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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 Oak Point (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 Oak Point. 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 Oak Point ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Oak Point: Oak Pt.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Oak Point. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Oak Point.

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 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.

Oak Point is located in Saint Lawrence 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 Saint Lawrence County: Franklin, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson & Lewis.

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

  • Saint Lawrence County     (The home county of Oak Point)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Point, with the one closest to Oak Point listed first.
    • North Hammond
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • North Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hammond
    • Brier Hill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Hammond
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammond <1>
    • Morristown
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Schermerhorn Landing
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Schermerhorn Landing is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schermerhorn Landing
    • Pope Mills
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Pope Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pope Mills
    • Galilee
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Galilee is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galilee
    • Lost Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Lost Village is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Village
    • Elmdale
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Elmdale is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
    • Wegatchie
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Wegatchie is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wegatchie
    • Heuvelton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Gouverneur
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Point, with the one closest to Oak Point listed first.
    • Redwood
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Alexandria Bay
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Browns Corners
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Browns Corners is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Browns Corners
    • Oxbow
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Theresa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Theresa is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Theresa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 766 people
    • Omar
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Omar is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omar
    • Thousand Island Park
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Murray Isle
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Antwerp
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Orleans Four Corners
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Orleans Four Corners is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans Four Corners
    • Philadelphia
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • La Fargeville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Oak Point ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oak Point.

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 Oak Point - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Oak Point covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Yonge Mills Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Lyn Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Old Protestant Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Old St. Peters Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Oakland Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Brockville (ON).
    • The Oakland Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Oakland Anglican and Protestant Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1791202 <2>
  • St. Francis Xavier Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Fineview Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Hammond Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Howard Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Mallorytown United Church Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Black Lake Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (138 more) ...

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 Oak Point in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Oak Point.

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

  • North Hammond
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • North Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hammond
  • Chippewa Bay
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Brier Hill
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Hammond
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 270 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammond <1>
  • South Hammond
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • South Hammond is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hammond
  • Edwardsville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Edwardsville is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edwardsville
  • Morristown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Pope Mills
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Pope Mills is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pope Mills
  • Rossie
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Rossie is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rossie
  • Brasie Corners
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Brasie Corners is located in Saint Lawrence County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brasie Corners
  • Alexandria Bay
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Redwood
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Elmdale
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Elmdale is located in Saint Lawrence County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
    • De Peyster
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Oxbow
      (16 miles [25.7 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 Oak Point. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oak Point.

Newspapers Published in Oak Point ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oak Point.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oak Point, 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 Oak Point.

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 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 Oak Point:

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 Oak Point, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Point) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.