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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Bellamy. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Bellamy to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bellamy, 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 Bellamy (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 Bellamy. 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 doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Bellamy is historic, it would have been located within present day Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Benton, Lane, Polk & Tillamook.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Bellamy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bellamy, with the one closest to Bellamy listed first.
    • Siletz
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Toledo
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Pioneer City ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Pioneer City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer City
    • Newport Heights
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Newport Heights is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Heights
    • Otter Rock
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Elk City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Elk City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk City
    • Newport
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • South Beach
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Yaquina
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
      • Yaquina has also been known as:
      • Yaquina City
    • Logsden
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Depoe Bay
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Eddyville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Lincoln Beach
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bellamy, with the one closest to Bellamy listed first.
    • Summit
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Summit is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
    • Blodgett
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Kings Valley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Wren
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Wren is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wren
    • Alsea
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Flynn
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Flynn is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flynn
    • Philomath
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bellamy, with the one closest to Bellamy listed first.
    • Valsetz ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Valsetz is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valsetz
    • Falls City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Bridgeport
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Bridgeport is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
    • Airlie
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Airlie is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
    • Lewisville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Lewisville is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville
    • Grand Ronde
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Tillamook County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bellamy, with the one closest to Bellamy listed first.
    • Neskowin
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Dolph ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Dolph is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolph
    • Bellwood ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Bellwood is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellwood

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

Cemeteries Near Bellamy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bellamy.

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

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

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

  • Paul Washington Indian Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Toledo Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toledo Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Toledo Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Toledo.
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Elk City Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Chitwood Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Eddy Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Eddyville Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Wigle Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Nortons Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Josephine Young Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (37 more) ...
    • Fern Ridge Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Taft Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Harlan Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)

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.

While we didn't find Bellamy in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bellamy.

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

  • Yaquina
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
    • Yaquina has also been known as:
    • Yaquina City
  • Summit
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Summit is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
  • Blodgett
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Hoskins
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Hoskins is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskins
  • Harris
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Harris is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
  • Kings Valley
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Wren
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Wren is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wren
  • Alsea
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Falls City
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Neskowin
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Dolph ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Dolph is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolph

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

Newspapers Published in Bellamy ...

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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bellamy.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bellamy, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bellamy.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Bellamy:

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 Bellamy, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Bellamy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.