RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of Texas >> Harris County >> Aldine >> Genealogy HelperIndex...

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 Aldine (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 Aldine. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Aldine is located in Harris 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 Harris County: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery & Waller.

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

  • Harris County     (The home county of Aldine)
  • Brazoria County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aldine, with the one closest to Aldine listed first.
    • Brookside Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Pearland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • West Oaks Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • West Oaks Village is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Oaks Village
    • Fairway Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Fairway Village is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairway Village
    • Westwood Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Westwood Village is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Village
    • Woodcreek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Manvel
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Manvel is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manvel
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,867 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manvel <1>
    • Iowa Colony
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Iowa Colony is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iowa Colony
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,888 people
  • Chambers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aldine, with the one closest to Aldine listed first.
    • Baytown
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Shoreacres
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Shoreacres is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoreacres
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,578 people
  • Fort Bend County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aldine, with the one closest to Aldine listed first.
    • Meadows Place
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadows Place is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows Place
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,813 people
    • Meadows
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadows is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows
    • Mission Bend
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Mission Bend is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bend
    • Missouri City Estates
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Missouri City Estates is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri City Estates
    • Clodine
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Stafford
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Town West
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Town West is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town West
    • Fifth Street
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Fifth Street is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fifth Street
    • West Oaks Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • West Oaks Village is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Oaks Village
    • Missouri City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Cinco Ranch
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Cinco Ranch is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cinco Ranch
    • Sugar Land
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Dewalt
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Galveston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aldine, with the one closest to Aldine listed first.
    • Quaker Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Quaker Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Village
    • Friendswood
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Parkwood Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Parkwood Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkwood Village
    • Carmel Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Carmel Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmel Village
  • Liberty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aldine, with the one closest to Aldine listed first.
    • Gum Grove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Plum Grove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Plum Grove is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 756 people
    • Stilson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Montgomery County

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

Cemeteries Near Aldine ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Aldine.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Aldine, with the one closest to Aldine 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Aldine had railroad service and no post office.

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

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Aldine:

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>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 Aldine, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.