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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 Lawn (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 Lawn. 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.

Name Variations for Lawn ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

The town of Lawn was originally named Jim Ned

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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 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.

Lawn is located in Taylor County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties 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 Lawn. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lawn:

  • Taylor County     (The home county of Lawn)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawn, with the one closest to Lawn listed first.
    • Ovalo
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ovalo have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ovalo
      • Ovalo is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ovalo <2>
    • Tuscola
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tuscola have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuscola
      • Tuscola is located in Taylor County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 735 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tuscola <2>
    • Guion
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Guion have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
      • Guion is located in Taylor County
    • Buffalo Gap
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Potosi
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Potosi have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potosi
      • Potosi is located in Taylor County
    • Abilene
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Tye
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tye have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tye
      • Tye is located in Taylor County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tye <2>
    • Mount Pleasant
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Pleasant have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
      • Mount Pleasant is located in Taylor County
    • Impact
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Impact have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Impact
      • Impact is located in Taylor County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
    • Hamby
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Merkel
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Callahan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawn, with the one closest to Lawn listed first.
    • Denton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Eula
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Clyde
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clyde have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Clyde is located in Callahan County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,881 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clyde <2>
    • Rowden
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Belle Plain ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Belle Plain. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plain
      • Belle Plain is located in Callahan County

        • Google driving directions:

        From your current location to Belle Plain

        From Lawn to Belle Plain

    • Baird
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Coleman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawn, with the one closest to Lawn listed first.
    • Goldsboro
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goldsboro have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsboro
      • Goldsboro is located in Coleman County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldsboro <2>
    • Novice
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Novice have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novice
      • Novice is located in Coleman County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Novice <2>
    • Glen Cove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Glen Cove. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Cove
      • Glen Cove is located in Coleman County

        • Google driving directions:

        From your current location to Glen Cove

        From Lawn to Glen Cove

    • Talpa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Coleman
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Valera
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valera have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valera
      • Valera is located in Coleman County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Valera <2>
  • Jones County
  • Nolan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawn, with the one closest to Lawn listed first.
    • Hylton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hylton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hylton
      • Hylton is located in Nolan County

        • Google driving directions:

        From your current location to Hylton

        From Lawn to Hylton

    • Nolan
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nolan have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolan
      • Nolan is located in Nolan County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nolan <2>
  • Runnels County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawn, with the one closest to Lawn listed first.
    • Winters
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winters have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winters
      • Winters is located in Runnels County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,469 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winters <2>
    • Wingate
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Norton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Norton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton
      • Norton is located in Runnels County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Norton <2>
    • Ballinger
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Lawn ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lawn.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Dewey Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dewey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dewey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • McBee Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McBee Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McBee Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cope Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cope Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lemons Gap Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lemons Gap Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lemons Gap Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Counts Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Counts Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Counts Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Midway Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Midway Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Midway Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Tecumseh Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tecumseh Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tecumseh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Atoka Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Buffalo Gap Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buffalo Gap Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Buffalo Gap Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Crews Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Iberis Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Rough Creek Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rough Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rough Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (48 more) ...
    • Rough Creek Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Seaton Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Seaton Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Seaton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Potosi Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Potosi Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Potosi Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.<6>

While we didn't find Lawn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lawn.

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

  • Guion
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Guion have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
    • Guion is located in Taylor County
  • Buffalo Gap
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Novice
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Novice have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novice
    • Novice is located in Coleman County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 126 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Novice <2>
  • Winters
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winters have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winters
    • Winters is located in Runnels County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,469 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winters <2>
  • Silver Valley
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Valley
    • Silver Valley is located in Coleman County
  • Glen Cove
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Glen Cove. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Cove
    • Glen Cove is located in Coleman County

      • Google driving directions:

      From your current location to Glen Cove

      From Lawn to Glen Cove

  • Elmdale
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elmdale have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
    • Elmdale is located in Taylor County
  • Abilene
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Clyde
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clyde have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
    • Clyde is located in Callahan County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,881 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clyde <2>
  • Talpa
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Belle Plain ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Belle Plain. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belle Plain
    • Belle Plain is located in Callahan County

      • Google driving directions:

      From your current location to Belle Plain

      From Lawn to Belle Plain

  • Hylton
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hylton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hylton
    • Hylton is located in Nolan County

      • Google driving directions:

      From your current location to Hylton

      From Lawn to Hylton

  • Continue List   (5 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Lawn ...

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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lawn.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lawn, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lawn.

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 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 Lawn:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lawn. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Taylor County: www.taylorcountytexas.org/

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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- Lawn) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lawn. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.1360, Longitude: -99.7486    
<5>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.
<6>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 Lawn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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