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 Roseburg (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 Roseburg. 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 hospitals and 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.
Roseburg 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 Roseburg. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Roseburg:
Perry County (The home county of Roseburg)
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Eshcol (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Eshcol is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eshcol Ickesburg (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Ickesburg is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ickesburg Elliottsburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Elliottsburg is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliottsburg Landisburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Bixler (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Bixler is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bixler Kistler (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Kistler is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kistler Blain (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Alinda (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Alinda is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alinda Centre (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Centre is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centre Cisna Run (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Cisna Run is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cisna Run Falling Spring (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Falling Spring is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falling Spring Mecks Corner (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Mecks Corner is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecks Corner Newport (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Adams County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Latimore (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Latimore is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latimore Gardners (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Gargol (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Gargol is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gargol Idaville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Idaville is located in Adams County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idaville Allegheny County
Bloomfield (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Bloomfield is located in Allegheny County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield Population from the 2020 Census: 1,255 people
Centre County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Ingleby (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Ingleby is located in Centre County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleby Potters Mills (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Potters Mills is located in Centre County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potters Mills Coburn (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Zerby (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Zerby is located in Centre County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zerby Fruittown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Fruittown is located in Centre County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruittown Centre Hill (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Centre Hill is located in Centre County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centre Hill Cumberland County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Caprivi (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Caprivi is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caprivi Bears Crossroads (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Bears Crossroads is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bears Crossroads Plainfield (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Schlusser (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Schlusser is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schlusser Middlesex (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
Middlesex is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Newville (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Carlisle (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
Washington (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
Washington is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washington New Kingstown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Big Spring (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Big Spring is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Spring Good Hope (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Good Hope is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Good Hope Barnitz (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
Barnitz is located in Cumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnitz Boiling Springs (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Dauphin County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Dauphin (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Halifax (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Millersburg (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Fisherville (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Fisherville is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisherville Fort Hunter (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Fort Hunter is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hunter Stone Glen (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Stone Glen is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone Glen Paxton (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
Paxton is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxton Lucknow (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Lucknow is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucknow Rife (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
Rife is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rife Enders (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Enders is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enders Enterline (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Enterline is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterline Harrisburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Hillside Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
Hillside Village is located in Dauphin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Village Franklin County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Concord (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Concord is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord Doylestown (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Doylestown is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doylestown Mowersville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Mowersville is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mowersville Roxbury (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Roxbury is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury Dry Run (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Dry Run is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Run Newbridge (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Newbridge is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newbridge Orrstown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Huntingdon County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Blairs Mills (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Blairs Mills is located in Huntingdon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairs Mills Aughwick (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
Aughwick is located in Huntingdon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aughwick Mount Union (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Ennisville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Ennisville is located in Huntingdon County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ennisville Shirleysburg (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Juniata County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Mexico (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Mexico is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexico Old Port (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Old Port is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Port Port Royal (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Locust Run (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Locust Run is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Run Mifflintown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Thompsontown (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Mifflin (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Mifflin is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mifflin Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
Doyles Mills (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Doyles Mills is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyles Mills McAlisterville (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
McCullochs Mills (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
McCullochs Mills is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCullochs Mills Reeds Gap (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
Reeds Gap is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds Gap Swales (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
Swales is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swales East Rutherford (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
East Rutherford is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Rutherford Mifflin County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Paintersville (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Paintersville is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paintersville Alfarata (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Alfarata is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfarata Juniata Terrace (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Juniata Terrace is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniata Terrace Population from the 2020 Census: 533 people
Lewistown Junction (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Lewistown Junction is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewistown Junction Lewistown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
Burnham (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Highland Park (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
Highland Park is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Park Anderson (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Anderson is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson Yeagertown (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
Honey Creek (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Honey Creek is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honey Creek Lumber City (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Lumber City is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lumber City Reedsville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Kishacoquillas (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
Kishacoquillas is located in Mifflin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kishacoquillas Northumberland County
Malta (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Malta is located in Northumberland County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta Snyder County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
McClure (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
Bannerville (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
Bannerville is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bannerville Beaver Springs (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Beaver Springs is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Springs Middle Creek (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
Middle Creek is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middle Creek Beavertown (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Benfer (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
Benfer is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benfer Aline (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
Aline is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline Troxelville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
Troxelville is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troxelville Mount Pleasant Mills (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Shadle (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Shadle is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shadle Hoffer (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Hoffer is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffer McKees Half Falls (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
McKees Half Falls is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKees Half Falls Paxtonville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
Paxtonville is located in Snyder County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paxtonville Union County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Cherry Run (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
Cherry Run is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Run Pardee (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
Pardee is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pardee Glen Iron (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Glen Iron is located in Union County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Iron York County
The following are listed by their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Rudytown ‑ Historic(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Rudytown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudytown Siddonsburg (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Siddonsburg is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siddonsburg Andersontown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Andersontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Andersontown Dillsburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
New Market (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
New Market is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Market Uniontown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Uniontown is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown Nauvoo (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
Nauvoo is located in York County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nauvoo
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Roseburg, see our County-by-County Page for Roseburg .
Cemeteries Near Roseburg ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Roseburg.
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 Roseburg - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Roseburg covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Eshcol Memorial Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Restland Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
Kilmer Cemetery (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Emory Chapel Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Church Hill Cemetery (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Landisburg Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
Bull Hill Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Bookwalter Cemetery (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Diven Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
St. Paul Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
Union Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Locust Run Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Run Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Locust Run Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Locust Run . Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #45311 <2>
Continue List (188 more) ...
Cedar Grove Cemetery (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove Cemetery To give a relative sense of its location, the Cedar Grove Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> Mifflintown . Rothrock Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Adams Cemetery (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
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 Roseburg had a population of 96 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Roseburg, with the one closest to Roseburg listed first.
Eshcol (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Eshcol is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eshcol Ickesburg (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
Ickesburg is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ickesburg Mannsville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Mannsville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mannsville Saville (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Saville is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saville Elliottsburg (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Elliottsburg is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elliottsburg Tuscarora (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
Tuscarora is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuscarora Kistler (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Kistler is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kistler Bixler (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Bixler is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bixler Landisburg (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Port Royal (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
Vandyke (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Vandyke is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vandyke Spruce Hill (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
Spruce Hill is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spruce Hill Continue List (18 more) ...
Mexico (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Mexico is located in Juniata County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexico Cisna Run (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Cisna Run is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cisna Run Centre (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Centre is located in Perry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centre
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Roseburg. See our List of 1890's Communities around Roseburg .
Newspapers Published in Roseburg ...
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 79 newspapers that have been published in the area around Roseburg.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Roseburg, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Roseburg.
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 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 Roseburg:
Websites specific to Pennsylvania Pages specific to Perry County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Adams County Allegheny County Centre County Cumberland County Dauphin County Franklin County Huntingdon County Juniata County Mifflin County Northumberland 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 Roseburg. 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Roseburg) 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 Roseburg, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.