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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 Crandon Lakes (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 Crandon Lakes. 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 Crandon Lakes ...

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 have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Crandon Lakes: Crandon Lks.

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.

Crandon Lakes is located in Sussex County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Sussex County: Morris, Passaic, Warren, Orange (NY), Monroe (PA) & Pike (PA).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Crandon Lakes ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crandon Lakes.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Crandon Lakes, with the one closest to Crandon Lakes 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.<6>

While we didn't find Crandon Lakes in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Crandon Lakes.

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

  • Swartswood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Wallpack Center
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Middleville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Washingtonville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Washingtonville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washingtonville
    • Washingtonville is located in Sussex County
  • Balesville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Normanook
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Delaware
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Delaware have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaware
    • Delaware is located in Pike County (PA)
  • Bevans
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bevans have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bevans
    • Bevans is located in Sussex County
  • Halsey
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halsey have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halsey
    • Halsey is located in Sussex County
  • Augusta
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Egypt Mills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Flatbrookville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flatbrookville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatbrookville
    • Flatbrookville is located in Sussex County
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Dingmans Ferry
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dingmans Ferry have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dingmans Ferry
      • Dingmans Ferry is located in Pike County (PA)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dingmans Ferry <3>
    • Stillwater
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stillwater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater
      • Stillwater is located in Sussex County
    • Fredon
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fredon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredon
      • Fredon is located in Sussex County

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

Newspapers Published in Crandon Lakes ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crandon Lakes.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crandon Lakes, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crandon Lakes.

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 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 Crandon Lakes:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Crandon Lakes. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Sussex County: www.sussex.nj.us/

The official website for State of New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Crandon Lakes) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Crandon Lakes. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.1250, Longitude: -74.8399    
<5>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.
<6>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 Crandon Lakes, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025