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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 Scotts Corners (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 Scotts Corners. 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.

Name Variations for Scotts Corners ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Scotts Corners: Scotts Cors.
  • While the name of this community is Scotts Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Scotts Corners may originally have been Scott's Corners.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Scotts Corners might be written as Scott Corners.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Scotts Corners. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Scotts Corners.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Cemeteries Near Scotts Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Scotts Corners.

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 Scotts Corners - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Sellecks Corner Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • High Ridge Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Pound Ridge Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pound Ridge Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pound Ridge Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Pound Ridge.
    • The Pound Ridge Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Burial Hill Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1976569 <3>
  • Round Ridge Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Sarles Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Waterbury Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Garden Center Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Canfield Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Hoyt Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Becks Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Brown Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
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    • Chichester Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Miller Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Ayers Cemetery
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)

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.<4>

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

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

  • High Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • High Ridge is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Ridge
  • Pound Ridge
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Vista
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Long Ridge
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Long Ridge is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Ridge
  • North Stamford
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • North Stamford is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Stamford
  • Lewisboro
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • New Canaan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • North Wilton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • North Wilton is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Wilton
  • Bedford
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Boutonville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Boutonville is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boutonville
  • Banksville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Banksville is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banksville
  • Stanwich
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Stanwich is located in Fairfield County (CT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanwich
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • South Salem
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • South Salem is located in Westchester County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Salem
    • Talmadge Hill
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Talmadge Hill is located in Fairfield County (CT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmadge Hill
    • Wilton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Scotts Corners ...

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 150 newspapers that have been published in the area around Scotts Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Scotts Corners, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Scotts Corners.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Scotts Corners:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>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- Scotts Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Scotts Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.