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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 Huntington Station (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 Station. 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 Station ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Huntington Station: Huntington Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Huntington Station is located in Suffolk County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Huntington Station ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Huntington Station.

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

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

  • Huntington Rural Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Huntington Rural Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Huntington Rural Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • AME Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the AME Church Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the AME Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • West Hills Methodist Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Hills Methodist Church Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Hills Methodist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Burial Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Burial Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Burial Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Patricks Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Patricks Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Mt. Golda Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Golda Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Golda Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Northport Rural Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Northport Rural Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Northport Rural Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Northport Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Northport Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Northport Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Johns Memorial Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Johns Memorial Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Johns Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Melville Rural Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Melville Rural Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Melville Rural Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Carll Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Carll Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Carll Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Genola Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Genola Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Genola Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • St. Phillip Neri Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Phillip Neri Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Phillip Neri Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Lower Melville Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lower Melville Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lower Melville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Ft. Salonga Road Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Salonga Road Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Salonga Road Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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.<4>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Huntington Station ...

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 143 newspapers that have been published in the area around Huntington Station.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Huntington Station. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Huntington Station and those printed in the larger area surrounding Huntington Station.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<5> of Huntington Station.

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 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 Huntington Station:

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

The official website for Suffolk County: www.co.suffolk.ny.us/

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

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 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.
<3>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.
<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 Huntington Station, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Huntington Station) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Huntington Station. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.8533, Longitude: -73.4117    









 

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