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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 Painted Post (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 Painted Post. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Painted Post is located in Steuben 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 Steuben County: Allegany, Chemung, Livingston, Ontario, Schuyler, Yates, Potter (PA) & Tioga (PA).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Painted Post ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Painted Post.

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

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

  • High Street Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the High Street Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the High Street Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • West High Street Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pritchard Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Chapel Knoll Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Coopers Plains Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coopers Plains Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coopers Plains Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Erwins Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Erwins Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Erwins Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hope Cemetery Annex
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hope Cemetery Annex
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hope Cemetery Annex have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 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.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hope Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hope Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • East Campbell Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the East Campbell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the East Campbell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • West Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Balcom Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Balcom Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Balcom Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Oldfield Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oldfield Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oldfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Goodsell Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goodsell Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goodsell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Painted Post had a population of 688 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Painted Post had a population of 1,906 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Painted Post ...

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 69 newspapers that have been published in the area around Painted Post.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Painted Post. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Painted Post and those printed in the larger area surrounding Painted Post.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<6> of Painted Post.

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 Painted Post:

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

The official website for Steuben County: www.steubencony.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Painted Post, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Painted Post) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Painted Post. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1624, Longitude: -77.0921    









 

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