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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 Hammond (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 Hammond. 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 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.

Hammond 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 Hammond. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hammond:

  • Saint Lawrence County     (The home county of Hammond)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • North Hammond
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • North Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hammond
    • Schermerhorn Landing
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Schermerhorn Landing is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schermerhorn Landing
    • Brier Hill
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Pope Mills
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Pope Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pope Mills
    • Morristown
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Elmdale
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Elmdale is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
    • Wegatchie
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Wegatchie is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wegatchie
    • Gouverneur
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Somerville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Somerville is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerville
    • Richville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Galilee
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Galilee is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galilee
    • Lost Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Lost Village is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Village
    • De Kalb
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • De Kalb is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • Oxbow
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Redwood
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Browns Corners
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Browns Corners is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Corners
    • Alexandria Bay
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Theresa
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Theresa is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Theresa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 766 people
    • Antwerp
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Omar
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Omar is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omar
    • Thousand Island Park
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Philadelphia
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Murray Isle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Orleans Four Corners
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Orleans Four Corners is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans Four Corners
    • La Fargeville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sterlingville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Sterlingville is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterlingville
  • Lewis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • Lake Bonaparte
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Lake Bonaparte is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Bonaparte
    • Harrisville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Hammond ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hammond.

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

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

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

  • Hammond Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Fineview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Rarick Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodworth Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Black Lake Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Pleasant Lake Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Oldsville Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Pine Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Yonge Mills Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (144 more) ...
    • Old Protestant Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Oakland Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Brockville (ON).
      • The Oakland Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Oakland Anglican and Protestant Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1791202 <2>
    • Old St. Peters Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Hammond had a population of 648 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Hammond had a population of 270 people.

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

  • South Hammond
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • South Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hammond
  • North Hammond
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • North Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hammond
  • Chippewa Bay
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Rossie
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Rossie is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossie
  • Brasie Corners
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Brasie Corners is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brasie Corners
  • Pope Mills
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pope Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pope Mills
  • Brier Hill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Edwardsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Edwardsville is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwardsville
  • Elmdale
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Elmdale is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
  • Morristown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Redwood
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Oxbow
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Wegatchie
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Wegatchie is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wegatchie
    • Natural Dam
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Natural Dam is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Natural Dam
    • Alexandria Bay
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Hammond ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hammond.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Hammond. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Hammond and those printed in the larger area surrounding Hammond.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4> of Hammond.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Hammond:

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