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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 Abrams (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 Abrams. 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 and 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.

Abrams is located in Lane County.

To see how the shape of Oregon's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lane County: Benton, Deschutes, Douglas, Klamath, Lincoln & Linn.

Below are the counties that are near Abrams. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Abrams:

  • Lane County     (The home county of Abrams)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Abrams, with the one closest to Abrams listed first.
    • Culp Creek
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Dorena ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Wildwood
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Wildwood is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
    • Cottage Grove
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Divide ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Divide is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
    • Saginaw
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Walker
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Walker is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
    • Cresswell
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Creswell
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Dexter
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Lorane
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Lowell
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Abrams, with the one closest to Abrams listed first.
    • Curtin
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Elkhead
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Elkhead is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
    • Yoncalla
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Drain
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Drain is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drain
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,201 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Drain <1>
    • Rice Hill
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Fair Oaks
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Fair Oaks is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Oaks
    • Isadore
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Isadore is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isadore
    • Oakland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Old Town
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Old Town is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
    • Idleyld Park
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • North Umpqua Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • North Umpqua Village is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Umpqua Village
    • Glide
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Abrams, see our County-by-County Page for Abrams.

Cemeteries Near Abrams ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Abrams.

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 Abrams - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Abrams covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Abrams, with the one closest to Abrams listed first.

  • Broumbaugh Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Brumbaugh Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Lone Pine Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Taylor - Lane Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Bemis Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Sears Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Shields Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Doolittle Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • McFarland Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Hawley Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Fir Grove Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Indian Burial Ground
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
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    • Walker Union Church Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Silk Creek Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Comstock Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)

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 Abrams in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Abrams.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Abrams, with the one closest to Abrams listed first.

  • Wallace ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Wallace is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
  • Wildwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Wildwood is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
  • Cottage Grove
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Divide ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Divide is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
  • Walker
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Walker is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
  • Comstock
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Comstock is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
  • Royal
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Royal is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
  • Elkhead
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Elkhead is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
  • Cresswell
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Yoncalla
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Dexter
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Lorane
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Lowell
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Trent
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Trent is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent
    • Drain
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Drain is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drain
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,201 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Drain <1>

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Abrams. See our List of 1890's Communities around Abrams.

Newspapers Published in Abrams ...

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 73 newspapers that have been published in the area around Abrams.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Abrams, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Abrams.

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 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 Abrams:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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 Abrams, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Abrams) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.