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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 Creeklocks (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 Creeklocks. 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 Creeklocks ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

While the name of this community is Creeklocks, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Creeklocks may originally have been Creeklock's.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Creeklocks might be written as Creeklock.

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.

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.

Creeklocks is located in Ulster 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 Ulster County: Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Orange & Sullivan.

Below are the counties that are near Creeklocks. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Creeklocks:

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

Cemeteries Near Creeklocks ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Creeklocks.

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 Creeklocks covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Lefever Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lefever Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lefever Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Hurley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Rosendale Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosendale Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rosendale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Coxing Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coxing Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coxing Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Montrepose Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Peter's Parish Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Wiltwyck Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ascension Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ascension Church Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ascension Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Beaver Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beaver Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beaver Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Mt. Calvary Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Calvary Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Calvary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • 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.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • High Falls Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the High Falls Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the High Falls Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> 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 Creeklocks had a population of 172 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Creeklocks ...

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 100 newspapers that have been published in the area around Creeklocks.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Creeklocks, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<7>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Creeklocks.

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 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 Creeklocks:

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

The official website for Ulster County: www.co.ulster.ny.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<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 Creeklocks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<7>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Creeklocks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Creeklocks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8708, Longitude: -74.0443       In this case, the coordinates for Creeklocks have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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