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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 Burpee (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 Burpee. 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 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.

Burpee is located in 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 Burpee. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Burpee:

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Burpee)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Burpee, with the one closest to Burpee listed first.
    • Elk City
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Elk City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk City
    • Toledo
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Pioneer City ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Pioneer City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer City
    • Yaquina
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
      • Yaquina has also been known as:
      • Yaquina City
    • Eddyville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Newport Heights
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Newport Heights is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Heights
    • Siletz
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Newport
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • South Beach
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Logsden
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Seal Rock
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Otter Rock
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Burpee, with the one closest to Burpee listed first.
    • Summit
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Summit is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
    • Blodgett
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Alsea
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Wren
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Wren is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wren
    • Kings Valley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Flynn
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Flynn is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flynn
    • Philomath
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Burpee, with the one closest to Burpee listed first.
    • Valsetz ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Valsetz is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valsetz
    • Airlie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Airlie is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
    • Falls City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bridgeport
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Bridgeport is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
    • Lewisville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Lewisville is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville

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

Cemeteries Near Burpee ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Burpee.

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

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

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

  • Elk City Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Toledo Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • 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.
  • Chitwood Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Eddyville Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Eddy Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Paul Washington Indian Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Fern Ridge Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Harlan Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Nortons Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (47 more) ...
    • Wigle Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Tidewater Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Leslie Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 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.<3>

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

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

  • Yaquina
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
    • Yaquina has also been known as:
    • Yaquina City
  • Summit
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Summit is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
  • Blodgett
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Alsea
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Harris
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Harris is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
  • Hoskins
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Hoskins is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskins
  • Wren
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Wren is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wren
  • Kings Valley
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Philomath
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Airlie
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Airlie is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
  • Falls City
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Burpee. See our List of 1890's Communities around Burpee.

Newspapers Published in Burpee ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Burpee.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Burpee, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Burpee.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Burpee:

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 Burpee, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Burpee) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.