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 Chipman (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 Chipman. 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 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 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.
Chipman is located in Saint Lawrence 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 Saint Lawrence County: Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson & Lewis.
Below are the counties that are near Chipman. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Chipman:
- Saint Lawrence County (The home county of Chipman)
- The following are listed by their distance from Chipman, with the one closest to Chipman listed first.
- Madrid Springs
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Madrid Springs is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madrid Springs
- Drews Corner
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Drews Corner is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drews Corner
- Waddington
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Lisbon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Slab City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Slab City is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
- Norfolk
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Norwood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Raymondville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Sisson
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Sisson is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisson
- North Stockholm
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- North Stockholm is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Stockholm
- Canton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
- Potsdam
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Chipman, with the one closest to Chipman listed first.
- Hogansburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Alburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Alburg is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Chipman, see our County-by-County Page for Chipman.
Cemeteries Near Chipman ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chipman.
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 Chipman - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Chipman covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chipman, with the one closest to Chipman listed first.
- Madrid Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Union Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Scotch Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Doran Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- St. James Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Haskell Ridge Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Brookside Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Martin Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Chamberlain Corners Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Iroquois United Church Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (156 more) ...
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Pleasant Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Morrisburg (ON).
- The Mt. Pleasant Cemetery has also been known as:
- Mariatown Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2333685 <2>
- Fulton Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Lisbon Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
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 Chipman in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chipman.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Chipman, with the one closest to Chipman listed first.
- Madrid Springs
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Madrid Springs is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madrid Springs
- Madrid
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bucks Bridge
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bucks Bridge is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Bridge
- Waddington
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Lisbon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Chase Mills
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Morley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Morley is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morley
- West Potsdam
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- West Potsdam is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Potsdam
- Norwood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Norfolk
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Flackville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Flackville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flackville
- Sisson
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Sisson is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sisson
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Raymondville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Louisville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Louisville is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisville
- Canton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Canton is located in Saint Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,482 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Canton <1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Chipman. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chipman.
Newspapers Published in Chipman ...
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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chipman.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chipman, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chipman.
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 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 Chipman:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Saint Lawrence County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Chipman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Chipman) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |