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 Hearthstone (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 Hearthstone. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Hearthstone 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 Hearthstone. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hearthstone:
Montgomery County (The home county of Hearthstone)
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Riverside (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Oakwood (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Oakwood is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Population from the 2020 Census: 8,919 people
Dayton (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Dayton is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayton Population from the 2020 Census: 139,907 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dayton <1>
Riverdale (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Riverdale is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Kettering (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Hooks Corner (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Hooks Corner is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooks Corner Northridge (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Northridge is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northridge Gem City Estates (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Gem City Estates is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem City Estates Deerpark Village (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Deerpark Village is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerpark Village Moraine (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Fort McKinley (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Fort McKinley is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort McKinley Centerville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Frytown (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Frytown is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frytown Butler County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Poast Town Heights (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Poast Town Heights is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poast Town Heights Poast Town (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Poast Town is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poast Town Middletown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Astoria (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Astoria is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astoria South Middletown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
South Middletown is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Middletown Monroe (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Jacksonburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Jacksonburg is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonburg Population from the 2020 Census: 65 people
Miltonville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Miltonville is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miltonville Trenton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Kyles (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Kyles is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyles Bethany (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Bethany is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany Rockdale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Rockdale is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale Taylor Village (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Taylor Village is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Village Champaign County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Christiansburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Saint Paris (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Westville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Westville is located in Champaign County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westville Millerstown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Millerstown is located in Champaign County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millerstown Clark County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Crystal Lakes (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Crystal Lakes is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lakes Holiday Valley (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Holiday Valley is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Valley Park Layne (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Park Layne is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Layne Enon (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Green Meadows (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Green Meadows is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows New Carlisle (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Donnelsville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Donnelsville is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnelsville Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
Limestone City (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Limestone City is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone City Dodo (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Dodo is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodo Green Hedges (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Green Hedges is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hedges North Hampton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
North Hampton is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hampton Population from the 2020 Census: 463 people
Shawnee Acres (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Shawnee Acres is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawnee Acres Kenwood Heights (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Kenwood Heights is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenwood Heights Clinton County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
New Burlington (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
New Burlington is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Burlington North Kingman (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
North Kingman is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Kingman Port William (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Port William is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port William Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
Clarksville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Wilmington (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Clinton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Clinton is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinton Darke County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Gordon (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Gordon is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gordon Population from the 2020 Census: 207 people
Pitsburg (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Ithaca (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Ithaca is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ithaca Population from the 2020 Census: 129 people
Arcanum (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Castine (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Castine is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castine Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
Fayette County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Octa (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Octa is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Octa Population from the 2020 Census: 59 people
Milledgeville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Milledgeville is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milledgeville Population from the 2020 Census: 108 people
Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Beavercreek (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Fairborn (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Trebein (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Trebein is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trebein Trebein has also been known as:
Beaver Station Beaver Frost Station Pickeneyville Pinckneyvile Bellbrook (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Pinewood Village (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Pinewood Village is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Village Xenia (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Spring Valley (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Roxanna (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Roxanna is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxanna Wilberforce (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Yellow Springs (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Clifton (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Cedarville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
New Jasper (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
New Jasper is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Jasper Madison County
South Solon (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
South Solon is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Solon Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
Miami County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Ginghamsburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Ginghamsburg is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ginghamsburg Tipp City (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Garland (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Garland is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland Kessler (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Kessler is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kessler West Milton (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Alcony (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Alcony is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alcony Ludlow Falls (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Ludlow Falls is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ludlow Falls Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
Casstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Troy (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Potsdam (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Potsdam is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potsdam Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Laura (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Pleasant Hill (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Conover (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Conover is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conover Preble County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Ingomar (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Ingomar is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingomar Verona (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Gratis (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
West Alexandria (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Euphemia (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Euphemia is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euphemia Lewisburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
West Elkton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
Eaton (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
West Manchester (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Camden (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Lake Lakengren (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Lake Lakengren is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lakengren Eldorado (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Eldorado is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldorado Population from the 2020 Census: 490 people
New Hope (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
New Hope is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Shelby County
Riverside (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Riverside is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Warren County
The following are listed by their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Five Points (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Five Points is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points Kenricksville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Kenricksville is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenricksville Springboro (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Waynesville (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Corwin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Franklin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Harveysburg (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
Harveysburg is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harveysburg Population from the 2020 Census: 569 people
Red Lion (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Red Lion is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion Hunter (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Hunter is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Greentree Corners (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Greentree Corners is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greentree Corners Lebanon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Hageman (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Hageman is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hageman Shadow Lake Village (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Shadow Lake Village is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadow Lake Village Williams County
Franklin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Franklin is located in Williams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hearthstone, see our County-by-County Page for Hearthstone .
Cemeteries Near Hearthstone ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hearthstone.
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 Hearthstone - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hearthstone covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Kemp Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Hawker Church Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Aley Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Gerlaugh Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Harshman Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
Woodland Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Jewish Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
University of Dayton Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Riverview Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Beth Abraham Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Calvary Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvary Cemetery The Calvary Cemetery has also been known as:
Calvary Catholic Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #40161 <2>
Beavertown Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beavertown Cemetery The Beavertown Cemetery has also been known as:
Beulah Cemetery Ewry Cemetery Stutsman Cemetery Continue List (529 more) ...
Morgan Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Haverstick Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haverstick Cemetery The Haverstick Cemetery has also been known as:
Harshman Cemetery Koogler Cemetery Zimmerman Cemetery David Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Hearthstone in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Hearthstone.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Hearthstone, with the one closest to Hearthstone listed first.
Dayton (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Dayton is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayton Population from the 2020 Census: 139,907 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dayton <1>
Zimmerman (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Zimmerman is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zimmerman Alpha (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Alpha is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha West Carrollton (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Centerville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Stillwater Junction (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
Stillwater Junction is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater Junction Whitfield (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Whitfield is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitfield Bellbrook (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Trebein (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Trebein is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trebein Trebein has also been known as:
Beaver Station Beaver Frost Station Pickeneyville Pinckneyvile Byron (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Byron is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byron Sulphur Grove (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Sulphur Grove is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Grove Spanker (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Spanker is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanker Continue List (15 more) ...
Ellerton (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Ellerton is also located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellerton Miamisburg (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Vandalia (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hearthstone. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hearthstone .
Newspapers Published in Hearthstone ...
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 86 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hearthstone.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hearthstone, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Hearthstone.
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 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 Hearthstone:
Websites specific to Ohio Pages specific to Montgomery County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Butler County Champaign County Clark County Clinton County Darke County Fayette County Greene County Madison County Miami County Preble County Shelby County Warren County Williams County Cemetery Information and Directories for Ohio Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Hearthstone. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Montgomery County: https://www.mcohio.org/
The official website for State of Ohio: https://ohio.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Hearthstone, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hearthstone) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.