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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 Jacksonville (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 Jacksonville. 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 doctors 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.

Jacksonville is located in Onondaga 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 Onondaga County: Cayuga, Cortland, Madison & Oswego.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Jacksonville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jacksonville.

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

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

  • Jacksonville Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jacksonville Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jacksonville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lysander Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lysander Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lysander Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Presbyterian Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Presbyterian Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Presbyterian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hortontown Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hortontown Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hortontown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Merritt Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Merritt Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Merritt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Chase Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Plainville Rural Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Hinmansville Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • White Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ferris Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ferris Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ferris Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Marble Ridge Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marble Ridge Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Marble Ridge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rouse Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rouse Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rouse Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverside Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Mosher Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mosher Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mosher 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>

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

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

  • Little Utica
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Lysander
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Lamson
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lamson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamson
    • Lamson is located in Onondaga County
  • South Granby
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Floridaville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Floridaville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floridaville
    • Floridaville is located in Cayuga County
  • Plainville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plainville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainville
    • Plainville is located in Onondaga County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Plainville <2>
  • Bowens Corners
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Hinmansville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Baldwinsville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Meridian
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meridian have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian
    • Meridian is located in Cayuga County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 285 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Meridian <2>
  • Phoenix
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • South Hannibal
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Hannibal have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hannibal
    • South Hannibal is located in Oswego County
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Jacksonville ...

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 78 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jacksonville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jacksonville, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jacksonville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Jacksonville:

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

The official website for Onondaga County: www.ongov.net/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 from Point A (ie- Jacksonville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Jacksonville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2151, Longitude: -76.4213    
<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 Jacksonville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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