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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 Katemcy (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 Katemcy. 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.

Katemcy is located in Mason 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 Mason County: Gillespie, Kimble, Llano, McCulloch, Menard & San Saba.

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

  • Mason County     (The home county of Katemcy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Katemcy, with the one closest to Katemcy listed first.
    • Fredonia
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Grit
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Grit is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grit
    • Koockville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Koockville is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koockville
    • Mason
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Streeter
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Streeter is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Streeter
    • Art
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Pontotoc
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Hedwigs Hill ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Hedwigs Hill is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwigs Hill
    • Hilda
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Hilda is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilda
    • Loyal Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Loyal Valley is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal Valley
  • Kimble County
  • Llano County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Katemcy, with the one closest to Katemcy listed first.
    • Castell
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Valley Spring
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • McCulloch County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Katemcy, with the one closest to Katemcy listed first.
    • Camp San Saba
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Camp San Saba is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp San Saba
    • Voca
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Calf Creek ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Calf Creek is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calf Creek
    • Brady
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Brady is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brady
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,178 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brady <1>
    • Rochelle
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Melvin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Lohn
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Pear Valley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Menard County
  • San Saba County
    • Richland Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Katemcy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Katemcy.

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

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

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

  • Blackjack Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Camp San Saba Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Behrens Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Wagram Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Jones Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Polk Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Ellison Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Tabor Mtn. Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Grit Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Coffey Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Crosby Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Water Valley Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (54 more) ...
    • Spiller Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Cavness Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Old Gooch Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Katemcy had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Camp San Saba
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Camp San Saba is located in McCulloch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp San Saba
  • Voca
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Fredonia
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Mason
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Streeter
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Streeter is located in Mason County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Streeter
  • Brady
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Brady is located in McCulloch County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brady
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,178 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brady <1>
  • Pontotoc
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Field Creek
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Field Creek is located in Llano County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Creek
  • Hedwigs Hill ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Hedwigs Hill is located in Mason County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwigs Hill
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Rochelle
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Castell
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • London
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Valley Spring
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Loyal Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Loyal Valley is located in Mason County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal Valley

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

Newspapers Published in Katemcy ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Katemcy.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Katemcy, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Katemcy.

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 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 Katemcy:

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