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 Wantage (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 Wantage. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Wantage is located in Sussex 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 Sussex County : Morris , Passaic , Warren , Orange (NY) , Monroe (PA) & Pike (PA) .
Below are the counties that are near Wantage. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wantage:
Sussex County (The home county of Wantage)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Vernon Valley (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Vernon Valley is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon Valley McCoys Corner (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
McCoys Corner is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCoys Corner Colesville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Colesville is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colesville Libertyville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Libertyville is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libertyville Highland Lake (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Highland Lake is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Lake Hardistonville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Hardistonville is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardistonville Beaver Run (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Beaver Run is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Run Roys (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Roys is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roys Pellettown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Pellettown is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pellettown Armstrong (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Armstrong is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong Wykertown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Wykertown is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wykertown Augusta (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Augusta is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augusta Bergen County
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Campgaw (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Campgaw is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campgaw Mahwah (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Mahwah is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahwah Ackermans Mills (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Ackermans Mills is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ackermans Mills Wyckoff (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Wyckoff is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyckoff Wortendyke (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Wortendyke is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wortendyke Ridgewood (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Ridgewood is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgewood Population from the 2020 Census: 24,915 people
Ho-Ho-Kus (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Ho-Ho-Kus is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ho-Ho-Kus Park Ridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Park Ridge is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Ridge Radburn (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Radburn is located in Bergen County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radburn Essex County
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Fairfield (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Fairfield is located in Essex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield Meadow Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Meadow Village is located in Essex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Village West Caldwell (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
West Caldwell is located in Essex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Caldwell Morris County
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Newfoundland (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Newfoundland is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newfoundland Weldon (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Weldon is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weldon Woodport (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Woodport is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodport Hurdtown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Hurdtown is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurdtown Lake Telemark (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Lake Telemark is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Telemark Butler (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Butler is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butler Hibernia (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Hibernia is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hibernia Lyonsville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Lyonsville is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyonsville Hilltown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Hilltown is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltown Taylortown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Taylortown is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylortown White Meadow Lake (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
White Meadow Lake is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Meadow Lake Powerville (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Powerville is located in Morris County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powerville Passaic County
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
West Milford (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
West Milford is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Milford Macopin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Macopin is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macopin Haskell (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Haskell is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haskell Wayne (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Wayne is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayne Preakness (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Preakness is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preakness Singac (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Singac is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Singac Paterson (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Paterson is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paterson Population from the 2020 Census: 144,801 people
Borough of Woodland Park (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Borough of Woodland Park is located in Passaic County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borough of Woodland Park Population from the 2020 Census: 12,655 people
Warren County
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Millbrook ‑ Historic(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Millbrook is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millbrook Long Bridge (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Long Bridge is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Bridge Allamuchy - Panther Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Blairstown (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Blairstown is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairstown Paulina (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Paulina is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paulina Hackettstown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Hackettstown is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackettstown Population from the 2020 Census: 9,372 people
Orange County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Unionville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Newport (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Newport is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Amity (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Amity is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity Pine Island (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Pine Island is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Island Edenville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Edenville is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edenville Warwick (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
South Centerville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
South Centerville is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Centerville Big Island (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Big Island is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Island Homestead Village (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Homestead Village is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homestead Village Shin Hollow (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Shin Hollow is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shin Hollow Florida (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Port Jervis (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Rockland County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Sloatsburg (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Hillburn (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Ramapo (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Ramapo is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramapo Suffern (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Montebello (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Montebello is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montebello Population from the 2020 Census: 4,579 people
Airmont (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Airmont is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airmont Population from the 2020 Census: 8,767 people
Tallman (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Viola (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Viola is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viola Wesley Hills (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Wesley Hills is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wesley Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 5,919 people
Kaser (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Kaser is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaser Population from the 2020 Census: 5,439 people
Monsey (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
New Hempstead (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
New Hempstead is located in Rockland County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hempstead Population from the 2020 Census: 5,456 people
Sullivan County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Pond Eddy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Bloomingburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Wurtsboro (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Yankee Lake (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Yankee Lake is located in Sullivan County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Lake Barryville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Rock Hill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Summitville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Eldred (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Squirrels Corners (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Squirrels Corners is located in Sullivan County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squirrels Corners Yulan (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Glen Wild (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Monticello (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Ulster County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Ulsterville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Ulsterville is located in Ulster County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulsterville Walker Valley (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Spring Glen (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Cragsmoor (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Cragsmoor is located in Ulster County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cragsmoor Crawford (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Crawford is located in Ulster County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crawford Westchester County (NY)
Verplanck (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Monroe County (PA)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Bushkill (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Shoemakers (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Shoemakers is located in Monroe County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoemakers Coolbaugh (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Coolbaugh is located in Monroe County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolbaugh Pike County (PA)
The following are listed by their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Matamoras (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
Milford (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Millrift (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Millrift is located in Pike County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millrift Conashaugh (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
Conashaugh is located in Pike County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conashaugh Delaware (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Delaware is located in Pike County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaware Parkers Glen (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Parkers Glen is located in Pike County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkers Glen Egypt Mills (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Egypt Mills is located in Pike County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt Mills Lackawaxen (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Lords Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Rowland (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Westcolang (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Westcolang is located in Pike County (PA) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westcolang
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wantage, see our County-by-County Page for Wantage .
Cemeteries Near Wantage ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wantage.
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 Wantage - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wantage covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Wantage Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Fairview Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Union Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Glenwood Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Unionville Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Clove Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Deckertown Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
St. Stanislaus Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
St. Stanislaus RC Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Minisink Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Hardyston Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Immaculate Conception Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Continue List (202 more) ...
Seeley Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Canistear Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Warwick Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
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 Wantage in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wantage.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wantage, with the one closest to Wantage listed first.
Quarryville (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Quarryville is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quarryville Papakating (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Papakating is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Papakating Glenwood (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Glenwood is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Unionville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Lewisburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Lewisburg is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisburg Martins (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Martins is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins McAfee (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
McAfee is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAfee Vernon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Vernon is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon DeKays (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
DeKays is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeKays Amity (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Amity is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity Pine Island (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Pine Island is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Island Wilcox (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Wilcox is located in Orange County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilcox Continue List (17 more) ...
Colesville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Colesville is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colesville Libertyville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Libertyville is located in Sussex County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libertyville Westtown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wantage. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wantage .
Newspapers Published in Wantage ...
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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wantage.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wantage, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Wantage.
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 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 Wantage:
Websites specific to New Jersey Pages specific to Sussex County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Bergen County Essex County Morris County Passaic County Warren County Orange County Rockland County Sullivan County Ulster County Westchester County Monroe County Pike County Cemetery Information and Directories for New Jersey Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Wantage. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Sussex County: https://sussex.nj.us/
The official website for State of New Jersey: https://www.nj.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Wantage, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wantage) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.