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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Batsto Village. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Batsto Village to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Batsto Village, please Contact Us.

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 Batsto Village (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 Batsto Village. 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.

Name Variations for Batsto Village ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

Batsto Village has also been known as: Batsto.

  • A typical abbreviation for Batsto Village: Batsto Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Batsto Village is historic, it would have been located within present day Burlington County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Burlington County: Atlantic, Camden, Mercer, Monmouth, Ocean, Bucks (PA) & Philadelphia (PA).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Batsto Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Batsto Village.

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 Batsto Village - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Batsto Village, with the one closest to Batsto Village 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.

Batsto Village itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Pleasant Mills
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Pleasant Mills is located in Atlantic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Mills
  • Nesco
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Green Bank
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Washington
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Washington is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,459 people
  • Elwood
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Elwood is located in Atlantic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
  • Da Costa
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Da Costa is located in Atlantic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Da Costa
  • Egg Harbor City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Lower Bank
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lower Bank is located in Burlington County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Bank
  • Barnard
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Barnard is located in Atlantic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
  • Atsion
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Parkdale
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Parkdale is located in Camden County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkdale
  • Wading River
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Hammonton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Cologne
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Cologne is located in Atlantic County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cologne
    • Germania
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Germania is located in Atlantic County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germania

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

Newspapers Published in Batsto Village ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Batsto Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Batsto Village, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Batsto Village.

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 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 Batsto Village:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Batsto Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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' (or 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- Batsto Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.