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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 Riverside (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 Riverside. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Riverside is located in Suffolk County.

To see how the shape of New York's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

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

  • Suffolk County     (The home county of Riverside)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverside, with the one closest to Riverside listed first.
    • Northampton
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Northampton is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northampton
    • Pine Valley
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Pine Valley is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Valley
    • Glenwood Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Glenwood Village is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood Village
    • Riverhead
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Flanders
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Calverton
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Foxwood Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Foxwood Village is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foxwood Village
    • Westhampton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Eastport
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Eastport is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastport
    • Aquebogue
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • East Quogue
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Quioque
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Quioque is located in Suffolk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quioque
  • Middlesex County (CT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverside, with the one closest to Riverside listed first.
    • Clinton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Grove Beach
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Grove Beach is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grove Beach
    • Clinton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Clinton is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,881 people
    • Westbrook
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Westbrook is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westbrook
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,842 people
    • Plum Bank Beach
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Plum Bank Beach is located in Middlesex County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Bank Beach
    • Westbrook
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • New Haven County (CT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Riverside, with the one closest to Riverside listed first.
    • Stony Creek
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Stony Creek is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek
    • East River
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • East River is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East River
    • Madison
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Pine Orchard
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Pine Orchard is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Orchard
    • Short Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Short Beach is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Short Beach
    • Branford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Branford is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 27,736 people
    • Branford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Guilford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • East Haven
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • East Haven
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • East Haven is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Haven
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28,454 people
    • Guilford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Guilford is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guilford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 22,043 people
    • Milford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Milford is located in New Haven County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 54,781 people

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

Cemeteries Near Riverside ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Riverside.

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 Riverside - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Riverhead Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Eastport Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Robinson & Gordon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Tuthill Burial Ground
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • East Quogue Methodist Church Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Aquebogue Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Wells Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Wines Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Jamesport Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Baiting Hollow Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Northville Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (169 more) ...
    • Sound Ave. Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Methodist Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Brookfield Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Riverhead
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Flanders
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Calverton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Eastport
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Eastport is located in Suffolk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastport
  • Speonk
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Westhampton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Quogue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • East Quogue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Aquebogue
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • East Moriches
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jamesport
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Baiting Hollow
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Riverside ...

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 139 newspapers that have been published in the area around Riverside.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Riverside, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Riverside.

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 Riverside:

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 Riverside, 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- Riverside) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.