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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 Cumings (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 Cumings. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Cumings is located in Fort Bend 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 Fort Bend County: Austin, Brazoria, Harris, Waller & Wharton.

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

  • Fort Bend County     (The home county of Cumings)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cumings, with the one closest to Cumings listed first.
    • Richmond
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Rosenberg
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Harlem
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Harlem is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
    • Pecan Grove
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Pecan Grove is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pecan Grove
    • Greatwood Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Greatwood Village is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greatwood Village
    • Pleak
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Pleak is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleak
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,762 people
    • Greatwood
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Greatwood is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greatwood
    • New Territory
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • New Territory is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Territory
    • Booth
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Fulshear
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Beasley
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Fairchilds
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Fairchilds is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairchilds
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,359 people
  • Austin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cumings, with the one closest to Cumings listed first.
    • Wallis
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Brazos Country
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Brazos Country is located in Austin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brazos Country
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
    • Frydek
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Frydek is located in Austin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frydek
    • San Felipe
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Sealy
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Rexville ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Rexville is located in Austin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rexville
  • Brazoria County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cumings, with the one closest to Cumings listed first.
    • Damon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Lochridge
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Lochridge is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lochridge
    • Sandy Point
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Sandy Point is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Point
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 238 people
    • Iowa Colony
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Iowa Colony is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iowa Colony
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,888 people
    • Rosharon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Fairway Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Fairway Village is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairway Village
    • Manvel
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • 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>
    • Bonney
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Bonney is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonney
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 380 people
    • Brookside Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • West Oaks Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • West Oaks Village is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Oaks Village
    • Danciger
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Chenango
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Chenango is located in Brazoria County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chenango
  • Harris County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cumings, with the one closest to Cumings listed first.
    • Catalina Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Catalina Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catalina Village
    • Westpark Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Westpark Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westpark Village
    • Westlake Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Westlake Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westlake Village
    • Westlake
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Westlake is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westlake
    • Alief
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Ashford Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Ashford Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashford Village
    • Barker
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Brays Village East
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Brays Village East is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brays Village East
    • Parkway Villages
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Parkway Villages is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkway Villages
    • Addicks
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Addicks is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Addicks
    • Deerfield Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Deerfield Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield Village
    • Buckner Haven
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Buckner Haven is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckner Haven
  • Matagorda County
  • Waller County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cumings, with the one closest to Cumings listed first.
    • Brookshire
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Pattison
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Clemons
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Clemons is located in Waller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clemons
  • Wharton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cumings, with the one closest to Cumings listed first.
    • East Bernard
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Hungerford
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Nottawa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Nottawa is located in Wharton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nottawa
    • Boling
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Newgulf
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Wharton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lissie
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Glen Flora
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Lane City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Egypt
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Mackay
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Mackay is located in Wharton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackay
    • Bonus
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Bonus is located in Wharton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonus

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

Cemeteries Near Cumings ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cumings.

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

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

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

  • Wow Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • McNabb Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • West Gethsemane Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • San Grabiel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Morton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Lightfoot Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Byrd Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Briscoe Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Cottonwood Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (136 more) ...
    • Goss Cemetery
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Sandberry Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • New Home Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Rosenberg
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Richmond
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Foster
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Foster is located in Fort Bend County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
  • Harlem
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Harlem is located in Fort Bend County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harlem
  • Crabb
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Crabb is located in Fort Bend County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crabb
  • Fulshear
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Sugar Land
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Thompsons
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Clodine
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Stafford
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Kendleton
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • East Bernard
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Addicks
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Addicks is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Addicks
    • Westfield
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Westfield is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
    • Duke
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Duke is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duke

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

Newspapers Published in Cumings ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cumings.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cumings, there are papers which were published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cumings.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Cumings:

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 Cumings, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cumings) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.