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 Losh Run (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 Losh Run. 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 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.
Losh Run 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 Losh Run. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Losh Run:
Perry County (The home county of Losh Run)
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Bailey (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Bailey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey New Buffalo (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
New Buffalo is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Buffalo Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
Duncannon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Rose Glen (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
Rose Glen is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Glen Newport (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Reward (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Reward is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reward Cove (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Cove is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Perdix (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Perdix is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perdix Mecks Corner (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Mecks Corner is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecks Corner Liverpool (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Blain (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
Marysville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Adams County
Latimore (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
Latimore is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimore Allegheny County
Bloomfield (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
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 Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Westwood Village (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Westwood Village is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Village Enola (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
Good Hope (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Good Hope is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope West Fairview (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
West Fairview is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Fairview Camp Hill (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
New Kingstown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Sporting Hill (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
Sporting Hill is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sporting Hill Wormleysburg (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Mechanicsburg (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Middlesex (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Middlesex is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Lemoyne (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Schlusser (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
Schlusser is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schlusser Dauphin County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Halifax (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Millersburg (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Dauphin (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Fisherville (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
Fisherville is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisherville Enders (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Enders is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enders Enterline (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Enterline is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterline Fort Hunter (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Fort Hunter is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hunter Stone Glen (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Stone Glen is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Glen Paxton (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Paxton is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton Rife (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Rife is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rife Lucknow (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Lucknow is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucknow Elizabethville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Juniata County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Seven Stars (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Seven Stars is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Stars Thompsontown (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
Knousetown (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Knousetown is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knousetown Locust Run (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
Locust Run is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Run Richfield (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
McAlisterville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Swales (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Swales is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swales Mexico (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Mexico is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexico Old Port (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Old Port is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Port Port Royal (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
Mifflintown (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Mifflin (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
Mifflin is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mifflin Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Lancaster County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Aberdeen (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Aberdeen is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Falmouth (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Falmouth is located in Lancaster County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falmouth Elizabethtown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Lebanon County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Fort Indiantown Gap (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Fort Indiantown Gap is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Indiantown Gap Green Point (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Green Point is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Point 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 Gold Mine (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Gold Mine is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Mine Inwood (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Inwood is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood Murray (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Murray is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray Campbelltown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Lickdale (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Lickdale is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lickdale Annville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Bunker Hill (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Bunker Hill is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill Heilmandale (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Heilmandale is located in Lebanon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heilmandale Mifflin County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Paintersville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Paintersville is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paintersville Alfarata (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Alfarata is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfarata Burnham (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Highland Park (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Highland Park is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park Juniata Terrace (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Juniata Terrace is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniata Terrace Population from the 2020 Census: 533 people
Lewistown Junction (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Lewistown Junction is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown Junction Lewistown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Northumberland County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Malta (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Malta is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta Mandata (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
Mandata is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandata Herndon (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Selinsgrove Junction (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Selinsgrove Junction is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selinsgrove Junction Asherton (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Asherton is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asherton Leck Kill (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Leck Kill is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leck Kill Mile Run (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Mile Run is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mile Run Augustaville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Augustaville is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Augustaville Trevorton (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Farnsworth (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Farnsworth is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farnsworth Sunbury (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
Schuylkill County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Klingerstown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Tower City (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Rough and Ready (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Rough and Ready is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rough and Ready Orwin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Orwin is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orwin Valley View (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
Suedberg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Suedberg is located in Schuylkill County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Suedberg Snyder County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Aline (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Aline is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline McKees Half Falls (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
McKees Half Falls is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKees Half Falls Hoffer (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
Hoffer is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffer Shadle (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Shadle is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadle Chapman (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
Chapman is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapman Mount Pleasant Mills (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Pallas (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Pallas is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pallas Port Trevorton (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Dundore (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Dundore is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundore Beavertown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Freeburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Freeburg is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeburg Population from the 2020 Census: 566 people
Paxtonville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
Paxtonville is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxtonville Union County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Glen Iron (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Glen Iron is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Iron Dry Valley Crossroads (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Laurelton (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Laurelton is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laurelton Millmont (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Pardee (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Pardee is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pardee York County
The following are listed by their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
New Market (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
New Market is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market Rudytown ‑ Historic(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Rudytown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudytown Andersontown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Andersontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andersontown Nauvoo (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Nauvoo is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nauvoo Siddonsburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Siddonsburg is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siddonsburg Marsh Run (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Marsh Run is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marsh Run Redland Village (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Redland Village is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redland Village Lewisberry (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Dillsburg (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Quaker Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Quaker Village is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Village Valley Green (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Valley Green is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Green Goldsboro (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Goldsboro is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsboro Population from the 2020 Census: 938 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Losh Run, see our County-by-County Page for Losh Run .
Cemeteries Near Losh Run ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Losh Run.
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 Losh Run - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Losh Run covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Duncannon Presbyterian Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Evergreen Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Highland Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Mitchell Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Snyders Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
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>
St. Matthew Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Matthew Cemetery The St. Matthew Cemetery has also been known as:
St. Matthew Lutheran Church Cemetery Zion Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Newport Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Reward UMC Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Oak Hill Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Deardorff Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
Oak Grove Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
Continue List (181 more) ...
Riverview Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
Sitterley Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
Pfoutz Valley Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pfoutz Valley Cemetery The Pfoutz Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
Pfoutz Valley UMC Cemetery
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 in 1895, Losh Run had railroad service and no post office.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Losh Run, with the one closest to Losh Run listed first.
Bailey (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Bailey is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey Benvenue (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
Benvenue is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benvenue New Buffalo (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
New Buffalo is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Buffalo Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
Acker (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Acker is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acker Duncannon (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Montgomery Ferry (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Montgomery Ferry is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery Ferry Halifax (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
Mount Patrick (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
Mount Patrick is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Patrick Newport (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
Dellville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Dellville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellville Reward (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Reward is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reward Cove (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Cove is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove Continue List (21 more) ...
Perdix (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Perdix is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Perdix Dauphin (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Millersburg (7 miles [11.3 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 Losh Run. See our List of 1890's Communities around Losh Run .
Newspapers Published in Losh Run ...
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 178 newspapers that have been published in the area around Losh Run.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Losh Run, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Losh Run.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Losh Run:
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 Union County York County Cemetery Information and Directories for Pennsylvania Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Losh Run. 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Losh Run) 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 Losh Run, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.