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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 Art (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 Art. 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.

Art is located in Mason 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 Mason County: Gillespie, Kimble, Llano, McCulloch, Menard & San Saba.

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

  • Mason County     (The home county of Art)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Art, with the one closest to Art listed first.
    • Hedwigs Hill ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Hedwigs Hill is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwigs Hill
    • Mason
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Koockville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Koockville is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koockville
    • Hilda
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Hilda is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilda
    • Loyal Valley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Loyal Valley is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal Valley
    • Grit
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Grit is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grit
    • Fredonia
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Pontotoc
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Streeter
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Streeter is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Streeter
  • Gillespie County
  • Kimble County
  • Llano County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Art, with the one closest to Art listed first.
    • Castell
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Valley Spring
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Llano
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Baby Head ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Baby Head is located in Llano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Head
  • McCulloch County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Art, with the one closest to Art listed first.
    • Voca
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Camp San Saba
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Camp San Saba is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp San Saba
    • Calf Creek ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Calf Creek is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calf Creek
    • Brady
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Brady is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brady
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,178 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brady <1>
  • Menard County
  • San Saba County

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

Cemeteries Near Art ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Art.

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

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

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

  • East Art Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • West Art Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Leifeste Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Vater Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Martin Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Lower Willow Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bauer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Ellison Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Kothmann Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Polk Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Kothmann Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Eaton Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (81 more) ...
    • Fly Gap Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jones Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • New Gooch Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)

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>

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

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

  • Hedwigs Hill ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Hedwigs Hill is located in Mason County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwigs Hill
  • Mason
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Castell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Loyal Valley
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Loyal Valley is located in Mason County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal Valley
  • Fredonia
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Field Creek
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Field Creek is located in Llano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Creek
  • Pontotoc
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Katemcy
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Katemcy is located in Mason County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Katemcy
  • Streeter
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Streeter is located in Mason County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Streeter
  • Voca
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Camp San Saba
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Camp San Saba is located in McCulloch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp San Saba
  • Valley Spring
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Oxford ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Oxford is located in Llano County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
    • Llano
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • London
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Art ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Art.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Art, 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 Art.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Art:

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 Art, 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 from Point A (ie- Art) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.