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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 Gilboa (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 Gilboa. 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.

Gilboa is located in Putnam 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 Putnam County: Allen, Defiance, Hancock, Henry, Paulding, Van Wert & Wood.

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

  • Putnam County     (The home county of Gilboa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gilboa, with the one closest to Gilboa listed first.
    • Pandora
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Pandora is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pandora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,101 people
    • Townwood
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Leipsic Junction
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Leipsic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Ottawa
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • West Leipsic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Glandorf
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Belmore
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Belmore is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 143 people
    • Columbus Grove
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Miller City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Kalida
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Kieferville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Jones City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jones City is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
  • Allen County
  • Auglaize County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gilboa, with the one closest to Gilboa listed first.
    • Cridersville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Waynesfield
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Uniopolis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Defiance County
  • Hancock County
  • Hardin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gilboa, with the one closest to Gilboa listed first.
    • Ada
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Ada is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ada
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,532 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ada <1>
    • Dola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Alger
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Dunkirk
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Huntersville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Huntersville is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntersville
    • McGuffey
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • McGuffey is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGuffey
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 484 people
    • Forest
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • McVitty
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Patterson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Patterson is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
    • Grant
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jumbo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Kenton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Henry County
  • Paulding County
  • Seneca County
  • Van Wert County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gilboa, with the one closest to Gilboa listed first.
    • Middle Point
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Hoaglin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Wood County
  • Wyandot County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gilboa, with the one closest to Gilboa listed first.
    • Wharton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Wharton is located in Wyandot County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wharton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 338 people
    • Carey
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Kirby
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Gilboa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gilboa.

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

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

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

  • Crawfis Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Cholera Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Harmon Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Maidlow Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Riley Creek Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Johime - Mennonite Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Blanchard Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Hilty Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pandora Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Clymer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Sugar Ridge Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (404 more) ...
    • Knepper Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • St. Marys Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Dukes Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)

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 Gilboa had a population of 264 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Gilboa had a population of 173 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Gilboa ...

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 92 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gilboa.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Gilboa. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Gilboa and those printed in the larger area surrounding Gilboa.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3> of Gilboa.

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 Gilboa:

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 Gilboa, 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' (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- Gilboa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.