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 Huntington Beach (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 Huntington Beach. 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 Huntington Beach ...
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 occur.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Huntington Beach: Huntington Bch.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Huntington Beach. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Huntington Beach.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Huntington Beach is located in Suffolk County.
To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
Below are the counties that are near Huntington Beach. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Huntington Beach:
- Suffolk County (The home county of Huntington Beach)
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Centerport
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Halesite
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Huntington Bay
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Northport
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Asharoken
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Asharoken is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asharoken
- Population from the 2020 Census: 637 people
- Eatons Neck
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Eatons Neck is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eatons Neck
- Greenlawn
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Huntington
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- East Northport
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- East Northport is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Northport
- Huntington Station
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Fort Salonga
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Elwood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Elwood is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
- Cold Spring Harbor
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bronx County
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- City Island
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- City Island is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for City Island
- Locust Point
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Locust Point is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Point
- Eastchester
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Eastchester is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastchester
- Throggs Neck
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Throggs Neck is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Throggs Neck
- Bronx
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Bronx is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bronx
- Population from the 2010 Census: 1,385,108 people
- Bronx has also been known as:
- Bronx
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bronx <1>
- Williams Bridge
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Williams Bridge is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Bridge
- Fordham
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Fordham is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fordham
- Kings Bridge
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Kings Bridge is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kings Bridge
- Riverdale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Spuyten Duyvil
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Spuyten Duyvil is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spuyten Duyvil
- Concourse Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Concourse Village is located in Bronx County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concourse Village
- Nassau County
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Laurel Hollow
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Laurel Hollow is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Hollow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,027 people
- Oyster Bay Cove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Oyster Bay Cove is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oyster Bay Cove
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,243 people
- Woodbury
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cove Neck
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Cove Neck is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Neck
- Population from the 2020 Census: 299 people
- Syosset
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Centre Island
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Centre Island is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centre Island
- Population from the 2020 Census: 404 people
- East Norwich
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- East Norwich is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Norwich
- Oyster Bay
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Muttontown
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Muttontown is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muttontown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,673 people
- Plainview
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bayville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Mill Neck
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Upper Brookville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Upper Brookville is located in Nassau County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Brookville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,738 people
- New York County
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Inwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Inwood is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood
- Delano Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Delano Village is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delano Village
- East Harlem
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- East Harlem is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Harlem
- Washington Heights
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Washington Heights is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington Heights
- Harlem
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Harlem is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
- Morningside Heights
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Morningside Heights is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morningside Heights
- Yorkville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Yorkville is located in New York County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorkville
- Queens County
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Douglaston
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Little Neck
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bayside
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Queens Village
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Hollis
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Beechhurst
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Beechhurst is located in Queens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beechhurst
- Whitestone
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Queens
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Rosedale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jamaica
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Rochdale Village
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Rochdale Village is located in Queens County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rochdale Village
- Flushing
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Kew Gardens
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Rockland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Palisades
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Piermont
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Sparkill
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Nyack
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- South Nyack
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- South Nyack is located in Rockland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Nyack
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,305 people
- Grand View-on-Hudson
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Grand View-on-Hudson is located in Rockland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand View-on-Hudson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
- Tappan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Westchester County
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Port Chester
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Milton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Milton is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milton
- Rye
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Rye is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rye
- Population from the 2020 Census: 15,634 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rye <1>
- Rye Brook
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Harrison
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Mamaroneck
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Purchase
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Larchmont
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- New Rochelle
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Banksville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Banksville is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banksville
- Scotts Corners
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Scotts Corners is located in Westchester County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Corners
- White Plains
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Scarsdale
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Fairfield County (CT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Darien
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Darien is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darien
- Population from the 2020 Census: 21,693 people
- Shippan Point
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Shippan Point is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shippan Point
- Rowayton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Noroton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Noroton is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noroton
- Old Greenwich
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Darien
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Norwalk
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Norwalk is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norwalk
- Population from the 2020 Census: 88,655 people
- South Norwalk
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- South Norwalk is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Norwalk
- Glenbrook
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Glenbrook is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenbrook
- Noroton Heights
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Noroton Heights is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noroton Heights
- Stamford
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Compo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Compo is located in Fairfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Compo
- Cos Cob
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- New Haven County (CT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Milford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Milford is located in New Haven County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 54,781 people
- Milford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bergen County (NJ)
- The following are listed by their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Saint Josephs Village
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Saint Josephs Village is located in Bergen County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Josephs Village
- Englewood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Englewood is located in Bergen County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 28,278 people
- Fort Lee
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Fort Lee is located in Bergen County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Lee
- Linwood
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Linwood is located in Bergen County (NJ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linwood
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Huntington Beach, see our County-by-County Page for Huntington Beach.
Cemeteries Near Huntington Beach ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Huntington Beach.
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 Huntington Beach - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Huntington Beach covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Old Northport Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Northport Rural Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- AME Church Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Old Burial Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Scidmore Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- St. Patricks Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Huntington Rural Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- St. Phillip Neri Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Genola Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Middleville Road Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Ft. Salonga Road Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- West Hills Methodist Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (432 more) ...
- Mt. Golda Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Commack Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Theodore Roosevelt Grave
(6 miles [9.7 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.<2>
While we didn't find Huntington Beach in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Huntington Beach.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Huntington Beach, with the one closest to Huntington Beach listed first.
- Centerport
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Huntington
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Greenlawn
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Northport
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- East Northport
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- East Northport is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Northport
- Cold Spring Harbor
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Elwood
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Elwood is located in Suffolk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
- Commack
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Kings Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Melville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Wyandanch
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Deer Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Brentwood
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hauppauge
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Smithtown
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Huntington Beach. See our List of 1890's Communities around Huntington Beach.
Newspapers Published in Huntington Beach ...
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 57 newspapers that have been published in the area around Huntington Beach.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Huntington Beach, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Huntington Beach.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Huntington Beach:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Suffolk County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bronx County
- Nassau County
- New York County
- Queens County
- Rockland County
- Westchester County
- Fairfield County
- New Haven County
- Bergen County
- 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> | 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 Huntington Beach, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <3> | 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- Huntington Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |