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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 Bucyrus (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 Bucyrus. 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 hospitals 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.

Bucyrus is located in Crawford County and is the County Seat.

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 Crawford County: Huron, Marion, Morrow, Richland, Seneca & Wyandot.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Bucyrus ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bucyrus.

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

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

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

  • Oakwood Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Tiffin Road Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Holy Trinity Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Friends Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Stewart Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • County Home Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Mt. Zion Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Monnett Chapel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Stoltz Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Sixteen Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Salem Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Liberty Chapel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (521 more) ...
    • Rupp Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Coulter Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Remer Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)

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 Bucyrus had a population of 5,974 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Bucyrus had a population of 11,738 people.

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

  • Glenville ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Glenville is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenville
  • Brandywine
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Brandywine is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandywine
  • Spore
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Spore is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spore
  • New Winchester
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • New Winchester is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Winchester
  • North Robinson
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • North Robinson is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Robinson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 198 people
  • Sulphur Springs
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Sulphur Springs is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Springs
  • Oceola
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Broken Sword
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Kirkpatrick
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Kirkpatrick is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkpatrick
  • Biddle ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Biddle is located in Crawford County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biddle
  • Lemert
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Nevada
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Bucyrus ...

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 129 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bucyrus.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Bucyrus. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Bucyrus and those printed in the larger area surrounding Bucyrus.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3> of Bucyrus.

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 Bucyrus:

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 Bucyrus, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bucyrus) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.