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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 Chimney Corners (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 Chimney Corners. 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 Chimney Corners ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Chimney Corners: Chimney Cors.

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.

Cemeteries Near Chimney Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chimney Corners.

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 Chimney Corners - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chimney Corners, with the one closest to Chimney Corners listed first.

  • Bethel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Ackerman Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Lent Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • St. Patrick's Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mt. Repose Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Peter's Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Dale Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Augustines Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Rest Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Rest Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Rest Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Stony Point.
    • The Mt. Rest Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Creek Church Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64840 <1>
  • Gethsemane Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (455 more) ...

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 Chimney Corners in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chimney Corners.

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

  • Oscawana
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Oscawana is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscawana
  • Crugers
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Croton-on-Hudson
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Montrose
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Haverstraw
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Verplanck
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • West Haverstraw
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • West Haverstraw is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Haverstraw
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,167 people
  • Garnerville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Jones Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jones Point is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones Point
  • Tomkins Cove
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Stony Point
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Peekskill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • Thiells
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Congers
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Rockland Lake
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Rockland Lake is located in Rockland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland Lake

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

Newspapers Published in Chimney Corners ...

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 141 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chimney Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chimney Corners, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chimney Corners.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Chimney Corners:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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 Chimney Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chimney Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.