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 Newton Hook (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 Newton Hook. 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 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.
Newton Hook is located in Columbia 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 Columbia County: Litchfield (CT), Berkshire (MA), Albany, Dutchess, Greene, Rensselaer & Ulster.
Below are the counties that are near Newton Hook. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Newton Hook:
- Columbia County (The home county of Newton Hook)
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Rossman
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Rossman is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossman
- Kinderhook
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Stottville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Valatie
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Lorenz Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Lorenz Park is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorenz Park
- Hudson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Ghent
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Niverville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Greenport Center
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Greenport Center is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenport Center
- Chatham
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Chatham Center
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Chatham Center is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham Center
- Mellenville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Albany County
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Aquetuck
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Aquetuck is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aquetuck
- Coeymans
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Ravena
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Coeymans Hollow
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Alcove
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Selkirk
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- South Bethlehem
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- South Bethlehem is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Bethlehem
- Beckers Corners
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Beckers Corners is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckers Corners
- Dormansville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Dormansville is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dormansville
- South Westerlo
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- South Westerlo is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Westerlo
- Feura Bush
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Bethlehem Center
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Bethlehem Center is located in Albany County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethlehem Center
- Dutchess County
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Tivoli
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Upper Red Hook
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Upper Red Hook is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Red Hook
- Cruger Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Cruger Village is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cruger Village
- Jackson Corners
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jackson Corners is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Corners
- Mount Ross
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Mount Ross is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Ross
- Red Hook
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Pine Plains
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Rock City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Rock City is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock City
- Milan
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Milan is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milan
- Bethel
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Bethel is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
- Irondale
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Irondale is located in Dutchess County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irondale
- Millerton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Coxsackie
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Medway
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Medway is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medway
- Athens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Surprise
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Jefferson Heights
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jefferson Heights is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Heights
- Leeds
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Gayhead
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Gayhead is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gayhead
- Catskill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Catskill is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catskill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,815 people
- South Cairo
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- South Cairo is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Cairo
- Cairo Junction
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cairo Junction is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cairo Junction
- Cairo
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Woodstock
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Woodstock is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
- Rensselaer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Schodack Landing
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Castleton-on-Hudson
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Schodack Center
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Schodack Center is located in Rensselaer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schodack Center
- Nassau
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- East Greenbush
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Brainard
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- East Schodack
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Couse
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Couse is located in Rensselaer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Couse
- Hampton Manor
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Hampton Manor is located in Rensselaer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Manor
- Luther
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Luther is located in Rensselaer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luther
- East Nassau
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- East Nassau is located in Rensselaer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Nassau
- Population from the 2020 Census: 566 people
- Best
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Best is located in Rensselaer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Best
- Saratoga County
- Waterford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Schenectady County
- Niskayuna
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Schoharie County
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Bates
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Bates is located in Schoharie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates
- Livingstonville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Livingstonville is located in Schoharie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Livingstonville
- Manorkill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Manorkill is located in Schoharie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manorkill
- Franklinton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Franklinton is located in Schoharie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklinton
- Broome Center
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Broome Center is located in Schoharie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broome Center
- Ulster County
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Malden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Malden is located in Ulster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malden
- Malden has also been known as:
- Malden-on-Hudson
- Quarryville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Quarryville is located in Ulster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quarryville
- Saugerties
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Glasco
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- High Woods
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- High Woods is located in Ulster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Woods
- Mount Marion Park
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Marion Park is located in Ulster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Marion Park
- Mount Marion
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Daisy
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Daisy is located in Ulster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
- Ruby
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lake Katrine
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Shady
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Shady is located in Ulster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady
- Woodstock
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Litchfield County (CT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Taconic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Twin Lakes
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Twin Lakes is located in Litchfield County (CT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Lakes
- Berkshire County (MA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- Alford
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Alford is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 485 people
- North Egremont
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- North Egremont is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Egremont
- Richmond
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Richmond is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richmond
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,410 people
- Rockdale Mills
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Rockdale Mills is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale Mills
- West Stockbridge
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- West Stockbridge is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Stockbridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,250 people
- Glendale
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Glendale is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glendale
- Housatonic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Housatonic is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Housatonic
- Egremont Plain
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Egremont Plain is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egremont Plain
- Egremont
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Egremont is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egremont
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,202 people
- Shaker Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Shaker Village is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shaker Village
- Mount Washington
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Washington is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Washington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
- South Egremont
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- South Egremont is located in Berkshire County (MA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Egremont
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Newton Hook, see our County-by-County Page for Newton Hook.
Cemeteries Near Newton Hook ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Newton Hook.
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 Newton Hook - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Newton Hook covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- St. Marys Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Reed Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Riverside Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Coxsackie Village Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Lampman Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- St. Paul Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Stuyvesant Falls Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Firwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Armstrong Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong Family Cemetery
- The Armstrong Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Armstrong - Mead Cemetery
- Hallenbeck - Collerberg Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- West Ghent Reformed Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lish Homestead Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (414 more) ...
- Limestreet Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Chestnut Lawn Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
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 Newton Hook in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Newton Hook.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Newton Hook, with the one closest to Newton Hook listed first.
- West Coxsackie
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Coxsackie
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Columbiaville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Rossman
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Rossman is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossman
- Stuyvesant Falls
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Stuyvesant
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Sunnyside
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Sunnyside is located in Columbia County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnyside
- Kinderhook
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- West Athens
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- West Athens is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Athens
- Stottville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Athens
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- New Baltimore
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Valatie
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Medway
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Medway is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medway
- Hudson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Newton Hook. See our List of 1890's Communities around Newton Hook.
Newspapers Published in Newton Hook ...
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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Newton Hook.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Newton Hook, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Newton Hook.
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 Newton Hook:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Columbia County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Albany County
- Dutchess County
- Greene County
- Rensselaer County
- Saratoga County
- Schenectady County
- Schoharie County
- Ulster County
- Litchfield County
- Berkshire 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 Newton Hook, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 from Point A (ie- Newton Hook) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |