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 Folsom (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 Folsom. 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 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.
Folsom is located in Potter 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 Potter County: Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham & Randall.
Below are the counties that are near Folsom. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Folsom:
- Potter County (The home county of Folsom)
- The following are listed by their distance from Folsom, with the one closest to Folsom listed first.
- Amarillo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Bishop Hills
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Bishop Hills is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
- Soncy
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Bushland
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Armstrong County
- The following are listed by their distance from Folsom, with the one closest to Folsom listed first.
- Washburn
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Washburn is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
- Fairview
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Fairview is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Claude
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Malden
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Malden is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malden
- Carson County
- Panhandle
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Hutchinson County
- Fritch
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Oldham County
- Wildorado
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Randall County
- The following are listed by their distance from Folsom, with the one closest to Folsom listed first.
- Lake Tanglewood
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Lake Tanglewood is located in Randall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Tanglewood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 898 people
- Palisades
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Palisades is located in Randall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
- Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
- Timbercreek Canyon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Timbercreek Canyon is located in Randall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timbercreek Canyon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 479 people
- Canyon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Umbarger
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Folsom, see our County-by-County Page for Folsom.
Cemeteries Near Folsom ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Folsom.
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 Folsom - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Folsom covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Folsom, with the one closest to Folsom listed first.
- Memorial Park Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- St. Francis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Llano Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Llano Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Llano Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Amarillo.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #171790 <2>
- Liberty Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Washburn Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Arnot Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Townsend Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Memory Gardens
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- St. Paul Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Claude Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Panhandle Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Dreamland Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dreamland Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dreamland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the south of Canyon.
- The Dreamland Cemetery has also been known as:
- Canyon Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #3288 <2>
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
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 Folsom in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Folsom.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Folsom, with the one closest to Folsom listed first.
- Pullman
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Pullman is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pullman
- Amarillo
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Washburn
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Washburn is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
- Panhandle
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Canyon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Claude
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Ady
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ady is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ady
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Folsom. See our List of 1890's Communities around Folsom.
Newspapers Published in Folsom ...
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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Folsom.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Folsom, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Folsom.
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 either 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 Folsom:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Potter County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Armstrong County
- Carson County
- Hutchinson County
- Oldham County
- Randall County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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- Folsom) 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 Folsom, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |