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 Lamar (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 Lamar. 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.
Lamar is located in Aransas 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 Aransas County: Refugio & San Patricio.
Below are the counties that are near Lamar. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lamar:
- Aransas County (The home county of Lamar)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lamar, with the one closest to Lamar listed first.
- Copano Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Copano Village is located in Aransas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copano Village
- Fulton
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Rockport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Spanish Village
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Spanish Village is located in Aransas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Village
- Aransas Pass
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Bee County
- Blanconia
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Blanconia is located in Bee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blanconia
- Former names for Blanconia:
- Dark Corners
- Pull Tight
- Calhoun County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lamar, with the one closest to Lamar listed first.
- Seadrift
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Long Mott
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Nueces County
- Port Aransas
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Refugio County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lamar, with the one closest to Lamar listed first.
- Bayside
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Black Point ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Black Point is located in Refugio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Point
- Austwell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Refugio
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Woodsboro
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Tivoli
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- San Patricio County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lamar, with the one closest to Lamar listed first.
- Tradewinds
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Tradewinds is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tradewinds
- Ingleside
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Gregory
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Harbor City ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Harbor City is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor City
- Ingleside-On-the-Bay
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Ingleside-On-the-Bay is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingleside-On-the-Bay
- Population from the 2020 Census: 608 people
- Taft
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Taft is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,886 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Taft <1>
- Portland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Taft Southwest
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Taft Southwest is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft Southwest
- Doyle
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Doyle is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doyle
- Rancho Chico
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Rancho Chico is located in San Patricio County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Chico
- Victoria County
- McFaddin
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lamar, see our County-by-County Page for Lamar.
Cemeteries Near Lamar ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lamar.
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 Lamar - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lamar covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lamar, with the one closest to Lamar listed first.
- Lamar Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Fulton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Fulton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Fulton.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1980333 <2>
- Rockport Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- McLester Family Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McLester Family Cemetery
- The McLester Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- McLester Cemetery
- McLester Orchard Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #5152 <2>
- Aransas Memorial Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- San Antonio Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Antonio Cemetery
- The San Antonio Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cementerio San Antonio De Padua
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6682 <2>
- Prairie View Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Austwell Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Oakwood Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Oakwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Refugio.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #5697 <2>
- St. Bernard Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- La Rosa Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- San Ignacio Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (22 more) ...
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Calvary Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Heard Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
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 Lamar had a population of 188 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lamar, with the one closest to Lamar listed first.
- Fulton
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Rockport
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Aransas Pass
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Refugio
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Gregory
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Seadrift
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Portland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Long Mott
(27 miles [43.5 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 Lamar. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lamar.
Newspapers Published in Lamar ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lamar.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lamar, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lamar.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Lamar:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Aransas County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bee County
- Calhoun County
- Nueces County
- Refugio County
- San Patricio County
- Victoria 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 Lamar, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lamar) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |