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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 Corinth (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 Corinth. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Corinth is located in Jones 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 Jones County: Callahan, Fisher, Haskell, Nolan, Shackelford, Stonewall & Taylor.

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

  • Jones County     (The home county of Corinth)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Corinth, with the one closest to Corinth listed first.
    • Anson
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Tuxedo
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Tuxedo is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuxedo
    • Radium
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Radium is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
    • Avoca
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Funston
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Funston is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
    • Lueders
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Hawley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Fort Phantom Hill ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Phantom Hill
    • Stith
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Stith is located in Jones County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stith
  • Fisher County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Corinth, with the one closest to Corinth listed first.
    • Hamlin
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • McCaulley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
    • Sylvester
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Royston
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Royston is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royston
    • Roby
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Corinth, with the one closest to Corinth listed first.
    • Stamford
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Plainview
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Plainview is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plainview
    • Sagerton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Haskell
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Rule
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Rule is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rule
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 611 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rule <1>
    • Jud ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Jud is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jud
  • Stonewall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Corinth, with the one closest to Corinth listed first.
    • Flat Top
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Flat Top is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat Top
    • Old Glory
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Aspermont
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Corinth, with the one closest to Corinth listed first.
    • Impact
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Impact is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Impact
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
    • Merkel
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Tye
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Tye is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tye
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tye <1>
    • Hamby
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Hamby is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamby
    • Abilene
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Trent
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Corinth ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Corinth.

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

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

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

  • Mt. Hope Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Spring Creek Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Capron Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Anderson Chapel Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Stamford Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Central Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Hamlin Memorial Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin Memorial Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hamlin Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Hamlin.
    • The Hamlin Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • East Cemetery
    • Hamlin East Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3335 <2>
  • Truby Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Lueders Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (30 more) ...
    • North Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • North Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Hawley Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)

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 Corinth in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Corinth.

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

  • Anson
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Neinda
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Neinda is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
  • Phantom Hill
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phantom Hill
  • Hitson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Hitson is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
  • Haskell
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Merkel
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Aspermont
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Trent
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Abilene
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Corinth ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Corinth.

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

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 Corinth:

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 '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- Corinth) 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 Corinth, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.