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 Monday Creek Junction (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 Monday Creek Junction. 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 Monday Creek Junction ...
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 have occurred.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Monday Creek Junction: Monday Crk. Jct. (or less commonly used: Monday Ck. Jct. or Monday Cr. Jct.)
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 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.
Below are the counties that are near Monday Creek Junction. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Monday Creek Junction:
Hocking County (The home county of Monday Creek Junction)
The following are listed by their distance from Monday Creek Junction, with the one closest to Monday Creek Junction listed first.
Sand Run Junction (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sand Run Junction. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Orbiston. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Liars Corner ‑ Historic (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Liars Corner. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Reservoir ‑ Historic (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Reservoir. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Atherton ‑ Historic (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Atherton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Little Claylick ‑ Historic (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Little Claylick. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Point Rock. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Elliott Crossroads. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Westland. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Eagleport. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Darlington. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for McDonald. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Museville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ludington. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Moonville ‑ Historic (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Moonville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Vales Mills. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
The following are listed by their distance from Monday Creek Junction, with the one closest to Monday Creek Junction listed first.
Luke Chute (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Luke Chute. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Wolf Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Monday Creek Junction.
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.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Straitsville Joint Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
St. Augustine Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Augustine Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Otterbein Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Danison - Nixon Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Danison - Nixon Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
Fellowship United Methodist Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Rhodes & Huddle Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
To give a relative sense of its location, the Rhodes & Huddle Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the southwest of Logan.
The Rhodes & Huddle Cemetery has also been known as:
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.<6>
While we didn't find Monday Creek Junction in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Monday Creek Junction.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Monday Creek Junction, with the one closest to Monday Creek Junction listed first.
Gore (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gore have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sand Run Junction. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
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 83 newspapers that have been published in the area around Monday Creek Junction.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Monday Creek Junction, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Monday Creek Junction.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Monday Creek Junction:
An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
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The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
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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- Monday Creek Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Monday Creek Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5820, Longitude: -82.2751 In this case, the coordinates for Monday Creek Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
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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.
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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 Monday Creek Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.