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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 Cherry Corner (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 Cherry Corner. 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 Cherry Corner ...

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 Cherry Corner: Cherry Cor. (or less commonly used: Cherry Crn.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Cherry Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cherry Corner.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Cherry Corner is located in Clearfield 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 Clearfield County: Cameron, Centre, Clinton, Elk, Indiana & Jefferson.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Cherry Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cherry Corner.

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 Cherry Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

  • Bower
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Bower is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bower
  • Bells Landing
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Bells Landing is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bells Landing
  • Marron
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Marron is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marron
  • Curry Run
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Newburg
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Newburg is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newburg
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
  • Gazzam
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Kerrmoor
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Kerrmoor is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerrmoor
  • Ostend
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Ostend is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ostend
  • Mayes
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Mayes is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayes
  • Ansonville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Ansonville is located in Clearfield County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ansonville
  • Lumber City
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Mahaffey
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • New Washington
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • New Washington is located in Clearfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Washington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 54 people
    • Berwinsdale
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Berwinsdale is located in Clearfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berwinsdale
    • New Millport
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • New Millport is located in Clearfield County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Millport

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

Newspapers Published in Cherry Corner ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cherry Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cherry Corner, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cherry Corner.

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 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 Cherry Corner:

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 Cherry Corner, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cherry Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.