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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 Little Meadows (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 Little Meadows. 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 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.

Little Meadows is located in Susquehanna 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 Susquehanna County: Broome (NY), Tioga (NY), Bradford, Lackawanna, Wayne & Wyoming.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Little Meadows ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Meadows.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Little Meadows, with the one closest to Little Meadows 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Little Meadows had a population of 163 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Little Meadows had a population of 245 people.

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

  • Warrenham
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warrenham have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warrenham
    • Warrenham is located in Bradford County
  • South Apalachin
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Apalachin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Apalachin
    • South Apalachin is located in Tioga County (NY)
  • Tracy Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tracy Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tracy Creek
    • Tracy Creek is located in Broome County (NY)
  • Warren Center
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • South Owego
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Apalachin
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Apalachin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apalachin
    • Apalachin is located in Tioga County (NY)
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Apalachin <3>
  • Cadis
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cadis have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadis
    • Cadis is located in Bradford County
  • Friendsville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friendsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendsville
    • Friendsville is located in Susquehanna County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Friendsville <3>
  • Choconut
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Choconut. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Choconut
    • Choconut is located in Susquehanna County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Choconut
    • From Little Meadows to Choconut
  • Campville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • West Warren
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • South Warren
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...
    • East Nichols
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Saint Joseph
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Joseph have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Joseph
      • Saint Joseph is located in Susquehanna County
    • Windham
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Windham have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windham
      • Windham is located in Bradford County

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

Newspapers Published in Little Meadows ...

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 73 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Meadows.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Little Meadows, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Little Meadows.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Little Meadows:

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

The official website for Susquehanna County: www.susquehanna.pa.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Little Meadows, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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- Little Meadows) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Little Meadows. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.9904, Longitude: -76.1312    









 

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