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 Impact (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 Impact. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Impact is located in Taylor 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 Taylor County: Callahan, Coleman, Fisher, Jones, Nolan, Runnels & Shackelford.
Below are the counties that are near Impact. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Impact:
- Taylor County (The home county of Impact)
- The following are listed by their distance from Impact, with the one closest to Impact listed first.
- Abilene
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Hamby
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Hamby is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamby
- Tye
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Potosi
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Potosi is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potosi
- Mount Pleasant
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Mount Pleasant is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
- Buffalo Gap
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Buffalo Gap is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Gap
- Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
- Merkel
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Tuscola
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Trent
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Ovalo
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Lawn
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Guion
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Guion is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
- Callahan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Impact, with the one closest to Impact listed first.
- Clyde
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Eula
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Eula is located in Callahan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eula
- Denton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Denton is located in Callahan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denton
- Denton has also been known as:
- Denton Valley
- Baird
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Belle Plain ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Belle Plain is located in Callahan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plain
- Coleman County
- Goldsboro
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Haskell County
- Stamford
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Jones County
- The following are listed by their distance from Impact, with the one closest to Impact listed first.
- Hawley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Phantom Hill ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Fort Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Phantom Hill
- Stith
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Stith is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stith
- Funston
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Funston is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Funston
- Anson
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Lueders
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Avoca
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Radium
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Radium is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radium
- Shackelford County
- Albany
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Impact, see our County-by-County Page for Impact.
Cemeteries Near Impact ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Impact.
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 Impact - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Impact covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Impact, with the one closest to Impact listed first.
- Cedar Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Little Elm Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Little Elm Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Elmwood Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tye Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Abilene State Hospital Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Hamby Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Round Mound Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mid Way Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Old Colony Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Hawley Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Phantom Hill Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Continue List (29 more) ...
- Iberis Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Central Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Drummond Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
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 Impact in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Impact.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Impact, with the one closest to Impact listed first.
- Abilene
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Elmdale
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Elmdale is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
- Phantom Hill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phantom Hill
- Buffalo Gap
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Buffalo Gap is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buffalo Gap
- Population from the 2020 Census: 582 people
- Clyde
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Merkel
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Anson
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Baird
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Trent
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Guion
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Guion is located in Taylor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
- Belle Plain ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Belle Plain is located in Callahan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plain
- Neinda
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Neinda is located in Jones County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
- Eskota
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Eskota is located in Fisher County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Impact. See our List of 1890's Communities around Impact.
Newspapers Published in Impact ...
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 73 newspapers that have been published in the area around Impact.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Impact, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Impact.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Impact:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Taylor County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Callahan County
- Coleman County
- Haskell County
- Jones County
- Shackelford 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> | 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 Impact, 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- Impact) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |