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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 Sweet Home (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 Sweet Home. 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 and hospitals 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.

Sweet Home is located in Linn County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Linn County: Benton, Deschutes, Jefferson, Lane, Marion & Polk.

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

  • Linn County     (The home county of Sweet Home)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Home, with the one closest to Sweet Home listed first.
    • Foster
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Holley
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holley
      • Holley is located in Linn County
    • Waterloo
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waterloo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
      • Waterloo is located in Linn County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
    • Crawfordsville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Sodaville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sodaville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodaville
      • Sodaville is located in Linn County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
    • Cascadia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Lacomb
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacomb
      • Lacomb is located in Linn County
    • South Lebanon
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Lebanon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lebanon
      • South Lebanon is located in Linn County
    • Lebanon
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Brownsville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
      • Brownsville is located in Linn County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,838 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brownsville <1>
    • Irvinville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irvinville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvinville
      • Irvinville is located in Linn County
    • Crabtree
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Boston ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boston. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boston
      • Boston is located in Linn County
      • Boston has also been known as:
      • Boston Mills
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Home, with the one closest to Sweet Home listed first.
    • North Albany
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Albany have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Albany
      • North Albany is located in Benton County
    • Jennyopolis ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Jennyopolis. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennyopolis
      • Jennyopolis is located in Benton County
    • Bellfountain Junction
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Lewisburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisburg
      • Lewisburg is located in Benton County
    • Corvallis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Monroe
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Lane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Home, with the one closest to Sweet Home listed first.
    • Marcola
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Vida
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Leaburg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Walterville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Blue River
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Finn Rock
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Coburg
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coburg have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coburg
      • Coburg is located in Lane County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,195 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Coburg <1>
    • Thurston
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • North Springfield
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Springfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Springfield
      • North Springfield is located in Lane County
    • Junction City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Junction City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction City
      • Junction City is located in Lane County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,211 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Junction City <1>
    • Springfield
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jasper
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Santa Clara
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Clara have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Clara
      • Santa Clara is located in Lane County
  • Marion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Home, with the one closest to Sweet Home listed first.
    • Jefferson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Mehama
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • West Stayton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Marion
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Stayton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stayton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stayton
      • Stayton is located in Marion County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,256 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stayton <1>
    • Santiam City ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santiam City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santiam City
      • Santiam City is located in Marion County
    • Sublimity
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sublimity have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublimity
      • Sublimity is located in Marion County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,784 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sublimity <1>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Sweet Home ...

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 72 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sweet Home.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Sweet Home. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Sweet Home and those printed in the larger area surrounding Sweet Home.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Sweet Home.

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 Sweet Home:

Cemeteries Near Sweet Home ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sweet Home.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Sweet Home Valley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sweet Home Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sweet Home Valley Cemetery
  • Ames Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lewis Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lewis Cemetery
  • Wiley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wiley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wiley Cemetery
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Liberty Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Liberty Cemetery
  • Spring Family Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Spring Family Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Spring Family Cemetery
  • Berlin Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Berlin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Berlin Cemetery
  • Linn Memorial Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Linn Memorial Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Linn Memorial Cemetery
  • Crawfordsville Union Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Crawfordsville Union Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Crawfordsville Union Cemetery
  • Finley Pioneer Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Klum Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Klum Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Klum Cemetery
  • Bellinger Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bellinger Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bellinger Cemetery
  • Continue List   (100 more) ...
    • Whitcomb Island Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whitcomb Island Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whitcomb Island Cemetery
    • Lacomb Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lacomb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lacomb Cemetery
    • Drury Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Drury Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Drury Cemetery

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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Sweet Home had a population of 285 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Sweet Home had a population of 10,021 people.

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

  • Holley
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holley
    • Holley is located in Linn County
  • Crawfordsville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Waterloo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Waterloo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
    • Waterloo is located in Linn County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
  • Sodaville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sodaville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodaville
    • Sodaville is located in Linn County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
  • Lacomb
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacomb
    • Lacomb is located in Linn County
  • Lebanon
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Brownsville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsville
    • Brownsville is located in Linn County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,838 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brownsville <1>
  • Irvinville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Irvinville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvinville
    • Irvinville is located in Linn County
  • Plainview
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plainview have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
    • Plainview is located in Linn County
  • Spicer
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spicer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spicer
    • Spicer is located in Linn County
  • Tallman
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tallman have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tallman
    • Tallman is located in Linn County
  • Crabtree
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Rowland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rowland have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowland
      • Rowland is located in Linn County
    • Mohawk
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mohawk have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk
      • Mohawk is located in Lane County
    • Leaburg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)

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

The official website for Sweet Home: www.ci.sweet-home.or.us/

The official website for Linn County: www.co.linn.or.us/

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.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.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Sweet Home) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sweet Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.4022, Longitude: -122.7027       In this case, the coordinates for Sweet Home have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Sweet Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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