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 Goosetown (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 Goosetown. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Goosetown is located in Chester 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 Chester County : New Castle (DE) , Cecil (MD) , Berks , Delaware , Lancaster & Montgomery .
Below are the counties that are near Goosetown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Goosetown:
Chester County (The home county of Goosetown)
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Caln (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Caln is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caln Mortonville (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Mortonville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mortonville Modena (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Modena is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modena Population from the 2020 Census: 528 people
South Coatesville (Less than 2 miles to the west)
South Coatesville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Coatesville Population from the 2020 Census: 1,499 people
Thorndale (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Youngsburg (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Youngsburg is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Youngsburg Coatesville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Downingtown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Cedar Knoll (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Cedar Knoll is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Knoll Buck Run (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Buck Run is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Run Pomeroy (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Sadsburyville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Stottsville (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Stottsville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stottsville Allegheny County
Overbrook (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Overbrook is located in Allegheny County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Overbrook Berks County
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Kenneys (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
Kenneys is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenneys Joanna (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Joanna is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joanna Morgantown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
New Morgan (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
New Morgan is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Morgan Population from the 2020 Census: 76 people
Geigertown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Geigertown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geigertown Bally (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Scarlets Mill (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Scarlets Mill is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scarlets Mill Plowville (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Plowville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plowville Beckersville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Beckersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckersville Monocacy (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Monocacy is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monocacy Birdsboro (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Amity Gardens (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Amity Gardens is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity Gardens Alleghenyville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Alleghenyville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alleghenyville Delaware County
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Glen Mills (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Chester Heights (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Edgemont (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Edgemont is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont Zebleys Corner (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Zebleys Corner is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zebleys Corner Aston Mills (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Aston Mills is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aston Mills Glen Riddle (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Glen Riddle is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Riddle Lima (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Lima is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima Rockdale (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Rockdale is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale Chelsea (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Chelsea is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea Garnet Valley (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Village Green (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Village Green is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village Green Creekside Village at Naamans (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Boothwyn (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
Indiana County
Ernest (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Ernest is located in Indiana County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ernest Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Christiana (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Gap (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Meadville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Meadville is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadville Beartown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Beartown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beartown Churchtown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Buyerstown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Buyerstown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buyerstown Ninepoints (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Ninepoints is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninepoints Smyrna (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Smyrna is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna Kinzers (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
East Earl (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Blue Ball (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Intercourse (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Leaman Place (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
Leaman Place is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leaman Place Montgomery County
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Port Providence (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Port Providence is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Providence Bramcote (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote Mingo (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Mingo is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mingo Royersford (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Pottstown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Stowe (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
West Pottsgrove (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
West Pottsgrove is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Pottsgrove Colonial Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Colonial Village is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village Audubon (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Sanatoga (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Halfway House (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Halfway House is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway House Collegeville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
King - of - Prussia (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Philadelphia County
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Bartram Village (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Bartram Village is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartram Village Manayunk (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Manayunk is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manayunk Roxborough (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Roxborough is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxborough Chestnut Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Chestnut Hill is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut Hill Highland (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Highland is located in Philadelphia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland New Castle County (DE)
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Yorklyn (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Hockessin (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Southwood (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Southwood is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwood Vintage Village (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Vintage Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vintage Village Ashland (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Ashland is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Centreville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
North Star (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
North Star is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Star York Towne (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
York Towne is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York Towne Cokesbury Village (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Cokesbury Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokesbury Village Mount Cuba (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Mount Cuba is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Cuba Mendenhall Village (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Mendenhall Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendenhall Village Winterthur (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Greenville (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Cecil County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Appleton (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Appleton is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleton Old Line Village of Fair Hill (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Blake (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Blake is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blake Fair Hill (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Fair Hill is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Hill Andora (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Andora is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andora Barksdale (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Barksdale is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barksdale Blue Ball Village (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Blue Ball Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Ball Village Bank ‑ Historic(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Bank is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bank Cherry Hill (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Cherry Hill is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Hill Elk Mills (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
West Creek Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
West Creek Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Creek Village Winding Brook Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Winding Brook Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winding Brook Village Calvert (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Calvert is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert Harford County (MD)
Conowingo Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Conowingo Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conowingo Village Gloucester County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Bridgeport (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Bridgeport is located in Gloucester County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport Beckett (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Beckett is located in Gloucester County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckett Cooper (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Cooper is located in Gloucester County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooper Gibbstown (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Gibbstown is located in Gloucester County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbstown Salem County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Carneys Point (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Carneys Point is located in Salem County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carneys Point Pennsville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Pennsville is located in Salem County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennsville Auburn (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Auburn is located in Salem County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburn
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Goosetown, see our County-by-County Page for Goosetown .
Cemeteries Near Goosetown ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goosetown.
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 Goosetown - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Goosetown covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Doe Run Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doe Run Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Doe Run Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> Coatesville . The Doe Run Cemetery has also been known as:
Doe Run Presbyterian Church Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244008 <3>
Fairview Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the west)
St. Cecilia Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Fallowfield Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
St. Joseph Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Ukrainian Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Beth Israel Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Polish Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Marshallton UMC Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Friendship Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
St. Malachi Catholic Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Malachi Catholic Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Malachi Catholic Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> Chatham . The St. Malachi Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
Doe Run Catholic Cemetery Doe Run Catholic Church Cemetery St. Malachi Church Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2192550 <3>
Mt. Olive African American Methodist Episcopal Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Continue List (388 more) ...
West Marlborough AME Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Londonderry Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Union Hill Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Goosetown in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Goosetown.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Goosetown, with the one closest to Goosetown listed first.
Modena (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Modena is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modena Population from the 2020 Census: 528 people
Mortonville (Less than 2 miles to the south)
Mortonville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mortonville Caln (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Caln is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caln Laurel (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Laurel is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurel Romansville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Romansville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Romansville Thorndale (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Coatesville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Ercildoun (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
Ercildoun is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ercildoun Embreeville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Embreeville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Embreeville Gallagherville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
Gallagherville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallagherville Siousca (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Siousca is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siousca Buck Run (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Buck Run is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Run Continue List (13 more) ...
Doe Run (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Doe Run is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doe Run Glenhall (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Glenhall is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenhall Downingtown (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Goosetown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Goosetown .
Newspapers Published in Goosetown ...
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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around Goosetown.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Goosetown, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Goosetown.
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 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 Goosetown:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Chester County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Allegheny County Berks County Delaware County Indiana County Lancaster County Montgomery County Philadelphia County New Castle County Cecil County Harford County Gloucester County Salem County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Goosetown. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for Chester County: https://www.chesco.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. 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- Goosetown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 Goosetown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.