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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 Airhill (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 Airhill. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Airhill is located in Montgomery County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Montgomery County: Butler, Clark, Darke, Greene, Miami, Preble & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Airhill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Airhill.

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

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

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

  • Arnold Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • McNelly Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Hay Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Kreider Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Landis Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Cedar Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Frantz Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Swank Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Happy Corner Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Clayton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Worman Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (505 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Airhill had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Amity
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Amity is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity
  • Brookville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Trotwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Clayton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Clayton is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clayton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,233 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clayton <1>
  • Taylorsburg
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Taylorsburg is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylorsburg
  • Kinsey
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Kinsey is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinsey
  • Dodson
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Dodson is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson
  • Johnsville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Johnsville is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsville
  • New Lebanon
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Stillwater Junction
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bachman
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Bachman is located in Montgomery County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bachman
  • Pyrmont
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • Spanker
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Spanker is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanker
    • Little York
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Little York is located in Montgomery County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little York
    • Union
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Airhill ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Airhill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Airhill, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Airhill.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Airhill:

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 Airhill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Airhill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.