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 Spears Corners (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 Spears Corners. 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 Spears Corners ...
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 Spears Corners: Spears Cors.
- While the name of this community is Spears Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Spears Corners may originally have been Spear's Corners.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Spears Corners might be written as Spear Corners.
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 southwest 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 south.
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 south 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.
Spears Corners is located in Erie 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 Erie County: Huron, Lorain, Ottawa & Sandusky.
Below are the counties that are near Spears Corners. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Spears Corners:
- Erie County (The home county of Spears Corners)
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Avery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Avery is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avery
- North Milan
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- North Milan is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Milan
- Milan
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bogart
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Bogart is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogart
- Shinrock
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Shinrock is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shinrock
- Huron
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Berlinville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Berlinville is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlinville
- Fairview Lanes
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Fairview Lanes is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview Lanes
- Berlin Heights
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Sandusky
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Florence
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Florence is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florence
- Castalia
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ashland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Ruggles
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Ruggles is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruggles
- Nova
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Savannah
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bailey Lakes
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bailey Lakes is located in Ashland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Lakes
- Population from the 2020 Census: 364 people
- Champaign County
- Rochester
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Rochester is located in Champaign County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rochester
- Crawford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- North Auburn
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- North Auburn is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Auburn
- New Washington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Tiro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Huron County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Norwalk
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Monroeville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Collins
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Collins is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
- East Townsend
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- East Townsend is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Townsend
- Hartland Station
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Hartland Station is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland Station
- Hunts Corners
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Hunts Corners is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunts Corners
- Hunts Corners has also been known as:
- Moorehead
- Peru
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Peru is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Hartland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Hartland is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
- Wakeman
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Olena
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Olena is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olena
- West Clarksfield
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- West Clarksfield is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Clarksfield
- North Fairfield
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- North Fairfield is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fairfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 531 people
- Lorain County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Vermilion
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Henrietta
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Henrietta is located in Lorain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henrietta
- Vermilion-on-the-Lake
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Brownhelm Station
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Brownhelm Station is located in Lorain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownhelm Station
- Kipton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Kipton is located in Lorain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kipton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 233 people
- South Amherst
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- South Amherst is located in Lorain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Amherst
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,663 people
- Brighton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Brighton is located in Lorain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brighton
- Amherst
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Oberlin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Rochester
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Rochester is located in Lorain County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rochester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
- Wellington
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Lorain
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Medina County
- Spencer
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ottawa County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Marblehead
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Danbury
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Danbury is located in Ottawa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danbury
- Violet ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Violet is located in Ottawa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Violet
- Gypsum
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Catawba Island
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Catawba Island is located in Ottawa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catawba Island
- Port Clinton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Put-in-Bay
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Lacarne
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lacarne is located in Ottawa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacarne
- Isle Saint George
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Isle Saint George is located in Ottawa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle Saint George
- Oak Harbor
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Richland County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Plymouth
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Plymouth is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,789 people
- Shiloh
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Forest ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Forest is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
- Ganges
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Ganges is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ganges
- Shenandoah
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Shenandoah is located in Richland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shenandoah
- Shelby
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Sandusky County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Bellevue
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Teemes ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Teemes is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teemes
- Vickery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Vickery is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vickery
- Clyde
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Erlin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Erlin is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erlin
- Green Creek
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Green Creek is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Creek
- Shorewood Village
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Shorewood Village is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shorewood Village
- Fremont
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Ballville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Ballville is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ballville
- Kingsway
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Kingsway is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsway
- Stony Prairie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Stony Prairie is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Prairie
- Gabels Corner
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Gabels Corner is located in Sandusky County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gabels Corner
- Seneca County
- The following are listed by their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Flat Rock
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Flat Rock is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Rock
- Omar
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Omar is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omar
- West Lodi
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- West Lodi is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Lodi
- Attica Junction
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Attica Junction is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Attica Junction
- Green Springs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Attica
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Caroline
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Caroline is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caroline
- Scipio
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Scipio is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scipio
- Republic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Watson
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Watson is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watson
- Watson has also been known as:
- Watson Station
- Watsons Station
- Carrothers
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Carrothers is located in Seneca County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrothers
- Bloomville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Spears Corners, see our County-by-County Page for Spears Corners.
Cemeteries Near Spears Corners ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Spears Corners.
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 Spears Corners - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Spears Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- St. Johns Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Milan North Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Sweet Family Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Scotts Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Oxford Lutheran Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Milan Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Meadow Green Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Green Cemetery
- The Meadow Green Cemetery has also been known as:
- Meadow Green Memorial Park
- Restlawn Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #42881 <3>
- Ruggles Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Perkins Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Jacobsburg Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Bogart Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- O'Dell Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (314 more) ...
- St. Mary Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Mary Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mary Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Norwalk.
- The St. Mary Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Mary Catholic Cemetery
- St. Mary's Cemetery
- East Norwalk Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Berlinville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Spears Corners in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Spears Corners.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Spears Corners, with the one closest to Spears Corners listed first.
- Avery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Avery is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avery
- Milan
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Kimball
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Kimball is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimball
- Bogart
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Bogart is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogart
- Prout ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Prout is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prout
- East Norwalk
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- East Norwalk is located in Huron County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Norwalk
- Shinrock
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Shinrock is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shinrock
- Huron
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Bloomingville
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Bloomingville is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomingville
- North Monroeville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- North Monroeville is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Monroeville
- Norwalk
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Berlinville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Berlinville is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlinville
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Monroeville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Berlin Heights
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Ceylon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Ceylon is located in Erie County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceylon
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Spears Corners. See our List of 1890's Communities around Spears Corners.
Newspapers Published in Spears Corners ...
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 67 newspapers that have been published in the area around Spears Corners.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Spears Corners, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Spears Corners.
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 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 Spears Corners:
- Websites specific to Ohio
- Pages specific to Erie County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Ashland County
- Champaign County
- Crawford County
- Huron County
- Lorain County
- Medina County
- Ottawa County
- Richland County
- Sandusky County
- Seneca County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Ohio
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Spears Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Spears Corners) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |