- Windham County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings 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)
- Bellows Falls
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- North Westminster
(28 miles [45.1 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
- 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
- Saxtons River
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Windsor County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Ascutney
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Windsor
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Hartland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- North Hartland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- North Hartland is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hartland
- Windsor
(20 miles [32.2 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
- Weathersfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Weathersfield is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weathersfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,727 people
- Fieldsville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Fieldsville is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fieldsville
- Hartland Four Corners
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- White River Junction
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- White River Junction is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River Junction
- Brownsville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Hartford
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Hartland
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Hartland is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,513 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hastings, see our County-by-County Page for Hastings.
Cemeteries Near Hastings ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hastings.
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 Hastings - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hastings covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Old Main Street Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Main Street Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Main Street Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of New London.
- Lower Village Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Eastman Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Elkins Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkins Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Elkins Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Elkins.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2147562 <2>
- Asa Davis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Pinegrove Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Millwoods Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bunker Hill Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- St. Patricks Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pine Street Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Maple Street Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Village Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (344 more) ...
- The Pinacle Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Croydon Flat Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Eagle Pond Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 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>
While we didn't find Hastings in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hastings.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hastings, with the one closest to Hastings listed first.
- Sunapee
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- New London
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Georges Mills
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Mount Sunapee
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Guild
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Guild is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guild
- North Sutton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Springfield
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Springfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,348 people
- West Springfield
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Sutton
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wilmot Flat
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Wilmot Flat is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot Flat
- Wilmot
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- East Springfield
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- East Springfield is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Springfield
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Newport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- South Sutton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- South Sutton is located in Merrimack County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Sutton
- Croydon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Croydon is located in Sullivan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Croydon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 774 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hastings. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hastings.
Newspapers Published in Hastings ...
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 89 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hastings.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hastings, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hastings.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Hastings:
- Websites specific to New Hampshire
- Pages specific to Merrimack County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Belknap County
- Cheshire County
- Grafton County
- Hillsborough County
- Sullivan 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> | 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 Hastings, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 from Point A (ie- Hastings) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |