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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 Pastime Park (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 Pastime Park. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Pastime Park is located in Seneca 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 Seneca County: Cayuga, Ontario, Schuyler, Tompkins, Wayne & Yates.

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

  • Seneca County     (The home county of Pastime Park)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Border City
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Border City is located in Seneca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border City
    • Waterloo
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Kuneytown
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Kuneytown is located in Seneca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kuneytown
    • Seneca Falls
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Romulus
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Canoga
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Canoga is located in Seneca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canoga
    • East Varick
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • East Varick is located in Seneca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Varick
    • Willard
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Tyre
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Tyre is located in Seneca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyre
    • Ovid
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Lodi
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Interlaken
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • 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>
  • Cayuga County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Union Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Cayuga
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Cross Roads
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Cross Roads is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
    • Aurora
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Oakwood
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Oakwood is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood
    • Willets
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Willets is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willets
    • Scipioville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Scipioville is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scipioville
    • Poplar Ridge
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Sherwood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Sherwood is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sherwood
    • Black Rock
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Black Rock is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Rock
    • Ledyard
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Ledyard is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ledyard
    • Atwaters
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Atwaters is located in Cayuga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atwaters
  • Monroe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Fairport
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Mendon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Onondaga County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Mottville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Mandana
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Mandana is located in Onondaga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandana
    • Skaneateles
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Elbridge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jordan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Rose Hill
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Rose Hill is located in Onondaga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill
    • Thorn Hill
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Thorn Hill is located in Onondaga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thorn Hill
    • Halfway
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Halfway is located in Onondaga County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
  • Ontario County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Geneva
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Billsboro
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Billsboro is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsboro
    • Dobbins Corner
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Dobbins Corner is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dobbins Corner
    • West Junius
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • West Junius is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Junius
    • Hall
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Melvin Hill
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Melvin Hill is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melvin Hill
    • Flint
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Flint is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint
    • Seneca Castle
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Phelps
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Gorham
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Thompson
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Thompson is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
    • Clifton Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Schuyler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Hector
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Searsburg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Searsburg is located in Schuyler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Searsburg
    • Logan
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Logan is located in Schuyler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
    • North Reading
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • North Reading is located in Schuyler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Reading
    • Wayne
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Perry City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Reading Center
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Mecklenburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bennettsburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Bennettsburg is located in Schuyler County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettsburg
    • Burdett
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Steuben County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Keuka
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Keuka is located in Steuben County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keuka
    • Catawba
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Catawba is located in Steuben County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba
    • South Pulteney
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • South Pulteney is located in Steuben County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Pulteney
    • Prattsburgh
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Prattsburgh is located in Steuben County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prattsburgh
    • Urbana
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Urbana is located in Steuben County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urbana
  • Tompkins County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Lake Ridge
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Lake Ridge is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Ridge
    • Trumansburg
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Taughannock Falls
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Taughannock Falls is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taughannock Falls
    • North Lansing
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • North Lansing is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lansing
    • Jacksonville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jacksonville is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonville
    • Willow Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Willow Creek is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Creek
    • Myers
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Myers is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myers
    • West Groton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • West Groton is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Groton
    • East Lansing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • East Lansing is located in Tompkins County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lansing
  • Wayne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Lyons
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Newark
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Clyde
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Mud Mills
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Mud Mills is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Mills
    • Fairville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Fairville is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairville
    • East Palmyra
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • East Palmyra is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Palmyra
    • Wayne Center
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Wayne Center is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayne Center
    • Palmyra
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • South Sodus
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • South Sodus is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Sodus
    • South Butler
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • South Butler is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Butler
    • Yellow Mills
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Yellow Mills is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Mills
    • Marquart Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Marquart Village is located in Wayne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marquart Village
  • Yates County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pastime Park, with the one closest to Pastime Park listed first.
    • Bellona
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Angus
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Angus is located in Yates County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angus
    • Dresden
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Benton Center
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Benton Center is located in Yates County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Center
    • Seneca Mills
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Seneca Mills is located in Yates County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seneca Mills
    • Penn Yan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Yatesville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Yatesville is located in Yates County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yatesville
    • Rushville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Potter
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Potter is located in Yates County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potter
    • Himrod
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Keuka Park
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Vine Valley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Vine Valley is located in Yates County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vine Valley

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

Cemeteries Near Pastime Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pastime Park.

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 Pastime Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Willowdale Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • St. Patrick's RC Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Washington Street Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Brookside Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • West Fayette Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bachman Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Jersalem Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Dobbin Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Brown Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Number 9 Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • New #9 Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (473 more) ...
    • Barnes Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Bear Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Stark Street Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)

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.<2>

While we didn't find Pastime Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pastime Park.

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

  • Geneva
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Billsboro
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Billsboro is located in Ontario County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billsboro
  • MacDougall
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • MacDougall is located in Seneca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for MacDougall
  • Bellona
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Fayette
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Waterloo
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Hall
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • West Junius
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • West Junius is located in Ontario County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Junius
  • Angus
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Angus is located in Yates County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angus
  • Kendaia
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Kendaia is located in Seneca County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendaia
  • Stanley
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Romulus
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Seneca Falls
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Seneca Castle
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Flint
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Flint is located in Ontario County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint

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

Newspapers Published in Pastime Park ...

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 62 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pastime Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pastime Park, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pastime Park.

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 helpful 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 Pastime Park:

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>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 Pastime Park, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Pastime Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.