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 Keystone (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 Keystone. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.
Keystone 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 Keystone. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Keystone:
Perry County (The home county of Keystone)
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Cove (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Cove is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Perdix (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Perdix is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perdix Duncannon (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Rose Glen (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Rose Glen is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Glen Marysville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Mecks Corner (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Mecks Corner is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecks Corner Falling Spring (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Falling Spring is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring New Buffalo (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
New Buffalo is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Buffalo Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
Blain (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Bailey (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
Bailey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Newport (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Alinda (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Alinda is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alinda Elliottsburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Elliottsburg is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliottsburg Adams County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Latimore (19 miles [30.6 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 York Springs (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Gardners (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Lake Meade (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Lake Meade is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Meade Aspers (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Bendersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Heidlersburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
Heidlersburg is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heidlersburg East Berlin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Guernsey (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Guernsey is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guernsey Hampton (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Hampton is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton Plainview (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Plainview is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview Allegheny County
Bloomfield (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
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 Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Westwood Village (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Westwood Village is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Village Good Hope (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Good Hope is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope Enola (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
New Kingstown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Sporting Hill (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Sporting Hill is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sporting Hill Middlesex (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Middlesex is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Mechanicsburg (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Roxbury (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Roxbury is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury Trindle Springs (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Trindle Springs is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trindle Springs Shiremanstown (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Shiremanstown is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiremanstown Population from the 2020 Census: 1,641 people
West Fairview (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
West Fairview is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fairview Schlusser (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Schlusser is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schlusser Camp Hill (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Dauphin County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Fort Hunter (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Fort Hunter is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hunter Dauphin (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Lucknow (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
Lucknow is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucknow Harrisburg (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Hillside Village (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Hillside Village is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Village Stone Glen (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Stone Glen is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Glen Edgemont (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Penbrook (11 miles [17.7 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
Halifax (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Bloomburg Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Bloomburg Village is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomburg Village Old Colonial Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Old Colonial Village is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Colonial Village Paxtang (12 miles [19.3 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
Progress (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
Progress is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Progress Juniata County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Locust Run (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Locust Run is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Run Thompsontown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
Seven Stars (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Seven Stars is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Stars Mexico (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Mexico is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexico Knousetown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Knousetown is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knousetown Old Port (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Old Port is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Port Port Royal (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
Swales (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Swales is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swales McAlisterville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Mifflin (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Mifflin is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mifflin Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Mifflintown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Richfield (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Doyles Mills (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Doyles Mills is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyles Mills Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Falmouth (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Falmouth is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falmouth Aberdeen (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Aberdeen is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Elizabethtown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Billmeyer ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Billmeyer is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Billmeyer Rheems (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Rheems is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rheems Milton Grove (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Milton Grove is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milton Grove Maytown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Campbelltown (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Palmyra (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Syner (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Syner is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Syner Fort Indiantown Gap (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Fort Indiantown Gap is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Indiantown Gap Green Point (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Green Point is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Point Annville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Lawn (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Colebrook (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Colebrook is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colebrook Fontana (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Fontana is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontana Inwood (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Inwood is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood Lickdale (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Lickdale is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lickdale Bunker Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Bunker Hill is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill Cleona (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
Mifflin County
Paintersville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Paintersville is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paintersville Northumberland County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Malta (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Malta is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta Mandata (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Mandata is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandata Herndon (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Schuylkill County
Klingerstown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Snyder County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Aline (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Aline is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline Hoffer (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
Hoffer is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffer McKees Half Falls (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
McKees Half Falls is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKees Half Falls Chapman (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Chapman is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Shadle (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
Shadle is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadle Mount Pleasant Mills (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Pallas (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Pallas is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pallas Port Trevorton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Beavertown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Dundore (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Dundore is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundore McClure (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Beaver Springs (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Beaver Springs is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Springs Freeburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Freeburg is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburg Population from the 2020 Census: 566 people
York County
The following are listed by their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
New Market (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
New Market is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market Rudytown ‑ Historic(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Rudytown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudytown Siddonsburg (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Siddonsburg is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siddonsburg Andersontown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
Andersontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andersontown Nauvoo (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
Nauvoo is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nauvoo Dillsburg (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Marsh Run (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Marsh Run is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marsh Run Lewisberry (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Redland Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Redland Village is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redland Village Quaker Village (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Quaker Village is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Village Mount Top (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Mount Top is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Top Uniontown (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Uniontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown Valley Green (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Valley Green is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Green
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Keystone, see our County-by-County Page for Keystone .
Cemeteries Near Keystone ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Keystone.
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 Keystone - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Keystone covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Oak Grove Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the east)
Mt. Zion UMC Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Highland Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Evergreen Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Sitterley Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Duncannon Presbyterian Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
War of 1812 Memorial Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Enola Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enola Cemetery The Enola Cemetery has also been known as:
Brick Church Cemetery Zion Evangelical Church Cemetery Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2206443 <2>
Perry Heights Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Chestnut Grove Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Snyders Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snyders Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Snyders Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Mecks Corner . Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1978059 <2>
Longsdorf Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Continue List (189 more) ...
Zion Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Letort Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letort Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, 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>
St. Johns 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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Keystone had a population of 304 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Keystone, with the one closest to Keystone listed first.
Wertzville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Wertzville is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wertzville Cove (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Cove is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Dellville (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
Dellville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellville Hogestown (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Hogestown is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogestown Good Hope (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Good Hope is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope Perdix (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Perdix is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perdix Benvenue (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Benvenue is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benvenue Duncannon (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Carlisle Springs (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Carlisle Springs is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlisle Springs New Kingstown (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Enola (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Marysville (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Continue List (14 more) ...
Shermans Dale (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Middlesex (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Middlesex is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Dillsburg Junction (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Dillsburg Junction is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillsburg Junction
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Keystone. See our List of 1890's Communities around Keystone .
Newspapers Published in Keystone ...
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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Keystone.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Keystone, there are papers which were published within 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Keystone.
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 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 Keystone:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Perry County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adams County Allegheny County Cumberland County Dauphin County Juniata County Lancaster County Lebanon County Mifflin County Northumberland County Schuylkill County Snyder County York County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Keystone. 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 . 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Keystone) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. 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 Keystone, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.