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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 Kesslersville (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 Kesslersville. 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 Kesslersville ...

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.

Kesslersville has also been known as: Alamanda, Keslers and Kesslers.

Other variations include: Keslerville, Kesslerville and Kesslerville.

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.

Kesslersville is located in Northampton 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 Northampton County: Warren (NJ), Bucks, Carbon, Lehigh & Monroe.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Kesslersville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kesslersville.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kesslersville, with the one closest to Kesslersville 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.<5>

While we didn't find Kesslersville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kesslersville.

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

  • Belfast
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Belfast have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
    • Belfast is located in Northampton County
  • Edelman
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Edelman have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edelman
    • Edelman is located in Northampton County
  • Stockertown
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stockertown have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stockertown
    • Stockertown is located in Northampton County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 924 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stockertown <2>
  • Martins Creek
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Martins Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martins Creek
    • Martins Creek is located in Northampton County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Martins Creek <2>
  • Nisky
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nisky have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nisky
    • Nisky is located in Northampton County
  • Tatamy
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Sandts Eddy
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sandts Eddy have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandts Eddy
    • Sandts Eddy is located in Northampton County
  • Brainards
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brainards have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brainards
    • Brainards is located in Warren County (NJ)
  • Ackermanville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ackermanville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ackermanville
    • Ackermanville is located in Northampton County
  • Aluta
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aluta have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aluta
    • Aluta is located in Northampton County
  • Nazareth
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Zucksville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
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    • Wind Gap
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Flicksville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flicksville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flicksville
      • Flicksville is located in Northampton County
    • Delabole
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Delabole have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delabole
      • Delabole is located in Northampton County

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

Newspapers Published in Kesslersville ...

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 118 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kesslersville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kesslersville, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kesslersville.

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 either 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 Kesslersville:

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

The official website for Northampton County: www.northamptoncounty.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>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 Kesslersville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kesslersville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kesslersville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7874, Longitude: -75.2428    









 

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