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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 Indian Lake (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 Indian Lake. 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 Indian Lake ...

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 Indian Lake: Indian Lk.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

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

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

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

Cemeteries Near Indian Lake ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Indian Lake.

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

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

  • Cedar River Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Long Lake Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Newcomb Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Newcomb Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Newcomb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • North Creek Union Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Creek Union Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Creek Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Union Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • St. James Catholic Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. James Catholic Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. James Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. James Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Baroudi Family Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Baroudi Family Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Baroudi Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Tyrel Family Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tyrel Family Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tyrel Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Wakley Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wakley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wakley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Federal Flat Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Federal Flat Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Federal Flat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
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    • Igerna Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Igerna Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Igerna Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Bates Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bates Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bates Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Wevertown Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wevertown Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wevertown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> 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 Indian Lake had a population of 410 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Indian Lake ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Indian Lake.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Indian Lake. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Indian Lake and those printed in the larger area surrounding Indian Lake.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5> of Indian Lake.

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 Indian Lake:

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

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>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>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.
<4>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.
<5>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- Indian Lake) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Indian Lake. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.7825, Longitude: -74.2654    
<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 Indian Lake, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 29 Apr 2025