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 Dromgold (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 Dromgold. 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 southwest 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 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.
Dromgold is located in Perry 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 Perry County : Cumberland , Dauphin , Franklin , Juniata & Northumberland .
Below are the counties that are near Dromgold. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dromgold:
Perry County (The home county of Dromgold)
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Falling Spring (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Falling Spring is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring Mecks Corner (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Mecks Corner is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecks Corner Alinda (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Alinda is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alinda Blain (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Elliottsburg (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Elliottsburg is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliottsburg Rose Glen (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Rose Glen is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Glen Landisburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Duncannon (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Newport (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Eshcol (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Eshcol is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eshcol Cove (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Cove is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Bailey (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Bailey is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Bixler (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Bixler is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bixler Adams County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Latimore (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Latimore is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimore Gargol (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Gargol is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gargol Idaville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Idaville is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idaville Gardners (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
York Springs (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Aspers (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Bendersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Lake Meade (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Lake Meade is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Meade Guernsey (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Guernsey is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guernsey Heidlersburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Heidlersburg is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidlersburg Biglerville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Arendtsville (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Hampton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
Hampton is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Allegheny County
Bloomfield (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Bloomfield is located in Allegheny County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Population from the 2020 Census: 1,255 people
Cumberland County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Caprivi (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Caprivi is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caprivi Schlusser (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Schlusser is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schlusser Middlesex (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Middlesex is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Carlisle (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
New Kingstown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Plainfield (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
Good Hope (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Good Hope is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope Roxbury (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Roxbury is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury Bears Crossroads (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Bears Crossroads is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bears Crossroads Boiling Springs (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Craighead (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Craighead is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craighead Mechanicsburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Sporting Hill (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Sporting Hill is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sporting Hill Dauphin County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Dauphin (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
Fort Hunter (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
Fort Hunter is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hunter Harrisburg (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Lucknow (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Lucknow is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucknow Stone Glen (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Stone Glen is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Glen Halifax (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
Hillside Village (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Hillside Village is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Village Edgemont (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Penbrook (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Penbrook is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penbrook Population from the 2020 Census: 2,976 people
Millersburg (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Old Colonial Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Old Colonial Village is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Colonial Village Paxtang (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Paxtang is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxtang Population from the 2020 Census: 1,546 people
Fisherville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Fisherville is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisherville Franklin County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Mowersville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Mowersville is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mowersville Concord (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Concord is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord Orrstown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Roxbury (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Roxbury is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury Doylestown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Doylestown is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doylestown Pinola (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Pinola is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinola Huntingdon County
Blairs Mills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Blairs Mills is located in Huntingdon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairs Mills Juniata County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Locust Run (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Locust Run is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Run Thompsontown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Mexico (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Mexico is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexico Old Port (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Old Port is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Port Port Royal (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Mifflintown (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Seven Stars (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Seven Stars is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Stars Doyles Mills (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Doyles Mills is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyles Mills Mifflin (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Mifflin is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mifflin Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
McAlisterville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Swales (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Swales is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swales East Rutherford (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
East Rutherford is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Rutherford McCullochs Mills (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
McCullochs Mills is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCullochs Mills Lancaster County
Falmouth (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Falmouth is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falmouth Mifflin County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Alfarata (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Alfarata is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfarata Paintersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Paintersville is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paintersville Anderson (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Anderson is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson Juniata Terrace (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Juniata Terrace is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniata Terrace Population from the 2020 Census: 533 people
Lewistown Junction (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Lewistown Junction is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown Junction Lewistown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Burnham (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Highland Park (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Highland Park is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park Yeagertown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Honey Creek (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Honey Creek is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honey Creek Lumber City (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Lumber City is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumber City Mattawana (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Mattawana is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattawana McVeytown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Northumberland County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Malta (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Malta is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta Mandata (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Mandata is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandata Snyder County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
McClure (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Aline (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Aline is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline Shadle (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Shadle is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadle Hoffer (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Hoffer is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffer McKees Half Falls (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
McKees Half Falls is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKees Half Falls Bannerville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Bannerville is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannerville Beaver Springs (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Beaver Springs is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Springs Mount Pleasant Mills (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Beavertown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Middle Creek (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Middle Creek is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek Chapman (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Chapman is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Pallas (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Pallas is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pallas Benfer (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Benfer is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benfer York County
The following are listed by their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Siddonsburg (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Siddonsburg is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siddonsburg Andersontown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Andersontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andersontown Dillsburg (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
New Market (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
New Market is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market Rudytown ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Rudytown was located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudytown Uniontown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Uniontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown Nauvoo (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Nauvoo is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nauvoo Lewisberry (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Marsh Run (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Marsh Run is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marsh Run Mount Top (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Mount Top is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Top Redland Village (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Redland Village is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redland Village Wellsville (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Alpine (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Alpine is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dromgold, see our County-by-County Page for Dromgold .
Cemeteries Near Dromgold ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dromgold.
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 Dromgold - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dromgold covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Snyders Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Landisburg Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Evergreen Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Restland Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Westminister Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Union Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Cumberland County Home Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Letort Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letort Cemetery The Letort Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Carlisle . The Letort Cemetery has also been known as:
Kutz Cemetery Kutz's Cemetery Letort UMC Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1965543 <2>
Oak Grove Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Duncannon Presbyterian Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Newport Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Eshcol Memorial Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Continue List (174 more) ...
McClures Gap Cemetery (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Cumberland Valley Memorial Gardens (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Ashland Cemetery (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
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 Dromgold in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dromgold.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dromgold, with the one closest to Dromgold listed first.
Shermans Dale (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Falling Spring (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Falling Spring is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring Dellville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Dellville is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellville Alinda (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Alinda is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alinda Carlisle Springs (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Carlisle Springs is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlisle Springs New Bloomfield (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Blain (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Bloomfield (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Bloomfield is located in Allegheny County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Population from the 2020 Census: 1,255 people
Elliottsburg (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Elliottsburg is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliottsburg Mannsville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Mannsville is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville Landisburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Keystone (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Keystone is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone Continue List (13 more) ...
Wahneta (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Wahneta is also located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahneta Middlesex (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Middlesex is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Wertzville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Wertzville is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wertzville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dromgold. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dromgold .
Newspapers Published in Dromgold ...
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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dromgold.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dromgold, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Dromgold.
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 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 Dromgold:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Perry County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adams County Allegheny County Cumberland County Dauphin County Franklin County Huntingdon County Juniata County Lancaster County Mifflin County Northumberland County Snyder County York County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Dromgold. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Perry County: https://perryco.org/
The official website for Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: https://www.pa.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Dromgold, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Dromgold) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.