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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Bills Place. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Bills Place to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bills Place, please Contact Us.
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 Bills Place (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 Bills Place. 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 Bills Place ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for Bills Place: Bills Pl. (or less commonly used: Bills Plc.)
- While the name of this community is Bills Place, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Bills Place may originally have been Bill's Place.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Bills Place might be written as Bill Place.
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 southwest 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 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Bills Place is historic, it would have been located within present day Fulton 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 Fulton County: Allegany (MD), Washington (MD), Bedford, Franklin & Huntingdon.
Below are the counties that are near Bills Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bills Place:
- Fulton County (The home county of Bills Place)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Valley-Hi
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Valley-Hi is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley-Hi
- Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
- Akersville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Akersville is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akersville
- Crystal Spring
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Crystal Spring is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Spring
- Wells Tannery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Wells Tannery is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells Tannery
- Laidig
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Laidig is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laidig
- Harrisonville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Harrisonville is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisonville
- Emmaville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Emmaville is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmaville
- Sipes Mill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Sipes Mill is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sipes Mill
- Pleasant Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Ridge is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
- Waterfall
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Littleton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Clear Ridge
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Clear Ridge is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Ridge
- Bedford County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Breezewood
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Graceville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Graceville is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graceville
- Hopewell
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Coaldale
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Coaldale is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 151 people
- Langdondale
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Langdondale is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langdondale
- Saxton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Everett
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Riddlesburg
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Riddlesburg is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riddlesburg
- Marble City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Marble City is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble City
- Yellow Creek
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Yellow Creek is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yellow Creek
- Mount Dallas
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Mount Dallas is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Dallas
- Penn Wood
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Penn Wood is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penn Wood
- Blair County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Clover Creek
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Clover Creek is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Creek
- Martinsburg
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- East Sharpsburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- East Sharpsburg is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sharpsburg
- Claysburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Cotton Town
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Cotton Town is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Town
- Beavertown
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Beavertown is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beavertown
- Roaring Spring
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Oreminea
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Oreminea is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oreminea
- Shellytown
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Shellytown is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shellytown
- Brooks Mill
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Brooks Mill is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooks Mill
- Royer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Royer is located in Blair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royer
- Newry
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Cowans Village
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Cowans Village is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowans Village
- Metal
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Metal is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metal
- Cove Gap
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cove Gap is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Gap
- Fort Loudon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Dickey
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Dickey is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickey
- Freestone
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Freestone is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freestone
- Markes
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Markes is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markes
- Mercersburg
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Saint Thomas
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Claylick
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Claylick is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claylick
- Rockdale
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Rockdale is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale
- Keefers
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Keefers is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keefers
- Huntingdon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Robertsdale
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Robertsdale is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robertsdale
- Broad Top City
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Broad Top City is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broad Top City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 443 people
- Coalmont
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Coalmont is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalmont
- Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
- Dudley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Dudley is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dudley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 176 people
- Middletown
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Middletown is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
- Cooks
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Cooks is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooks
- Joller ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Joller is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joller
- Maddensville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Maddensville is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maddensville
- Selea
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Selea is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selea
- Kimmel
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Kimmel is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimmel
- Rocky Ridge ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rocky Ridge is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ridge
- Saltillo
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Saltillo is located in Huntingdon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saltillo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 328 people
- Mifflin County
- Kistler
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Kistler is located in Mifflin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kistler
- Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
- Somerset County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Ogletown
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ogletown is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogletown
- New Baltimore
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- New Baltimore is located in Somerset County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Baltimore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 167 people
- Allegany County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Little Orleans
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Flintstone
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Washington County (MD)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Hancock
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Pearre
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Pearre is located in Washington County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearre
- Big Pool
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Clear Spring
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Fairview
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Fairview is located in Washington County (MD)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Morgan County (WV)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Hancock
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Hancock is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
- Sleepy Creek
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Sleepy Creek is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sleepy Creek
- Bath
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Bath is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bath
- Population from the 2020 Census: 587 people
- Berkeley Springs
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Berryville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Berryville is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berryville
- Woodmont
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Woodmont is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodmont
- Cherry Run
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Cherry Run is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Run
- Orleans Cross Roads
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Orleans Cross Roads is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orleans Cross Roads
- Doe Gully
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Doe Gully is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doe Gully
- Holton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Holton is located in Morgan County (WV)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bills Place, see our County-by-County Page for Bills Place.
Cemeteries Near Bills Place ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bills Place.
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 Bills Place - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bills Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Everett Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Hopewell Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- St. Pauls Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Pauls Cemetery
- The St. Pauls Cemetery has also been known as:
- Yellow Creek Reformed Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #46229 <4>
- Wink Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Waterfall Methodist Church Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Steele Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ritchey Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Hershberger Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Indian Springs Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Duvalls Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Oak Grove Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Waterfall.
- St. Michaels Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Continue List (223 more) ...
- Evans Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Bunker Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Ft. Littleton Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 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.
While we didn't find Bills Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bills Place.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bills Place, with the one closest to Bills Place listed first.
- Akersville
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Akersville is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akersville
- Hopewell
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Graceville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Graceville is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graceville
- Jackson Mills
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jackson Mills is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson Mills
- Gapsville
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Gapsville is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gapsville
- Crystal Spring
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Crystal Spring is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Spring
- Saluvia
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Saluvia is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saluvia
- Wells Tannery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Wells Tannery is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wells Tannery
- Mench
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Mench is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mench
- Emmaville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Emmaville is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmaville
- Sipes Mill
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Sipes Mill is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sipes Mill
- Pleasant Ridge
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Ridge is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Harrisonville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Harrisonville is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisonville
- Enid
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Enid is located in Fulton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enid
- Cypher
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cypher is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypher
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bills Place. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bills Place.
Newspapers Published in Bills Place ...
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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bills Place.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bills Place, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bills Place.
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 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 Bills Place:
- Websites specific to Pennsylvania
- Pages specific to Fulton County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bedford County
- Blair County
- Franklin County
- Huntingdon County
- Mifflin County
- Somerset County
- Allegany County
- Washington County
- Morgan County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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 Bills Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bills Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |