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 Alliance Furnace (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 Alliance Furnace. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Alliance Furnace is located in Westmoreland County.
To see how the shape of Pennsylvania's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Westmoreland County: Allegheny, Armstrong, Butler, Cambria, Fayette, Indiana & Somerset.
Below are the counties that are near Alliance Furnace. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Alliance Furnace:
- Westmoreland County (The home county of Alliance Furnace)
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Smithton
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Wyano
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Wyano is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyano
- Hawkeye
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hawkeye is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hawkeye
- Scottdale
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Alverton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Alverton is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alverton
- West Newton
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Yukon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- North Belle Vernon
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- North Belle Vernon is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Belle Vernon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,842 people
- Iron Bridge
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Iron Bridge is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Bridge
- West Overton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- West Overton is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Overton
- Hunker
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Webster
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Webster is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster
- Gibsonton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Gibsonton is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibsonton
- Allegheny County
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Sunny Side
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Sunny Side is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunny Side
- Buena Vista
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Buena Vista is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
- Boston
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Elizabeth
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Lincoln
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Lincoln is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,013 people
- West Elizabeth
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Clairton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Versailles
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Versailles is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Versailles
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,452 people
- White Oak
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Jefferson Hills
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jefferson Hills is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 11,136 people
- Jefferson Hills has also been known as:
- Jefferson
- Liberty
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Liberty is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,438 people
- Mendelssohn
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mendelssohn is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendelssohn
- Coal Valley
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Coal Valley is located in Allegheny County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Valley
- Armstrong County
- Edmon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Edmon is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmon
- Fayette County
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Fuller
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Fuller is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fuller
- Banning
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Banning is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banning
- Lynn
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lynn is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynn
- Perryopolis
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Whitsett
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Whitsett is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitsett
- Flatwoods
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Flatwoods is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatwoods
- Dawson
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Dickerson Run
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Dickerson Run is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickerson Run
- Redstone
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Redstone is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redstone
- Arnold City
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Arnold City is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold City
- Brownstown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Brownstown is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownstown
- Fairhope
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Fairhope is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairhope
- Fayette City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Fayette City is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fayette City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 569 people
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Rices Landing
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Stringtown
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Stringtown is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stringtown
- Clarksville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Cumberland Village
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Cumberland Village is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland Village
- Nemacolin
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Nemacolin is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nemacolin
- Carmichaels
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Chartiers
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Chartiers is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chartiers
- Fairdale
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Fairdale is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairdale
- Jefferson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jefferson is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
- Population from the 2020 Census: 249 people
- Ceylon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Ceylon is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ceylon
- Khedive
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Khedive is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Khedive
- Greensboro
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lippincott
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lippincott is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lippincott
- Indiana County
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- White
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- White is located in Indiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White
- Bow
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bow is located in Indiana County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bow
- Somerset County
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Draketown
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Draketown is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Draketown
- Bakersville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Bakersville is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakersville
- Confluence
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- New Lexington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- New Lexington is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lexington
- Laurel Mountain Village
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Lavansville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Lavansville is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavansville
- Roytown
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Roytown is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roytown
- New Centerville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- New Centerville is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Centerville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 127 people
- Washington County
- The following are listed by their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Donora
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Allenport
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Dunlevy
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Roscoe
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Roscoe is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roscoe
- Population from the 2020 Census: 791 people
- Speers
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Speers is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speers
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,061 people
- Twilight
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Twilight is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twilight
- Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
- California
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Charleroi
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Elco
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Elco is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elco
- Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
- Long Branch
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Long Branch is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Branch
- Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
- Stockdale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Blainsburg
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Blainsburg is located in Washington County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blainsburg
- Coal Center
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Preston County (WV)
- Clifton Mills
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Clifton Mills is located in Preston County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton Mills
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Alliance Furnace, see our County-by-County Page for Alliance Furnace.
Cemeteries Near Alliance Furnace ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Alliance Furnace.
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 Alliance Furnace - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Alliance Furnace covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- St. Timothys Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Hoffman Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffman Cemetery
- The Hoffman Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hope Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Old Brick Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #45096 <2>
- St. John the Baptist RC Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. John the Baptist RC Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. John the Baptist RC Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Perryopolis.
- The St. John the Baptist RC Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Johns Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #46044 <2>
- Mt. Washington Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- East Salem Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Bowman - Flatwoods Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacred Heart RC Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sacred Heart RC Cemetery is located in Dickerson Run.
- The Sacred Heart RC Cemetery has also been known as:
- Sacred Heart Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2439278 <2>
- Cochran Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Bethel Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Dickerson Run - Union Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- St. Johns Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Scottdale Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Continue List (410 more) ...
- West Newton Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Yukon Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Markle Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
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 Alliance Furnace in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Alliance Furnace.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Alliance Furnace, with the one closest to Alliance Furnace listed first.
- Fuller
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Fuller is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fuller
- Layton
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Layton is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layton
- Jacobs Creek
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Jacobs Creek is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jacobs Creek
- Banning
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Banning is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banning
- Whitsett
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Whitsett is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitsett
- Perryopolis
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Smithton
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fitz Henry
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Fitz Henry is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fitz Henry
- Mendon
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Mendon is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendon
- Port Royal
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Port Royal is located in Westmoreland County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Royal
- Redstone
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Redstone is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redstone
- Curfew
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Curfew is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curfew
- Continue List (20 more) ...
- Flatwoods
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Flatwoods is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flatwoods
- Dickerson Run
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Dickerson Run is located in Fayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickerson Run
- Dawson
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Alliance Furnace. See our List of 1890's Communities around Alliance Furnace.
Newspapers Published in Alliance Furnace ...
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 61 newspapers that have been published in the area around Alliance Furnace.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Alliance Furnace, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Alliance Furnace.
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 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 Alliance Furnace:
- Websites specific to Pennsylvania
- Pages specific to Westmoreland County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Allegheny County
- Armstrong County
- Fayette County
- Greene County
- Indiana County
- Somerset County
- Washington County
- Preston County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania
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 Alliance Furnace, 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- Alliance Furnace) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |