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 Walnut Hills (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 Walnut Hills. 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 hospitals 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.
Walnut Hills 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 Walnut Hills. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Walnut Hills:
Montgomery County (The home county of Walnut Hills)
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Dayton (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Oakwood (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Oakwood is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Population from the 2020 Census: 8,919 people
Riverdale (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Riverdale is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Riverside (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Kettering (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Gem City Estates (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Gem City Estates is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem City Estates Northridge (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Northridge is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northridge Moraine (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Hooks Corner (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Hooks Corner is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooks Corner Deerpark Village (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Deerpark Village is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerpark Village Fort McKinley (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Fort McKinley is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort McKinley Shiloh (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Shiloh is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh Stillwater Junction (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Stillwater Junction is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater Junction Butler County
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Poast Town Heights (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Poast Town Heights is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poast Town Heights Poast Town (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Poast Town is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poast Town Astoria (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Astoria is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Astoria Middletown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Jacksonburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Jacksonburg is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacksonburg Population from the 2020 Census: 65 people
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 Miltonville (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Miltonville is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miltonville Monroe (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Trenton (23 miles [37 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 Rockdale (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Rockdale is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale Taylor Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Taylor Village is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Village Bethany (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Bethany is located in Butler County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethany Champaign County
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Christiansburg (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Saint Paris (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Westville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Westville is located in Champaign County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westville Clark County
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
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 Crystal Lakes (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Crystal Lakes is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Lakes Holiday Valley (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Holiday Valley is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holiday Valley Enon (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Green Meadows (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Green Meadows is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Meadows New Carlisle (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
Donnelsville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Donnelsville is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnelsville Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
Dodo (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Dodo is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodo Limestone City (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Limestone City is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone City Green Hedges (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Green Hedges is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Hedges North Hampton (20 miles [32.2 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 (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Shawnee Acres is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawnee Acres Dialton (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Dialton is located in Clark County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dialton Clinton County
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
New Burlington (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
New Burlington is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Burlington North Kingman (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
North Kingman is located in Clinton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Kingman Port William (24 miles [38.6 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 (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Wilmington (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Clinton (29 miles [46.7 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 Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Gordon (22 miles [35.4 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 (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Ithaca (24 miles [38.6 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 (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Castine (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Castine is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castine Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
Abbottsville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Abbottsville is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbottsville Gettysburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Gettysburg is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gettysburg Population from the 2020 Census: 809 people
Poplar Ridge (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Poplar Ridge is located in Darke County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar Ridge Fayette County
Octa (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Octa is located in Fayette County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Octa Population from the 2020 Census: 59 people
Greene County
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Beavercreek (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Fairborn (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Bellbrook (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Trebein (10 miles [16.1 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 Pinewood Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Pinewood Village is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Village Spring Valley (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Xenia (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Roxanna (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Roxanna is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxanna Wilberforce (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Yellow Springs (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Clifton (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Cedarville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
New Jasper (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
New Jasper is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Jasper Madison County
South Solon (29 miles [46.7 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 Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Ginghamsburg (12 miles [19.3 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 (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Garland is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland Kessler (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Kessler is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kessler West Milton (17 miles [27.4 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 (19 miles [30.6 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
Potsdam (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Potsdam is located in Miami County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potsdam Population from the 2020 Census: 295 people
Troy (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Casstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Laura (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Pleasant Hill (23 miles [37 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 Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Ingomar (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Ingomar is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingomar West Alexandria (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Verona (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Gratis (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Lewisburg (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Euphemia (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Euphemia is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Euphemia West Elkton (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Eaton (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
West Manchester (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Camden (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Lake Lakengren (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Lake Lakengren is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lakengren Eldorado (29 miles [46.7 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 (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
New Hope is located in Preble County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope Shelby County
Riverside (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Riverside is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Warren County
The following are listed by their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills 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)
Franklin (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Corwin (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Waynesville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Hunter (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Hunter is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Red Lion (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Red Lion is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lion Harveysburg (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Harveysburg is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harveysburg Population from the 2020 Census: 569 people
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)
Shadow Lake Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Shadow Lake Village is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadow Lake Village Hageman (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Hageman is located in Warren County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hageman Williams County
Franklin (14 miles [22.5 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 Walnut Hills, see our County-by-County Page for Walnut Hills .
Cemeteries Near Walnut Hills ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Walnut Hills.
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 Walnut Hills - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Walnut Hills covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Jewish Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Woodland Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
University of Dayton Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Beth Abraham Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Riverview Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Old Greencastle Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Calvary Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
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>
Kemp Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
New Greencastle Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Greencastle Cemetery The New Greencastle Cemetery has also been known as:
Green Castle Cemetery Greencastle Cemetery Harrison Twp. Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #41160 <2>
Beavertown Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beavertown Cemetery The Beavertown Cemetery has also been known as:
Beulah Cemetery Ewry Cemetery Stutsman Cemetery Harshman Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Cooks Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Continue List (526 more) ...
Westmont Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Willow View Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Zion 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 Walnut Hills in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Walnut Hills.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Walnut Hills, with the one closest to Walnut Hills listed first.
Dayton (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Zimmerman (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Zimmerman is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zimmerman Stillwater Junction (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Stillwater Junction is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater Junction West Carrollton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Whitfield (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Whitfield is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitfield Alpha (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Alpha is located in Greene County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha Liberty (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Liberty is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Ellerton (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Ellerton is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellerton Centerville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Spanker (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Spanker is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanker Sulphur Grove (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Sulphur Grove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Grove Trotwood (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Continue List (22 more) ...
Vandalia (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Miamisburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Bellbrook (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Walnut Hills. See our List of 1890's Communities around Walnut Hills .
Newspapers Published in Walnut Hills ...
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 Walnut Hills.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Walnut Hills, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Walnut Hills.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Walnut Hills:
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 Walnut Hills. 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 Walnut Hills, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Walnut Hills) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.