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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 Rowland (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 Rowland. 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 northwest 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 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.

Rowland is located in Warren County.

To see how the shape of Tennessee's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Warren County: Cannon, Coffee, DeKalb, Grundy, Sequatchie, Van Buren & White.

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

  • Warren County     (The home county of Rowland)
  • Bledsoe County
  • Cannon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland listed first.
    • Woods
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Thomas Town ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Thomas Town is located in Cannon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas Town
    • Bluewing
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Manus Town ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Manus Town is located in Cannon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manus Town
    • Gassaway
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Woodbury
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Burgen
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Burt
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Hollow Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Hollow Springs is located in Cannon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollow Springs
      • Estimated population in 2014: 706 people
    • Auburntown
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Auburntown is located in Cannon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburntown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 266 people
    • Bradyville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Coffee County
  • Cumberland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland listed first.
    • Newton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Newton is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
      • Estimated population in 2014: 2,968 people
      • Newton has also been known as:
      • Peay
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Newton
      • From Rowland to Newton
    • Todd Town
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Todd Town is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todd Town
    • Erasmus
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Mount Gilead ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Mount Gilead is located in Cumberland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Gilead
    • Neverfail ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • DeKalb County
  • Grundy County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland listed first.
    • Beersheba Springs
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Beersheba Springs is located in Grundy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beersheba Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 461 people
    • Altamont
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Gruetli - Laager
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Gruetli
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Gruetli is located in Grundy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gruetli
      • Estimated population in 2014: 1,775 people
    • Coalmont
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Coalmont is located in Grundy County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coalmont
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 842 people
    • Palmer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Putnam County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland listed first.
    • Burton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Boiling Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Ditty
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Burgess
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Huntland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Huntland is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntland
      • Estimated population in 2014: 860 people
    • Boma
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Southtown Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Southtown Village is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southtown Village
    • Burnett
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Burnett is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burnett
      • Estimated population in 2014: 418 people
    • Baxter
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Cookeville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Lafayette
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Lafayette is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lafayette
      • Estimated population in 2014: 4,962 people
    • Pekin ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Pekin is located in Putnam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pekin
      • Estimated population in 2014: 2,114 people
  • Rutherford County
  • Sequatchie County
  • Van Buren County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland listed first.
    • Bone Cave
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Laurelburg
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Sopha ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Sopha is located in Van Buren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sopha
      • Estimated population in 2014: 3,104 people
    • Meade ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Meade is located in Van Buren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meade
    • Spencer
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Cummingsville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Sweetgum
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Chalybeate
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Chalybeate is located in Van Buren County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalybeate
  • White County
  • Wilson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland listed first.
    • Cottage Home
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Cottage Home is located in Wilson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottage Home
      • Estimated population in 2014: 88 people
    • Round Top
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Rowland ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rowland.

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 Rowland - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rowland covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rowland, with the one closest to Rowland 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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Rowland had a post office and railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Rowland ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rowland.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rowland, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rowland.

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 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 Rowland:

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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 Rowland, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rowland) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.