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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 Colton (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 Colton. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Colton is located in Saint Lawrence County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties 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 Colton. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Colton:

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Colton, see our County-by-County Page for Colton.

Cemeteries Near Colton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Colton.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • St. Patrick Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patrick Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Patrick Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pleasant Mound Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Mound Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Mound Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Willisville Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willisville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Willisville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pierrepont Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pierrepont Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pierrepont Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cook Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cook Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cook Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Russell Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Russell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Russell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Parmeter Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Parmeter Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Parmeter Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • White Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Church Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Garfield Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Old St. Marys Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Chapel Hill Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chapel Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chapel Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Leet Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Leet Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Leet Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Colton had a population of 635 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Colton ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Colton.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Colton, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Colton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Colton:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Colton. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Saint Lawrence County: www.co.st-lawrence.ny.us/

The official website for State of New York: https://www.ny.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Colton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Colton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.5530, Longitude: -74.9395    
<5>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.
<6>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 Colton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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