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 Homeville (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 Homeville. 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.
Homeville 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 Homeville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Homeville:
Chester County (The home county of Homeville)
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Mount Vernon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Mount Vernon is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon Daleville (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Daleville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daleville Hopewell (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Hopewell is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Oxford (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Tweedale (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Tweedale is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tweedale Jennersville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Jennersville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennersville Atglen (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Lenover (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Lenover is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lenover Barnsley (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Barnsley is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnsley Elkview (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Elkview is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkview Parkesburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Glen Roy (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Glen Roy is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Roy Buck Run (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Buck Run is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Run Berks County
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Morgantown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Joanna (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Joanna is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joanna Kenneys (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Kenneys is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenneys New Morgan (22 miles [35.4 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 (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Geigertown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geigertown Plowville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Plowville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plowville Alleghenyville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Alleghenyville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alleghenyville Beckersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Beckersville is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beckersville Adamstown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Adamstown is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adamstown Population from the 2020 Census: 1,905 people
Adamstown has also been known as:
Adamschteddel Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Adamstown <1>
Scarlets Mill (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Scarlets Mill is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scarlets Mill Angelica (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Angelica is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angelica Flying Hills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Flying Hills is located in Berks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flying Hills Bally (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Delaware County
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Zebleys Corner (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Zebleys Corner is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zebleys Corner Glen Mills (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Chelsea (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Chelsea is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea Chester Heights (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Creekside Village at Naamans (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Garnet Valley (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Aston Mills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Aston Mills is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aston Mills Boothwyn (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Edgemont (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Edgemont is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgemont Glen Riddle (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Glen Riddle is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Riddle Lima (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Lima is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima Linwood (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Rockdale (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Rockdale is located in Delaware County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockdale Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Ninepoints (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Ninepoints is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninepoints Christiana (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Smyrna (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Smyrna is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smyrna Oak Hill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Oak Hill is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hill Summerhill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Summerhill is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerhill Gap (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Little Britain (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Little Britain is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Britain Kirks Mills (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Kirks Mills is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirks Mills Mechanic Grove (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Mechanic Grove is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mechanic Grove Quarryville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
Buyerstown (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Buyerstown is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buyerstown Kinzers (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Buck (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Buck is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buck Montgomery County
Bramcote (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Bramcote is located in Montgomery County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramcote York County
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Slate Hill (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Slate Hill is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slate Hill Castle Fin (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Castle Fin is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Fin Slab (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Slab is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Slab Delta (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Bryansville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Bryansville is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryansville Kyleville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Kyleville is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyleville Susquehanna Trails (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Susquehanna Trails is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Susquehanna Trails Airville (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Goram (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Goram is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goram Bruce (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Bruce is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruce Fawn Grove (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Muddy Creek Forks (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Muddy Creek Forks is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muddy Creek Forks New Bridgeville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
New Bridgeville is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bridgeville New Castle County (DE)
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Southwood (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Southwood is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southwood Vintage Village (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Vintage Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vintage Village North Star (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
North Star is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Star York Towne (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
York Towne is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for York Towne Hockessin (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Yorklyn (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
Ashland (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Ashland is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland Mendenhall Village (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Mendenhall Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendenhall Village Newark (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Newark is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Population from the 2020 Census: 33,849 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newark <1>
Pike Creek (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Pike Creek is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pike Creek The Village of Drummond Hill (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Cokesbury Village (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
Cokesbury Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cokesbury Village English Village (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
English Village is located in New Castle County (DE) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English Village Cecil County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Blake (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Blake is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blake Sylmar (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Sylmar is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylmar Old Line Village of Fair Hill (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
Mason Dixon Village (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
Mason Dixon Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason Dixon Village Blue Ball Village (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Blue Ball Village is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Ball Village Calvert (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Calvert is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calvert Rising Sun (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
Zion (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
Zion is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion Fair Hill (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Fair Hill is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Hill Andora (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Andora is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andora Rock Springs (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Rock Springs is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Springs Appleton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Appleton is located in Cecil County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Appleton Colora (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
Harford County (MD)
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Conowingo Village (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
Conowingo Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conowingo Village Stafford ‑ Historic(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Stafford is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stafford Lapidum (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Lapidum is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapidum Darlington (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
Dublin (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Dublin is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dublin Poole (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
Poole is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poole Cambria (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Cambria is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambria Garland (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Garland is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland Glenville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Glenville is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenville Webster Village (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Webster Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster Village Whiteford (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
Havre de Grace (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Hopewell Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Hopewell Village is located in Harford County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Village Montgomery County (MD)
High Point Estates (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
High Point Estates is located in Montgomery County (MD) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High Point Estates Salem County (NJ)
The following are listed by their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Pennsville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Pennsville is located in Salem County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennsville Carneys Point (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Carneys Point is located in Salem County (NJ) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carneys Point
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Homeville, see our County-by-County Page for Homeville .
Cemeteries Near Homeville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Homeville.
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 Homeville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Homeville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Glen Run Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Wateland Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Oxford Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Hosanna Meeting House Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Calvary Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Elkridge Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Londonderry Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Nottingham Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Episcopalian Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
St. John's Episcopal Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
St. Malachi Catholic Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
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>
Friendship Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Continue List (317 more) ...
Little Elk Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
New West Grove Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
West Grove Friends Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 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.<4>
While we didn't find Homeville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Homeville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Homeville, with the one closest to Homeville listed first.
Russellville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
Russellville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russellville Mount Vernon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Mount Vernon is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Vernon Faggs Manor (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
Faggs Manor is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Faggs Manor Ninepoints (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Ninepoints is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ninepoints Bartville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Bartville is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartville Kirkwood (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Kirkwood is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkwood Spruce Grove (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Spruce Grove is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spruce Grove Tweedale (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
Tweedale is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tweedale Hopewell (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Hopewell is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell Oxford (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
White Rock (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
White Rock is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock Barnsley (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Barnsley is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnsley Continue List (13 more) ...
Elkview (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Elkview is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkview Kelton (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Kelton is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kelton Jennersville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Jennersville is located in Chester County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennersville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Homeville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Homeville .
Newspapers Published in Homeville ...
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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Homeville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Homeville, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<2> Extended Newspaper List for Homeville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Homeville:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Chester County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Berks County Delaware County Lancaster County Montgomery County York County New Castle County Cecil County Harford County Montgomery County Salem County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Homeville. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Homeville) 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 Homeville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.