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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Barnes Corners. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Barnes Corners to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Barnes Corners, please Contact Us.
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 Barnes 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 Barnes 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 Barnes 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 Barnes Corners: Barnes Cors.
- While the name of this community is Barnes Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Barnes Corners may originally have been Barne's Corners.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Barnes Corners might be written as Barne Corners.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Barnes Corners. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Barnes 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.
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 and hospitals 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Barnes Corners is historic, it would have been located within present day Ashtabula 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 Ashtabula County: Geauga, Lake, Trumbull, Crawford (PA) & Erie (PA).
Below are the counties that are near Barnes Corners. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Barnes Corners:
- Ashtabula County (The home county of Barnes Corners)
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- East Trumbull
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- East Trumbull is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Trumbull
- Rock Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Trumbull
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Trumbull is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trumbull
- Eagleville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Eagleville is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleville
- Harpersfield
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Harpersfield is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harpersfield
- Mechanicsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Mechanicsville is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsville
- Roaming Shores
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Roaming Shores is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roaming Shores
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,443 people
- Rome
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Rome is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome
- Hartsgrove
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Hartsgrove is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsgrove
- Rays Corners
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Rays Corners is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rays Corners
- Austinburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Chapel
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Chapel is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapel
- Cuyahoga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Gates Mills
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Mayfield
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Hunting Valley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hunting Valley is located in Cuyahoga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunting Valley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 717 people
- Chagrin Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mayfield Heights
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Geauga County
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Thompson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Montville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Montville is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montville
- Huntsburg
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Huntsburg is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntsburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,641 people
- East Claridon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- East Claridon is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Claridon
- West Bass Lake
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- West Bass Lake is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Bass Lake
- Aquilla
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Aquilla is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aquilla
- Population from the 2020 Census: 335 people
- Chardon
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Middlefield
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Burton
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Parkman
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Welshfield
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Welshfield is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welshfield
- Chesterland
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lake County
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Madison
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- North Madison
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- North Madison is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Madison
- North Perry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- North Perry is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Perry
- Population from the 2020 Census: 885 people
- Perry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Painesville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Fairport Harbor
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Grand River
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Kirtland Hills
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Kirtland Hills is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirtland Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 645 people
- Kirtland
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Mentor
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Mentor-on-the-Lake
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Pecks Corners
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Pecks Corners is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecks Corners
- Portage County
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Garrettsville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Hiram
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Mahoning
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Mahoning is located in Portage County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mahoning
- Trumbull County
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Mesopotamia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Greene
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Greene is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greene
- Farmington
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Farmington is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmington
- Gustavus
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Gustavus is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gustavus
- Bristolville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- West Farmington
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Barclay
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Barclay is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barclay
- Mecca
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Mecca is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecca
- Wassie ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Wassie is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wassie
- Wildare
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Wildare is located in Trumbull County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildare
- Kinsman
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Cortland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Crawford County (PA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Espyville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Pymatuning Central
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Pymatuning Central is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pymatuning Central
- Pymatuning North
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Pymatuning North is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pymatuning North
- Westford
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Westford is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westford
- Linesville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Pymatuning South
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Pymatuning South is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pymatuning South
- Turner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Turner is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turner
- Turnersville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Turnersville is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turnersville
- Conneautville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Dicksonburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Dicksonburg is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dicksonburg
- Hartstown
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Hartstown is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartstown
- Springboro Station
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Springboro Station is located in Crawford County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springboro Station
- Erie County (PA)
- The following are listed by their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- Tracy
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Tracy is located in Erie County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tracy
- Cherry Hill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Cherry Hill is located in Erie County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill
- Pennside
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pennside is located in Erie County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennside
- Keepville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Keepville is located in Erie County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keepville
- Mercer County (PA)
- Jamestown
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- York County (PA)
- Adamsville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Adamsville is located in York County (PA)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamsville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Barnes Corners, see our County-by-County Page for Barnes Corners.
Cemeteries Near Barnes Corners ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Barnes 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 Barnes Corners - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Barnes Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- East Trumbull Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Mechanicsville - Windsor Road Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Morgan Union Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan Union Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Morgan Union Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Rock Creek.
- The Morgan Union Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Rock Creek Center Cemetery
- Union Cemetery
- Trumbull Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trumbull Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Trumbull Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Trumbull.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #43784 <4>
- Footville Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Morgan Twp. Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morgan Twp. Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Morgan Twp. Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<5> to the southwest of Jefferson.
- Crosby Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- North Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- South River Road Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Cork Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Hartsgrove Twp. Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Rome Center Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (268 more) ...
- Harpersfield Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Northeast Rome Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Center Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Cemetery
- The Center Cemetery has also been known as:
- Austinburg Center Cemetery
- Cowles Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39721 <4>
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.
While we didn't find Barnes Corners in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Barnes Corners.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Barnes Corners, with the one closest to Barnes Corners listed first.
- East Trumbull
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- East Trumbull is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Trumbull
- Rock Creek
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Trumbull
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Trumbull is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trumbull
- Footville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Footville is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Footville
- Eagleville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Eagleville is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleville
- Cork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Cork is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cork
- Calm ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Calm is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calm
- Hartsgrove
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Hartsgrove is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsgrove
- Harpersfield
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Harpersfield is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harpersfield
- Rome
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Rome is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rome
- Mechanicsville
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Mechanicsville is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanicsville
- New Lyme Station
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- New Lyme Station is located in Ashtabula County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lyme Station
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- South Thompson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- South Thompson is located in Geauga County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Thompson
- Austinburg
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Wheeler ‑ Historic
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Wheeler is located in Lake County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheeler
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Barnes Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Barnes Corners.
Newspapers Published in Barnes 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 66 newspapers that have been published in the area around Barnes Corners.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Barnes Corners, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Barnes Corners.
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 Barnes Corners:
- Websites specific to Ohio
- Pages specific to Ashtabula County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cuyahoga County
- Geauga County
- Lake County
- Portage County
- Trumbull County
- Crawford County
- Erie County
- Mercer County
- York County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ohio
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Barnes Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | 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). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Barnes Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |