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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 Wakonda Beach (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 Wakonda Beach. 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.

Name Variations for Wakonda Beach ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Wakonda Beach: Wakonda Bch.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Wakonda Beach)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wakonda Beach, with the one closest to Wakonda Beach listed first.
    • Tillicum Beach
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Tillicum Beach is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tillicum Beach
    • Waldport
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Yachats
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Westwood Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Westwood Village is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Village
    • Seal Rock
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Tidewater
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • South Beach
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Yaquina
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
      • Yaquina has also been known as:
      • Yaquina City
    • Newport
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Toledo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Newport Heights
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Newport Heights is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Heights
    • Elk City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Elk City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk City
    • Pioneer City ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Pioneer City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer City
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wakonda Beach, with the one closest to Wakonda Beach listed first.
    • Alsea
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Summit
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Summit is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
  • Lane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wakonda Beach, with the one closest to Wakonda Beach listed first.
    • Alpha
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Alpha is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
    • Deadwood
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Mapleton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Swisshome
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Florence
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Point Terrace
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Point Terrace is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Terrace
    • Glenada
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Glenada is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenada
    • Blachly
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Wakonda Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wakonda Beach.

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 Wakonda Beach - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Alder Grove Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Memorial Home Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Yachats Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Carson Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Fern Ridge Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Tidewater Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Bray Family Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bray Family Cemetery
    • The Bray Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Stonefield Beach Cemetery
  • Madera Grave
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Toledo Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • 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.
  • Lone Fir Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (26 more) ...
    • Elk City Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Indian Creek Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Lobster Valley Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • 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]<3> 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 <2>

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

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

  • Yaquina
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
    • Yaquina has also been known as:
    • Yaquina City
  • Alpha
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Alpha is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
  • Alsea
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Siuslaw ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Siuslaw is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siuslaw
  • Deadwood
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Florence
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Point Terrace
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Point Terrace is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Terrace
  • Acme
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Acme is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
  • Glenada
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Glenada is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenada

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

Newspapers Published in Wakonda Beach ...

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 Wakonda Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wakonda Beach, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wakonda Beach.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Wakonda Beach:

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