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 Cayuta (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 Cayuta. 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.
Cayuta is located in Schuyler 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 Schuyler County: Chemung, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins & Yates.
Below are the counties that are near Cayuta. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cayuta:
- Schuyler County (The home county of Cayuta)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Alpine
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Catharine
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Catharine is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catharine
- Odessa
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cayutaville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Cayutaville is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayutaville
- Montour Falls
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Wedgewood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Wedgewood is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wedgewood
- Moreland
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Moreland is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreland
- Bennettsburg
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bennettsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettsburg
- Burdett
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Watkins Glen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Mecklenburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Beaver Dams
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Cayuga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Atwaters
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Atwaters is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwaters
- East Genoa
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- East Genoa is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Genoa
- Ledyard
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Ledyard is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledyard
- Black Rock
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Black Rock is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock
- Willets
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Willets is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willets
- Locke
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Chemung County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Erin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Sullivanville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sullivanville is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivanville
- Millport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pine Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Van Etten
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Horseheads
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Pioneer Village
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Pioneer Village is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Village
- Elmira Heights
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Post Creek
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Post Creek is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Creek
- Elmira
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Owens Mills
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Owens Mills is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owens Mills
- Big Flats
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Cortland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Harford
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Harford Mills
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Harford Mills is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harford Mills
- Seneca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Interlaken
(23 miles [37 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
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Kidders
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Kidders is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kidders
- Ovid
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Willard
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Steuben County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Hornby
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Hornby is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hornby
- Corning
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- South Corning
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- South Corning is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Corning
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,080 people
- Painted Post
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Population from the 2020 Census: 467 people
- Bradford
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- East Campbell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- East Campbell is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Campbell
- South Bradford
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- South Bradford is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Bradford
- Caton
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Caton is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caton
- Gang Mills
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Gang Mills is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gang Mills
- Coopers Plains
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Sonora
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Sonora is located in Steuben County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonora
- Tioga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- North Spencer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- North Spencer is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Spencer
- Spencer
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- West Candor
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- West Candor is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Candor
- Lockwood
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Candor
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Hamar Estates
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Hamar Estates is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamar Estates
- Barton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Waverly
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Smithboro
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Weltonville
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Weltonville is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weltonville
- West Newark
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- West Newark is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Newark
- Hoopers Valley
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Hoopers Valley is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoopers Valley
- Tompkins County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Newfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- West Danby
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- West Danby is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Danby
- Danby
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Danby is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danby
- South Hill
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- South Hill is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hill
- East Ithaca
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- East Ithaca is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Ithaca
- Ithaca
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- White Church
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- White Church is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Church
- Jacksonville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Jacksonville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
- Besemer
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Besemer is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Besemer
- Cayuga Heights
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Cayuga Heights is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayuga Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,526 people
- Forest Home
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Forest Home is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Home
- Lansing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Yates County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Glenora
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Glenora is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenora
- Dundee
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Himrod
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Barrington
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Barrington is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrington
- Dresden
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Keuka Park
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Seneca Mills
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Seneca Mills is located in Yates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca Mills
- Bradford County (PA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Fassett
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Fassett is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fassett
- South Waverly
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- South Waverly is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Waverly
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,006 people
- Sayre
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Sayre is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sayre
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,338 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sayre <1>
- Bentley Creek
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Bentley Creek is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bentley Creek
- Gillett
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Gillett is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
- Middletown
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Middletown is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
- Athens
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Berrytown
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Berrytown is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berrytown
- Big Pond
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Big Pond is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Pond
- Coryland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Coryland is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coryland
- Vawter
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Vawter is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vawter
- East Smithfield
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- East Smithfield is located in Bradford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Smithfield
- Tioga County (PA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Millerton
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Millerton is located in Tioga County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millerton
- Lawrenceville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Lawrenceville is located in Tioga County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawrenceville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 633 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cayuta, see our County-by-County Page for Cayuta.
Cemeteries Near Cayuta ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cayuta.
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 Cayuta - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cayuta covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Estabrook Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Van Duzer Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Ennis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Chaffee Creek Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- North Settlement Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Red Chalk Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Swartwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Elston Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Hine Family Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Laurel Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Connecticut Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Highland Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (371 more) ...
- St. John Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Parsons Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Turner Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Cayuta had a population of 70 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cayuta, with the one closest to Cayuta listed first.
- Alpine
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Catharine
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Catharine is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catharine
- Swartwood
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Swartwood is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swartwood
- Sullivanville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sullivanville is located in Chemung County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sullivanville
- Erin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Odessa
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Cayutaville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Cayutaville is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayutaville
- Breesport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Newfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Trumbull Corners
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Trumbull Corners is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trumbull Corners
- Millport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pine Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Smith Valley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Smith Valley is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Valley
- Van Etten
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- North Spencer
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- North Spencer is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Spencer
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cayuta. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cayuta.
Newspapers Published in Cayuta ...
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 149 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cayuta.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cayuta, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cayuta.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Cayuta:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Schuyler County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cayuga County
- Chemung County
- Cortland County
- Seneca County
- Steuben County
- Tioga County
- Tompkins County
- Yates County
- Bradford County
- Tioga 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 Cayuta, 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- Cayuta) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |