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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 Deerland (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 Deerland. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Deerland is located in Hamilton 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 Hamilton County: Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Herkimer, Saint Lawrence, Saratoga & Warren.

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

  • Hamilton County     (The home county of Deerland)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deerland, with the one closest to Deerland listed first.
    • Blue Mountain Lake
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Raquette Lake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Indian Lake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Sabael
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Inlet
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Speculator
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Essex County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deerland, with the one closest to Deerland listed first.
    • Newcomb
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Tahawus
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Boreas River
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Boreas River is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boreas River
    • Minerva
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Loch Muller
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Loch Muller is located in Essex County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loch Muller
  • Franklin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deerland, with the one closest to Deerland listed first.
    • Tupper Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Altamont
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Altamont is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altamont
    • Saranac Inn
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Saranac Inn is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saranac Inn
  • Herkimer County
  • Saint Lawrence County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Deerland, with the one closest to Deerland listed first.
    • Horseshoe
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Horseshoe is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horseshoe
    • Cranberry Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Wanakena
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sevey
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sevey is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevey
  • Warren County
    • Holcombville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Holcombville is located in Warren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holcombville

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

Cemeteries Near Deerland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Deerland.

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 Deerland - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Long Lake Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Cedar River Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Newcomb Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Beth Joseph Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • St. Alphonsus Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Holy Name Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Wanakena Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Marys Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Marys Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the east of Minerva.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2224507 <2>
  • Federal Flat Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Cranberry Lake Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Riverview Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • North Creek Union Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • St. James Catholic Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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.<4>

While we didn't find Deerland in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Deerland.

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

  • Long Lake
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Blue Mountain Lake
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Raquette Lake
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Indian Lake
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Newcomb
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Tupper Lake
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Tahawus
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Gale
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Gale is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gale
  • North River
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Boreas River
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Boreas River is located in Essex County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boreas River
  • Minerva
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Childwold
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Cranberry Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sevey
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sevey is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevey
    • North Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Deerland ...

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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Deerland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Deerland, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Deerland.

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 websites either 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 Deerland:

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>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- Deerland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Deerland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.