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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 Mecks Corner (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 Mecks Corner. 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 Mecks Corner ...

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.

  • A typical abbreviation for Mecks Corner: Mecks Cor. (or less commonly used: Mecks Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Mecks Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Mecks Corner may originally have been Meck's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Mecks Corner might be written as Meck Corner.

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 northwest 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 north.

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 north 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.

Mecks Corner is located in Perry 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 Perry County: Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Juniata & Northumberland.

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

  • Perry County     (The home county of Mecks Corner)
  • Adams County
  • Allegheny County
    • Bloomfield
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bloomfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
      • Bloomfield is located in Allegheny County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,255 people
  • Cumberland County
  • Dauphin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mecks Corner, with the one closest to Mecks Corner listed first.
    • Dauphin
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Fort Hunter
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Halifax
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Halifax have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halifax
      • Halifax is located in Dauphin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 885 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Halifax <3>
    • Stone Glen
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Fisherville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Millersburg
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Millersburg have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millersburg
      • Millersburg is located in Dauphin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,514 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Millersburg <3>
    • Harrisburg
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Hillside Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillside Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Village
      • Hillside Village is located in Dauphin County
    • Enterline
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Edgemont
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Old Colonial Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Colonial Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Colonial Village
      • Old Colonial Village is located in Dauphin County
    • Enders
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Penbrook
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Penbrook have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Penbrook
      • Penbrook is located in Dauphin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,976 people
  • Franklin County
  • Juniata County
  • Lancaster County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mecks Corner, with the one closest to Mecks Corner listed first.
    • Falmouth
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Falmouth. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falmouth
      • Falmouth is located in Lancaster County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Falmouth
      • From Mecks Corner to Falmouth
    • Aberdeen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Lebanon County
  • Mifflin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mecks Corner, with the one closest to Mecks Corner listed first.
    • Paintersville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Alfarata
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alfarata. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfarata
      • Alfarata is located in Mifflin County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Alfarata
      • From Mecks Corner to Alfarata
    • Juniata Terrace
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Juniata Terrace have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniata Terrace
      • Juniata Terrace is located in Mifflin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 533 people
    • Lewistown Junction
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lewistown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Burnham
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Burnham have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnham
      • Burnham is located in Mifflin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,984 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Burnham <3>
    • Highland Park
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Anderson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Anderson. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
      • Anderson is located in Mifflin County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Anderson
      • From Mecks Corner to Anderson
    • Yeagertown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Honey Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Lumber City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lumber City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumber City
      • Lumber City is located in Mifflin County
    • Reedsville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Northumberland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mecks Corner, with the one closest to Mecks Corner listed first.
    • Malta
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Mandata
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mandata. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mandata
      • Mandata is located in Northumberland County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Mandata
      • From Mecks Corner to Mandata
    • Herndon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Herndon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
      • Herndon is located in Northumberland County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 299 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Herndon <3>
  • Schuylkill County
    • Klingerstown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Klingerstown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klingerstown
      • Klingerstown is located in Schuylkill County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Klingerstown <3>
  • Snyder County
  • York County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mecks Corner, with the one closest to Mecks Corner listed first.
    • Rudytown ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rudytown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudytown
      • Rudytown is located in York County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Rudytown
      • From Mecks Corner to Rudytown
    • Andersontown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Siddonsburg
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Nauvoo
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Dillsburg
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dillsburg have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillsburg
      • Dillsburg is located in York County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,579 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dillsburg <3>
    • Marsh Run
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Uniontown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Uniontown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
      • Uniontown is located in York County
    • Lewisberry
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Redland Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Redland Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redland Village
      • Redland Village is located in York County
    • Mount Top
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Quaker Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quaker Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Village
      • Quaker Village is located in York County
    • Valley Green
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Alpine
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alpine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
      • Alpine is located in York County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Alpine
      • From Mecks Corner to Alpine

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

Cemeteries Near Mecks Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mecks Corner.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mecks Corner, with the one closest to Mecks Corner 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.<6>

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

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

  • Dellville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dellville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dellville
    • Dellville is located in Perry County
  • Blain
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blain have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blain
    • Blain is located in Perry County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blain <3>
  • New Bloomfield
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for New Bloomfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Bloomfield
    • New Bloomfield is located in Perry County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for New Bloomfield <3>
  • Bloomfield
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bloomfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
    • Bloomfield is located in Allegheny County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,255 people
  • Falling Spring
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Falling Spring have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring
    • Falling Spring is located in Perry County
  • Shermans Dale
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shermans Dale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shermans Dale
    • Shermans Dale is located in Perry County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shermans Dale <3>
  • Wahneta
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wahneta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahneta
    • Wahneta is located in Perry County
  • Keystone
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Keystone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
    • Keystone is located in Perry County
  • Duncannon
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Duncannon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncannon
    • Duncannon is located in Perry County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,481 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Duncannon <3>
  • Newport
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Alinda
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Benvenue
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Benvenue have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benvenue
    • Benvenue is located in Dauphin County
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Losh Run
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Losh Run have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Losh Run
      • Losh Run is located in Perry County
    • Bailey
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Mannsville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mannsville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville
      • Mannsville is located in Perry County

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

Newspapers Published in Mecks Corner ...

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 182 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mecks Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mecks Corner, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<7>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mecks Corner.

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 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 Mecks Corner:

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

The official website for Perry County: www.perryco.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<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>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.
<5>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.
<6>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 Mecks Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<7>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- Mecks Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mecks Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3862, Longitude: -77.1429    









 

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