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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 Flower Hill (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 Flower Hill. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Flower Hill is located in Bastrop 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 Bastrop County: Caldwell, Fayette, Gonzales, Lee & Travis.

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

  • Bastrop County     (The home county of Flower Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Smithville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Togo
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Togo is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Togo
    • Kovar
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Kovar is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kovar
    • Alum Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Alum Creek is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alum Creek
    • Upton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Upton is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
    • Rosanky
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Hills Prairie
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hills Prairie is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills Prairie
    • Bastrop
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jeddo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jeddo is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeddo
    • Paige
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Phelan
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Phelan is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phelan
    • Camp Swift
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Camp Swift is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Swift
    • Red Rock
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Caldwell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Delhi
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Delhi is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delhi
    • Pettytown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Pettytown is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettytown
    • Elm Grove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Elm Grove is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Grove
    • Taylorsville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Taylorsville is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylorsville
    • McMahan
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • McMahan is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMahan
    • Saint Johns Colony
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Saint Johns Colony is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Johns Colony
    • Dale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Tilmon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Tilmon is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tilmon
    • Lytton Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Lytton Springs is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lytton Springs
    • Seawillow
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Seawillow is located in Caldwell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seawillow
  • Colorado County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Weimar
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Oakland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Fayette County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Kirtley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Kirtley is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirtley
    • West Point
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Stellar
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Stellar is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stellar
    • Plum
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Muldoon
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Cistern
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Cistern is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cistern
      • Former names for Cistern:
      • Cockrell's Hill
      • Milton
      • Whiteside's Prairie
    • Colony
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Colony is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony
    • Warda
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Hostyn
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Hostyn is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hostyn
    • La Grange
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Freyburg
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Freyburg is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freyburg
    • Nechanitz
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Nechanitz is located in Fayette County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nechanitz
    • Flatonia
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Gonzales County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Waelder
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sandy Fork
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Sandy Fork is located in Gonzales County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Fork
    • Harwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lavaca County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Moulton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Komensky
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Komensky is located in Lavaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Komensky
    • Moravia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Moravia is located in Lavaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moravia
    • Gleckler
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Gleckler is located in Lavaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gleckler
    • Hackberry ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Hackberry is located in Lavaca County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hackberry
  • Lee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Serbin ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Serbin is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Serbin
    • Giddings
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Fedor
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Fedor is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fedor
    • Lincoln
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Loebau
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Loebau is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loebau
    • Knobbs Springs
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Knobbs Springs is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knobbs Springs
    • Blue
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Blue is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue
  • Travis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Flower Hill, with the one closest to Flower Hill listed first.
    • Garfield
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Garfield is located in Travis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
    • Webberville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Flower Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Flower Hill.

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 Flower Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Colorado Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Thompson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Woods Prairie Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Powell Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Mt. Olive Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Plum Grove Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Old Bartons Creek Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Grays Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Adams Thompson Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Thompson Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Adams Thompson Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Alum Creek.
    • The Adams Thompson Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Adams Morris Thompson Cemetery
    • Thompson - Morris Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2306332 <3>
  • Shiloh Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Winchester Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (166 more) ...

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

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

  • Smithville
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Stellar
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Stellar is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stellar
  • West Point
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Winchester
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Winchester is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
  • Alum Creek
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Alum Creek is located in Bastrop County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alum Creek
  • Upton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Upton is located in Bastrop County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upton
  • Muldoon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Plum
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Cistern
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Cistern is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cistern
    • Former names for Cistern:
    • Cockrell's Hill
    • Milton
    • Whiteside's Prairie
  • Hills Prairie
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hills Prairie is located in Bastrop County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hills Prairie
  • Colony
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Colony is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony
  • O'Quinn
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • O'Quinn is located in Fayette County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Quinn
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Serbin ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Serbin is located in Lee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Serbin
    • String Prairie
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • String Prairie is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for String Prairie
    • Warda
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Flower Hill ...

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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Flower Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Flower Hill, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Flower Hill.

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 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 Flower Hill:

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>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- Flower Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Flower Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.