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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 Crume Gin (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 Crume Gin. 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 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.

Crume Gin is located in Floyd 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 Floyd County: Briscoe, Crosby, Dickens, Hale, Lubbock, Motley & Swisher.

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

  • Floyd County     (The home county of Crume Gin)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crume Gin, with the one closest to Crume Gin listed first.
    • Sterley ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Sterley is located in Floyd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sterley
    • Aiken
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Lockney
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • South Plains
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Della Plain ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Della Plain is located in Floyd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Della Plain
    • Cedar Hill
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Cedar Hill is located in Floyd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Hill
    • Floydada
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Gray Mule ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Gray Mule is located in Floyd County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gray Mule
  • Briscoe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crume Gin, with the one closest to Crume Gin listed first.
    • Whitney
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Whitney is located in Briscoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
    • Silverton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Quitaque
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Hale County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crume Gin, with the one closest to Crume Gin listed first.
    • Seth Ward
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Seth Ward is located in Hale County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seth Ward
    • Plainview
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Edmonson
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Hale Center
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Hale City ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Hale City is located in Hale County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
    • Petersburg
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Motley County
  • Swisher County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Crume Gin, with the one closest to Crume Gin listed first.
    • Claytonville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Claytonville is located in Swisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
    • Kress
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Tulia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Tulia is located in Swisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,606 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulia <1>
    • Vigo Park
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Crume Gin ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Crume Gin.

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 Crume Gin - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • IOOF Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Plainview Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Plainview Memorial Park
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Wright Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Kress Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Silverton Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Floydada Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Rushing Chapel Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Milo Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Rose Hill Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Halfway Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Hale Center Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Gray Mule Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Petersburg Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Petersburg Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Petersburg.
      • The Petersburg Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Veterans Memorial Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #150702 <2>
    • Keeter Graves
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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>

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

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

  • Lockney
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Plainview
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Della Plain ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Della Plain is located in Floyd County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Della Plain
  • Silverton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Floydada
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hale City ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Hale City is located in Hale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hale City
  • Tulia
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Tulia is located in Swisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulia
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,606 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulia <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Crume Gin ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Crume Gin.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Crume Gin, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Crume Gin.

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 helpful 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 Crume Gin:

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 Crume Gin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Crume Gin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.