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 Loring Crossing (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 Loring Crossing. 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 Loring Crossing ...
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 Loring Crossing: Loring Xing.
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 doctors and 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.
Loring Crossing is located in Cortland 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 Cortland County: Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Madison, Onondaga, Tioga & Tompkins.
Below are the counties that are near Loring Crossing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Loring Crossing:
- Cortland County (The home county of Loring Crossing)
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- East River
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- East River is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River
- Homer
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cortland
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- East Homer
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- East Homer is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Homer
- McGraw
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Little York
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Little York is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little York
- Pratt Corners
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Pratt Corners is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratt Corners
- Munsons Corners
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Munsons Corners is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Munsons Corners
- Solon
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Solon is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon
- Slab City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Slab City is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab City
- East Scott
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- East Scott is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Scott
- Preble
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Scott
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Scott is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott
- Broome County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Killawog
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Upper Lisle
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Upper Lisle is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Lisle
- Manningville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Manningville is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manningville
- Lisle
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Whitney Point
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Triangle
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Triangle is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triangle
- Glen Aubrey
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Castle Creek
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Castle Creek is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Creek
- Maine
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Maine is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maine
- West Chenango
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- West Chenango is located in Broome County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Chenango
- Cayuga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Summer Hill
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Summer Hill is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summer Hill
- Summer Hill has also been known as:
- Plato
- Dresserville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Dresserville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresserville
- Sempronius
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Sempronius is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sempronius
- Montville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Montville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montville
- Locke
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Kelloggsville
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Kelloggsville is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelloggsville
- New Hope
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- New Hope is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
- Moravia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Cascade
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Cascade is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
- Omro
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Omro is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omro
- East Genoa
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- East Genoa is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Genoa
- Niles
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Niles is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niles
- Austin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Austin is located in Cayuga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
- Chenango County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Pitcher
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- South Otselic
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Otselic Center
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Otselic Center is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otselic Center
- Otselic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Otselic is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otselic
- Beaver Meadow
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Beaver Meadow is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Meadow
- Smithville Flats
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Kirk
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Kirk is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirk
- Adams Corner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Adams Corner is located in Chenango County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Corner
- Plymouth
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Greene
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Smyrna
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Oxford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Madison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- DeRuyter
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- DeRuyter is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for DeRuyter
- Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
- Puckerville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Puckerville is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puckerville
- New Woodstock
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- New Woodstock is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Woodstock
- Union
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Union is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union
- Rippleton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Rippleton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rippleton
- Cazenovia
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Bingley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bingley is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bingley
- Chittenango Falls
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Chittenango Falls is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chittenango Falls
- West Eaton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- West Eaton is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Eaton
- Sulphur Springs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Sulphur Springs is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Springs
- Sulphur Springs has also been known as:
- Chittenango Springs
- Onondaga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Assembly Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Assembly Park is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Assembly Park
- Tully
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Spafford
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Spafford is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spafford
- Apulia
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Apulia is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apulia
- Otisco Valley
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Otisco Valley is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otisco Valley
- Otisco
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Otisco is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otisco
- Fabius
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Berwyn
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Berwyn is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwyn
- Cardiff
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Cardiff is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cardiff
- LaFayette
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- LaFayette is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaFayette
- LaFayette has also been known as:
- LaFayette Square
- Te-Ka-Wis-To-Ta
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for LaFayette <1>
- Pompey
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Amber
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Amber is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amber
- Log City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Log City is located in Onondaga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Log City
- Schuyler County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Perry City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Searsburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Searsburg is located in Schuyler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searsburg
- Seneca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Kidders
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Kidders is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kidders
- Interlaken
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Interlaken is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Interlaken
- Population from the 2020 Census: 599 people
- Former names for Interlaken:
- Farmer Village
- Farmer
- Farmerville
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Interlaken <1>
- Tioga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Ketchumville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Ketchumville is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ketchumville
- West Newark
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- West Newark is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Newark
- Newark Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Candor
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Weltonville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Weltonville is located in Tioga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weltonville
- Tompkins County
- The following are listed by their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Groton City
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Groton City is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groton City
- McLean
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Groton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Dryden
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Freeville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Peruville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Peruville is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peruville
- West Groton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- West Groton is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Groton
- East Lansing
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- East Lansing is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lansing
- North Lansing
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- North Lansing is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lansing
- Lansing
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Slaterville Springs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Varna
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Varna is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Varna
- Besemer
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Besemer is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Besemer
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Loring Crossing, see our County-by-County Page for Loring Crossing.
Cemeteries Near Loring Crossing ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Loring Crossing.
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 Loring Crossing - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Loring Crossing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- Glenwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Glenwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Homer.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #64658 <2>
- St. Marys Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cortland Rural Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Blodgett Mills Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- McGraw Rural Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- McGrawville Rural Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- East Homer Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Sessions Hill Neighborhood Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Forest Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Atwater Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- McAllister Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Atwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (476 more) ...
- West Hill Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Gillett Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Maplewood Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
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>
While we didn't find Loring Crossing in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Loring Crossing.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Loring Crossing, with the one closest to Loring Crossing listed first.
- East River
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- East River is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River
- Cortland
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Homer
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- East Homer
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- East Homer is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Homer
- Little York
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Little York is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little York
- Blodgett Mills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- South Cortland
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- South Cortland is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cortland
- Solon
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Solon is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Solon
- Preble
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- East Scott
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- East Scott is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Scott
- Cheningo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Cheningo is located in Cortland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cheningo
- Groton City
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Groton City is located in Tompkins County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groton City
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- McLean
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Virgil
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Truxton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Loring Crossing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Loring Crossing.
Newspapers Published in Loring Crossing ...
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 110 newspapers that have been published in the area around Loring Crossing.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Loring Crossing, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Loring Crossing.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Loring Crossing:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Cortland County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Broome County
- Cayuga County
- Chenango County
- Madison County
- Onondaga County
- Schuyler County
- Seneca County
- Tioga County
- Tompkins 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> | 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 Loring Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Loring Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |