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 Raceville (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 Raceville. 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 doctors and 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.
Raceville is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Essex, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Warren, Addison (VT), Bennington (VT) & Rutland (VT).
Below are the counties that are near Raceville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Raceville:
- Washington County (The home county of Raceville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Middle Granville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Truthville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Truthville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truthville
- Hampton
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Hampton is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
- Granville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- North Granville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- North Granville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Granville
- Comstock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Whitehall
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Hartford
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hartford is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford
- North Hebron
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- North Hebron is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hebron
- East Hartford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- East Hartford is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hartford
- South Hartford
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- South Hartford is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hartford
- Porter
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Porter is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Porter
- Fort Ann
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Essex County
- Ticonderoga
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Saratoga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- South Glens Falls
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- South Glens Falls is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Glens Falls
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,617 people
- English Village
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- English Village is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Village
- Gansevoort
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jewell Corner
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jewell Corner is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewell Corner
- Northumberland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Northumberland is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northumberland
- Schuylerville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grangerville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Grangerville is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangerville
- Gurn Spring
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Gurn Spring is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gurn Spring
- Victory Mills
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Village of Victory
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Village of Victory is located in Saratoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village of Victory
- Population from the 2020 Census: 574 people
- Village of Victory has also been known as:
- Victory village
- Wilton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Hadley
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Warren County
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Brayton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Brayton is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brayton
- Sabbath Day Point
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Sabbath Day Point is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabbath Day Point
- Queensbury
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Silver Bay
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Bolton Landing
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Bolton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Bolton is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
- North Bolton
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- North Bolton is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bolton
- Glens Falls
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Hague
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Lake George
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- West Glens Falls
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- West Glens Falls is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Glens Falls
- Riverbank
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Riverbank is located in Warren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverbank
- Warrensburg
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Addison County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Orwell
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Orwell is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orwell
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,212 people
- Orwell
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- East Shoreham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- East Shoreham is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Shoreham
- Leicester Junction
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Leicester Junction is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester Junction
- Whiting
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Whiting is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiting
- Population from the 2020 Census: 412 people
- Whiting
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Leicester
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Richville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Richville is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richville
- Leicester
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Leicester is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,096 people
- Shoreham
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Shoreham is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoreham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,229 people
- Shoreham
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Goshen
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Goshen is located in Addison County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Bennington County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Rupert
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Rupert is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rupert
- Population from the 2020 Census: 682 people
- Rupert
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- West Rupert
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- West Rupert is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Rupert
- Dorset
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Dorset
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Dorset is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorset
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,937 people
- Sandgate
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Sandgate is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandgate
- Population from the 2020 Census: 380 people
- Barnumville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Barnumville is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnumville
- Manchester Center
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Manchester Center is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester Center
- Manchester Depot
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Manchester Depot is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester Depot
- Manchester
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Manchester is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,214 people
- Manchester
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Peru
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Peru is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Population from the 2020 Census: 355 people
- Bromley Village
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Bromley Village is located in Bennington County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bromley Village
- Rutland County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Poultney
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Wells
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Wells is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,151 people
- Wells
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Poultney
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Poultney is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poultney
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,239 people
- Middletown Springs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Middletown Springs is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 748 people
- Middletown Springs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Fair Haven
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Pawlet
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Pawlet is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pawlet
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,359 people
- Pawlet
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Tinmouth
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Tinmouth is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tinmouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 588 people
- Fair Haven
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Fair Haven is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Haven
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,530 people
- Ira
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Ira is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ira
- Population from the 2020 Census: 433 people
- Castleton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Castleton is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castleton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,490 people
- Windsor County (VT)
- The following are listed by their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Weston
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Weston is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weston
- Population from the 2020 Census: 542 people
- Plymouth
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Plymouth is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 599 people
- Plymouth Union
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Plymouth Union is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth Union
- Plymouth
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Grahamville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Grahamville is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grahamville
- Ludlow
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Ludlow is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,856 people
- Tyson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Tyson is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyson
- Ludlow
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Andover
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Andover is located in Windsor County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andover
- Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Raceville, see our County-by-County Page for Raceville.
Cemeteries Near Raceville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Raceville.
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 Raceville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Raceville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- Elmwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Mt. Carmel Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Hooker Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Mettawee Valley Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Warren Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- North Granville Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Quaker Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Blossom Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Town Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Stiles Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Poultney Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poultney Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Poultney Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Poultney (VT).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1092993 <2>
- Old Poultney Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (360 more) ...
- St. Raphael Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- East Poultney Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Jewish 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.<3>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Raceville had a population of 102 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Raceville, with the one closest to Raceville listed first.
- South Poultney
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- South Poultney is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Poultney
- Truthville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Truthville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truthville
- Middle Granville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Poultney
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- North Granville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- North Granville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Granville
- Slyboro
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Slyboro is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slyboro
- Granville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Wells
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hampton
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Hampton is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
- East Poultney
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- East Poultney is located in Rutland County (VT)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Poultney
- South Granville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- South Granville is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Granville
- West Pawlet
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Middletown Springs
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Fair Haven
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Comstock
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Raceville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Raceville.
Newspapers Published in Raceville ...
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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Raceville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Raceville, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Raceville.
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 Raceville:
- Websites specific to New York
- Pages specific to Washington County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Essex County
- Saratoga County
- Warren County
- Addison County
- Bennington County
- Rutland County
- Windsor 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 Raceville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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 from Point A (ie- Raceville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |