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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 Sparta (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 Sparta. 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.

Cemeteries Near Sparta ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sparta.

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

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

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

  • Sparta Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Dale Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • St. Augustines Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Gethsemane Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Gate of Heaven Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • All Souls Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Banks Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Methodist Episcopal Church Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Palmer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (494 more) ...

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

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

  • Scarborough
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Upper Nyack
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Upper Nyack is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Nyack
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,177 people
  • Pocantico Hills
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasantville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Rockland Lake
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Rockland Lake is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland Lake
  • Nyack
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Nyack is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nyack
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,133 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nyack <3>
  • Tarrytown
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Sleepy Hollow
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Croton-on-Hudson
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Eastview
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Eastview is located in Westchester County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastview
  • Congers
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Valley Cottage
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Valley Cottage is located in Rockland County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Cottage
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • South Nyack
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • South Nyack is located in Rockland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Nyack
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,305 people
    • Chappaqua
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Germonds
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Germonds is located in Rockland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Germonds

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

Newspapers Published in Sparta ...

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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sparta.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sparta, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sparta.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Sparta:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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 Sparta, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Sparta) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.