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 Butternut Park (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 Butternut Park. 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.
Butternut Park is located in Tompkins County.
To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Tompkins County: Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca & Tioga.
Below are the counties that are near Butternut Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Butternut Park:
- Tompkins County (The home county of Butternut Park)
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Trumansburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jacksonville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jacksonville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
- Taughannock Falls
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Taughannock Falls is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taughannock Falls
- Willow Creek
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Willow Creek is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek
- Newfield
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Ridge
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Ridge is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Ridge
- Myers
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Myers is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myers
- Cayuga Heights
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Cayuga Heights is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayuga Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,526 people
- Ithaca
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Lansing
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- South Hill
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- South Hill is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hill
- East Ithaca
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- East Ithaca is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Ithaca
- Cayuga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Atwaters
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Atwaters is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwaters
- Black Rock
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Black Rock is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock
- Willets
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Willets is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willets
- East Genoa
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- East Genoa is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Genoa
- Ledyard
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Ledyard is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledyard
- Aurora
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Poplar Ridge
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Sherwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Sherwood is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
- Locke
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Scipioville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Scipioville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scipioville
- Moravia
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Cascade
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Cascade is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
- Chemung County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Millport
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Pine Valley
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Sullivanville
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Sullivanville is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivanville
- Post Creek
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Post Creek is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Creek
- Erin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Pioneer Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Pioneer Village is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Village
- Horseheads
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Van Etten
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Elmira Heights
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Big Flats
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Elmira
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- West Elmira
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- West Elmira is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Elmira
- Cortland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Harford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Harford Mills
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Harford Mills is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harford Mills
- Munsons Corners
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Munsons Corners is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munsons Corners
- Cortland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Ontario County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Billsboro
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Billsboro is located in Ontario County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsboro
- Hall
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Geneva
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Gorham
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Schuyler County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Mecklenburg
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Perry City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Logan
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Logan is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Searsburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Searsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searsburg
- Bennettsburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bennettsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettsburg
- Burdett
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Cayutaville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cayutaville is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayutaville
- Hector
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Watkins Glen
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Watkins Glen is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watkins Glen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,851 people
- Former names for Watkins Glen:
- Jefferson
- Salubria
- Watkins
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Watkins Glen <1>
- Odessa
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Montour Falls
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Reading Center
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Seneca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Interlaken
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Interlaken is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Interlaken
- Population from the 2020 Census: 599 people
- Former names for Interlaken:
- Farmer Village
- Farmer
- Farmerville
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Interlaken <1>
- Lodi
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Kidders
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Kidders is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kidders
- Ovid
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Willard
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Romulus
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- East Varick
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- East Varick is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Varick
- Kuneytown
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Kuneytown is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kuneytown
- Canoga
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Canoga is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoga
- Border City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Border City is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border City
- Seneca Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Waterloo
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Steuben County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Keuka
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Keuka is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keuka
- Bradford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Catawba
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Catawba is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
- Hornby
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hornby is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hornby
- South Bradford
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- South Bradford is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Bradford
- Urbana
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Urbana is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urbana
- Sonora
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sonora is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonora
- South Pulteney
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- South Pulteney is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pulteney
- Hammondsport
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- East Campbell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- East Campbell is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Campbell
- Corning
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hermitage
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Hermitage is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hermitage
- Tioga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- North Spencer
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- North Spencer is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Spencer
- Spencer
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- West Candor
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- West Candor is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Candor
- Candor
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lockwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hamar Estates
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Hamar Estates is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamar Estates
- West Newark
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- West Newark is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Newark
- Yates County
- The following are listed by their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Glenora
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Glenora is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenora
- Dundee
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Himrod
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Barrington
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Barrington is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrington
- Dresden
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Seneca Mills
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Seneca Mills is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca Mills
- Keuka Park
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Penn Yan
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Angus
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Angus is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angus
- Bellona
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Benton Center
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Benton Center is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Center
- Yatesville
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Yatesville is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yatesville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Butternut Park, see our County-by-County Page for Butternut Park.
Cemeteries Near Butternut Park ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Butternut Park.
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 Butternut Park - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Butternut Park covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Reynoldsville Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Mecklenburg Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- McIntyre Settlement Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Carman Road Quaker Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Union Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bennetsburg Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- County Line Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jones Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Burdett Presbyterian Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Cronk Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Presbyterian Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Christian Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Continue List (403 more) ...
- St. James Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hector Presbyterian Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Lawrence 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.<2>
While we didn't find Butternut Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Butternut Park.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Butternut Park, with the one closest to Butternut Park listed first.
- Reynoldsville
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Reynoldsville is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynoldsville
- Mecklenburg
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Smith Valley
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Smith Valley is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Valley
- Perry City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Logan
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Logan is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
- Bennettsburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bennettsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettsburg
- Waterburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Waterburg is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterburg
- Searsburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Searsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searsburg
- East Steamburg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- East Steamburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Steamburg
- Burdett
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Cayutaville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cayutaville is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayutaville
- Trumansburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Hector
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Lodi Center
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Lodi Center is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi Center
- Jacksonville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Jacksonville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Butternut Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around Butternut Park.
Newspapers Published in Butternut Park ...
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 107 newspapers that have been published in the area around Butternut Park.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Butternut Park, 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 Butternut Park.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Butternut Park:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Tompkins County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cayuga County
- Chemung County
- Cortland County
- Ontario County
- Schuyler County
- Seneca County
- Steuben County
- Tioga County
- Yates County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for New York
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> | 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 Butternut Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Butternut Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |