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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 Greenleaf (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 Greenleaf. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Greenleaf 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 Greenleaf. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Greenleaf:

  • Lane County     (The home county of Greenleaf)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Greenleaf, with the one closest to Greenleaf listed first.
    • Alpha
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Alpha is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
    • Deadwood
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Walton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Swisshome
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Blachly
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Noti
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Mapleton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Long Tom
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Long Tom is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Tom
    • Point Terrace
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Point Terrace is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Terrace
    • Elmira
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Veneta
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Fern Ridge Shores
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Fern Ridge Shores is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern Ridge Shores
    • Crow
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Crow is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Greenleaf, with the one closest to Greenleaf listed first.
    • Alsea
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Monroe
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Bellfountain Junction
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jennyopolis ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jennyopolis is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennyopolis
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Greenleaf, with the one closest to Greenleaf listed first.
    • Tidewater
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Westwood Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Westwood Village is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Village
    • Yachats
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Tillicum Beach
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Tillicum Beach is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tillicum Beach
    • Waldport
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Linn County
    • Harrisburg
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Greenleaf ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Greenleaf.

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

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

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

  • Deadwood Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Chickahominy Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Linslaw Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Walton Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Blachly Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Indian Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • IOOF - Mapleton Lodge #3139 Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Alma Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Alma Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<2> to the southwest of Veneta.
    • The Alma Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Layne Cemetery
    • Mound Cemetery
    • Pettit Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2242280 <3>
  • Sailor Pioneer - Noti Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Lobster Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobster Valley Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lobster Valley Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<2> to the southwest of Alsea.
    • The Lobster Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Charles Hendrix Memorial Gardens
    • Hendrix - Lobster Valley Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246942 <3>
  • Lone Fir Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Goldson Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (79 more) ...
    • Madera Grave
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Stephens S S Heirs Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Mounse Burial
      (17 miles [27.4 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.<4>

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

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

  • Alpha
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Alpha is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
  • Deadwood
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Walton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Siuslaw ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Siuslaw is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siuslaw
  • Point Terrace
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Point Terrace is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Terrace
  • Long Tom
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Long Tom is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Tom
  • Elmira
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Alma
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Alma is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
  • Crow
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Crow is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow
  • Franklin
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Franklin is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
  • Alsea
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Hadleyville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hadleyville is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hadleyville
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Acme
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Acme is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
    • Monroe
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Florence
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Greenleaf ...

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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Greenleaf.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Greenleaf. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Greenleaf and those printed in the larger area surrounding Greenleaf.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<2> of Greenleaf.

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 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 Greenleaf:

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