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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 Humble (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 Humble. 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.

Humble is located in Harris 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 Harris County: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery & Waller.

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

  • Harris County     (The home county of Humble)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humble, with the one closest to Humble listed first.
    • Intercontinental Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Kingwood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Spears Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Spears Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spears Village
    • Atascocita
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Bear Branch Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Bear Branch Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Branch Village
    • Hunter Ridge Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Hunter Ridge Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter Ridge Village
    • Sherwood Trails Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Woodland Hills Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Elm Grove Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Elm Grove Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Grove Village
    • Greentree Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Greentree Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greentree Village
    • Sandpiper Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Sandpiper Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandpiper Village
    • Pine Village North
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Greenwood Village
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Brazoria County
  • Chambers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humble, with the one closest to Humble listed first.
    • Baytown
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Mont Belvieu
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Old River - Winfree
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Cove
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cove is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 586 people
    • Shoreacres
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Shoreacres is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoreacres
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,578 people
    • Beach City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Beach City is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,825 people
  • Fort Bend County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humble, with the one closest to Humble listed first.
    • Meadows Place
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadows Place is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows Place
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,813 people
    • Meadows
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadows is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows
    • Mission Bend
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Mission Bend is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bend
    • Missouri City Estates
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Missouri City Estates is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri City Estates
  • Liberty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Humble, with the one closest to Humble listed first.
    • Gum Grove
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Plum Grove
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Plum Grove is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plum Grove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 756 people
    • Stilson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Dayton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Nimrod ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Nimrod is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimrod
    • Kenefick
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Kenefick is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenefick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 722 people
    • North Cleveland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • North Cleveland is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cleveland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 313 people
    • Cleveland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Dayton Lakes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Dayton Lakes is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dayton Lakes
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
    • Liberty
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Moss Bluff
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Montgomery County

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

Cemeteries Near Humble ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Humble.

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

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

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

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Humble had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Humble had a population of 15,539 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Humble ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Humble.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Humble, there are papers which were published within 10 miles [16.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Humble.

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 Humble:

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 Humble, 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 from Point A (ie- Humble) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.