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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 Alamo Beach (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 Alamo Beach. 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 Alamo Beach ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Alamo Beach: Alamo Bch.

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 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.

Alamo Beach is located in Calhoun County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Calhoun County: Jackson, Matagorda, Refugio & Victoria.

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

  • Calhoun County     (The home county of Alamo Beach)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alamo Beach, with the one closest to Alamo Beach listed first.
    • Port Lavaca
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Point Comfort
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Indianola
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Indianola is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indianola
    • Kamey
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Kamey is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kamey
    • Port Alto
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Port Alto is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Alto
    • Long Mott
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Seadrift
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Port O'Connor
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Heyser
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Heyser is located in Calhoun County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heyser
  • Aransas County
    • Spanish Village
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Spanish Village is located in Aransas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Village
  • Jackson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alamo Beach, with the one closest to Alamo Beach listed first.
    • Weedhaven
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Weedhaven is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weedhaven
    • La Salle
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Vanderbilt
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Lolita
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • La Ward
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Francitas
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Matilda
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Matilda is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matilda
    • Edna
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Edna is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,755 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edna <1>
  • Matagorda County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alamo Beach, with the one closest to Alamo Beach listed first.
    • Palacios
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Collegeport
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Blessing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Refugio County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alamo Beach, with the one closest to Alamo Beach listed first.
    • Austwell
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Tivoli
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Victoria County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alamo Beach, with the one closest to Alamo Beach listed first.
    • Placedo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bloomington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Dacosta
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Dacosta is located in Victoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dacosta
    • Inez
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • McFaddin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Hughes ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Hughes is located in Victoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hughes
    • Telferner
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Victoria
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Alamo Beach ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Alamo Beach.

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 Alamo Beach - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Alamo Beach, with the one closest to Alamo Beach listed first.

  • Ranger Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Port Lavaca Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Little Mary's Grave
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Zimmerman Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Old Town Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Indianola Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Clark Family Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Clark Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Hatch Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatch Cemetery
    • The Hatch Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Aqua Dulce Cemetery
    • Chocolate Creek Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2278995 <2>
  • Greenlawn Gardens Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Six Mile Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Seadrift Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (34 more) ...

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>

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

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

  • Port Lavaca
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Long Mott
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Seadrift
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Placedo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Guadalupe
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Guadalupe is located in Victoria County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guadalupe
  • Inez
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • El Toro
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • El Toro is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Toro
  • Edna
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Edna is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,755 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Edna <1>
  • Victoria
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Alamo Beach ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Alamo Beach.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Alamo Beach, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Alamo Beach.

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 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 Alamo Beach:

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>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Alamo Beach) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Alamo Beach, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.