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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Plumbs Cross Roads. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Plumbs Cross Roads to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Plumbs Cross Roads, 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 Plumbs Cross Roads (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 Plumbs Cross Roads. 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 Plumbs Cross Roads ...
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 Plumbs Cross Roads: Plumbs Xrds.
- While the name of this community is Plumbs Cross Roads, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Plumbs Cross Roads may originally have been Plumb's Cross Roads.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Plumbs Cross Roads might be written as Plumb Cross Roads.
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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Plumbs Cross Roads is historic, it would have been located within present day Paulding 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 Paulding County: Allen (IN), Defiance, Putnam & Van Wert.
Below are the counties that are near Plumbs Cross Roads. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Plumbs Cross Roads:
- Paulding County (The home county of Plumbs Cross Roads)
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Mandale
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Mandale is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandale
- Murat ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Murat is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murat
- Former names for Murat:
- Hipp's Lock
- Timberville
- Grover Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Grover Hill is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grover Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 377 people
- Melrose
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Melrose is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
- Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
- Oakwood
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Oakwood is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
- Saint Andrews ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Saint Andrews is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Andrews
- Fort Brown
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Fort Brown is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Brown
- Charloe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Charloe is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charloe
- Hedges
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hedges is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedges
- Broughton
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Broughton is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broughton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 115 people
- Haviland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Haviland is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haviland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 202 people
- Dague ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Dague is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dague
- Allen County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Delphos
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Landeck
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Landeck is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landeck
- Scotts Crossing
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Scotts Crossing is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotts Crossing
- Gomer
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Southworth
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Southworth is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southworth
- Elida
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Elida is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elida
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,810 people
- Conant
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Conant is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conant
- Spencerville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Cairo
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cairo is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cairo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
- West Cairo
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- West Cairo is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Cairo
- Lima
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Beaverdam
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Auglaize County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Buckland
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Buckland is located in Auglaize County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 221 people
- Cridersville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Defiance County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Ayersville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Ayersville is located in Defiance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ayersville
- Defiance
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Williamstown
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Williamstown is located in Defiance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamstown
- Brunersburg
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Brunersburg is located in Defiance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brunersburg
- Sherwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jewell
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Jewell is located in Defiance County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewell
- Ney
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Hicksville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Hancock County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Moffitt ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Moffitt is located in Hancock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moffitt
- Hancock
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Hancock is located in Hancock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Mount Cory
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Mount Cory is located in Hancock County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Cory
- Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
- Henry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Pleasant Bend
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Bend is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Bend
- New Bavaria
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- New Bavaria is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bavaria
- Population from the 2020 Census: 93 people
- Holgate
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Florida
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Florida is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florida
- Population from the 2020 Census: 213 people
- Hamler
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Okolona
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Okolona is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Okolona
- Okolona has also been known as:
- Okalona
- Elery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Elery is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elery
- Deshler
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Malinta
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Napoleon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ridgeville Corners
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Ridgeville Corners is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgeville Corners
- Grelton
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Grelton is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grelton
- Mercer County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Mendon
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Rockford
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Mercer
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Mercer is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercer
- Tama
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Tama is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tama
- Earley ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Earley is located in Mercer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earley
- Putnam County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Cloverdale
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Cloverdale is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
- Dupont
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Muntanna
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Muntanna is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muntanna
- Ottoville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Hartsburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hartsburg is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsburg
- Continental
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Jennings
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Kalida
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Kieferville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Kieferville is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kieferville
- Rimer
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Rimer is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rimer
- Jones City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jones City is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jones City
- Miller City
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Van Wert County
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Hoaglin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hoaglin is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoaglin
- Middle Point
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Scott
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Van Wert
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Venedocia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Venedocia is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venedocia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 118 people
- Convoy
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Converse
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Converse is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Converse
- Elgin
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Elgin is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 55 people
- Converse Station
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Converse Station is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Converse Station
- Ohio City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Monticello
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Monticello is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monticello
- Dixon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Dixon is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon
- Adams County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Pleasant Mills
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Decatur
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Allen County (IN)
- The following are listed by their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Dixon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Dixon is located in Allen County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixon
- Edgerton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Edgerton is located in Allen County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgerton
- Monroeville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Woodburn
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Zulu
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Zulu is located in Allen County (IN)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zulu
- Harlan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Plumbs Cross Roads, see our County-by-County Page for Plumbs Cross Roads.
Cemeteries Near Plumbs Cross Roads ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Plumbs Cross Roads.
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 Plumbs Cross Roads - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Plumbs Cross Roads covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Fought Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Young Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Dotson Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Boutwell Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Carlton Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Mellinger Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Auglaize Chapel Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auglaize Chapel Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Auglaize Chapel Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Melrose and Mandale. The cemetery lies 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the northwest of Mandale.
- Middle Creek Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Wilson Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Antioch Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hertel Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Middle Creek Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Continue List (388 more) ...
- New Bethany Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Fairview Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 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.
Plumbs Cross Roads itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Plumbs Cross Roads, with the one closest to Plumbs Cross Roads listed first.
- Wetsel
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Wetsel is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wetsel
- Huntstown ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Huntstown is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntstown
- Grover Hill
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Grover Hill is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grover Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 377 people
- Melrose
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Melrose is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melrose
- Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
- Ottoville
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Muntanna
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Muntanna is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muntanna
- Cascade
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Cascade is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cascade
- Dupont
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Hoaglin
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hoaglin is located in Van Wert County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoaglin
- Douglas
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Douglas is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Douglas
- Goodwin ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Goodwin is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwin
- Hartsburg
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Hartsburg is located in Putnam County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartsburg
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Charloe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Charloe is located in Paulding County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charloe
- Fort Jennings
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Continental
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Plumbs Cross Roads. See our List of 1890's Communities around Plumbs Cross Roads.
Newspapers Published in Plumbs Cross Roads ...
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 Plumbs Cross Roads.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Plumbs Cross Roads, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Plumbs Cross Roads.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Plumbs Cross Roads:
- Websites specific to Ohio
- Pages specific to Paulding County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Allen County
- Auglaize County
- Defiance County
- Hancock County
- Henry County
- Mercer County
- Putnam County
- Van Wert County
- Adams County
- Allen 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 Plumbs Cross Roads, 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> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Melrose and Mandale. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <5> | 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 from Point A (ie- Plumbs Cross Roads) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |