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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 Coons Corners (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 Coons Corners. 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 Coons Corners ...

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 have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Coons Corners: Coons Cors.
  • While the name of this community is Coons Corners, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Coons Corners may originally have been Coon's Corners.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Coons Corners might be written as Coon Corners.

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 doctors 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.

Coons Corners is located in Crawford County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Crawford County: Ashtabula (OH), Trumbull (OH), Erie, Mercer, Venango & Warren.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Coons Corners ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Coons Corners.

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 Coons Corners covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Dunn Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dunn Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dunn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Acker - Rodgers Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Littles Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Littles Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Littles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cole Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cole Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cole Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Saegertown Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Saegertown Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Saegertown Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Brookhouser Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brookhouser Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brookhouser Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Denny Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Denny Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Denny Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Smith Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Smith Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Smith Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rundell Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rundell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rundell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Breckenridge Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Breckenridge Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Breckenridge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Mt. Blair Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Blair Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Blair Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Gravel Run Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gravel Run Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gravel Run Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (196 more) ...

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 in 1895, Coons Corners had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Mosiertown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mosiertown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosiertown
    • Mosiertown is located in Crawford County
  • Norrisville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Rundell
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rundell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rundell
    • Rundell is located in Crawford County
  • Watson Run
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Harmonsburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Kerrtown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Meadville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Venango
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Venango have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venango
    • Venango is located in Crawford County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 247 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Venango <3>
  • Woodcock
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Woodcock have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodcock
    • Woodcock is located in Crawford County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 147 people
  • Hickernell
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hickernell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickernell
    • Hickernell is located in Crawford County
  • Crossingville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Meadville Junction
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadville Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville Junction
    • Meadville Junction is located in Crawford County
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Coons Corners ...

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 130 newspapers that have been published in the area around Coons Corners.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Coons Corners, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<7>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Coons Corners.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Coons Corners:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Coons Corners. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Crawford County: www.co.crawford.pa.us/

The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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).
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<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 Coons Corners, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<7>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 from Point A (ie- Coons Corners) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Coons Corners. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7159, Longitude: -80.2097    









 

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