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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 Oneida Castle (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 Oneida Castle. 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 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.

Oneida Castle is located in Oneida 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 Oneida County: Herkimer, Lewis, Madison, Oswego & Otsego.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Oneida Castle ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oneida Castle.

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

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

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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Oneida Castle had a population of 317 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Oneida Castle had a population of 603 people.

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

  • Oneida
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Kenwood
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kenwood. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenwood
    • Kenwood is located in Madison County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Kenwood
    • From Oneida Castle to Kenwood
  • Sherrill
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Bennetts Corners
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bennetts Corners have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennetts Corners
    • Bennetts Corners is located in Madison County
  • Durhamville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Durhamville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durhamville
    • Durhamville is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Durhamville <1>
  • Wampsville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Merrillsville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Merrillsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merrillsville
    • Merrillsville is located in Madison County
  • Vernon
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vernon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vernon
    • Vernon is located in Oneida County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,138 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vernon <1>
  • State Bridge
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for State Bridge have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Bridge
    • State Bridge is located in Oneida County
  • Verona
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Verona have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona
    • Verona is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Verona <1>
  • Verona Station
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Verona Station have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona Station
    • Verona Station is located in Oneida County
  • Valley Mills
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Oneida Castle ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oneida Castle.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Oneida Castle. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Oneida Castle and those printed in the larger area surrounding Oneida Castle.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<6> of Oneida Castle.

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 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 Oneida Castle:

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

The official website for Oneida County: www.co.oneida.ny.us/

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>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.
<3>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.
<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>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 Oneida Castle, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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 from Point A (ie- Oneida Castle) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oneida Castle. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0828, Longitude: -75.6336    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 29 Apr 2025