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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 Mount Wesley (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 Mount Wesley. 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 Mount Wesley ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Mount Wesley: Mt. Wesley

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Mount Wesley is located in Kerr 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 Kerr County: Bandera, Edwards, Gillespie, Kendall, Kimble & Real.

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

  • Kerr County     (The home county of Mount Wesley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mount Wesley, with the one closest to Mount Wesley listed first.
    • Kerrville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Ingram
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
      • Ingram is located in Kerr County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,871 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ingram <1>
    • Hunt
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunt have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunt
      • Hunt is located in Kerr County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hunt <1>
    • Center Point
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Camp Verde
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Mountain Home
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
      • Mountain Home is located in Kerr County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <1>
  • Bandera County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mount Wesley, with the one closest to Mount Wesley listed first.
    • Medina
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Bandera
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Tuff ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tuff have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuff
      • Tuff is located in Bandera County
    • Lakehills
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakehills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakehills
      • Lakehills is located in Bandera County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lakehills <1>
    • Pipe Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Tarpley
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tarpley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarpley
      • Tarpley is located in Bandera County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tarpley <1>
    • Bandera Falls
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bandera Falls
      • Bandera Falls is located in Bandera County
  • Gillespie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mount Wesley, with the one closest to Mount Wesley listed first.
    • Tivydale
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tivydale
      • Tivydale is located in Gillespie County
    • Morris Ranch ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morris Ranch
      • Morris Ranch is located in Gillespie County
    • Harper
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Grapetown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grapetown
      • Grapetown is located in Gillespie County
    • Cain City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cain City
      • Cain City is located in Gillespie County
    • Fredericksburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Luckenbach
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Doss
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Blumenthal
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blumenthal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blumenthal
      • Blumenthal is located in Gillespie County
  • Kendall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mount Wesley, with the one closest to Mount Wesley listed first.
    • Comfort
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comfort have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comfort
      • Comfort is located in Kendall County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Comfort <1>
    • Bankersmith
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bankersmith have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bankersmith
      • Bankersmith is located in Kendall County
    • Waring
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Welfare
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welfare
      • Welfare is located in Kendall County
    • Nelson City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nelson City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson City
      • Nelson City is located in Kendall County
    • Sisterdale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Kimble County
    • Noxville ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noxville
      • Noxville is located in Kimble County

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

Newspapers Published in Mount Wesley ...

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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mount Wesley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mount Wesley, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mount Wesley.

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 Mount Wesley:

Cemeteries Near Mount Wesley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mount Wesley.

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 Mount Wesley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mount Wesley, with the one closest to Mount Wesley 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.<5>

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

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

  • Kerrville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Ingram
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
    • Ingram is located in Kerr County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,871 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ingram <1>
  • Center Point
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Camp Verde
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Mountain Home
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
    • Mountain Home is located in Kerr County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <1>
  • Harper
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Comfort
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Comfort have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comfort
    • Comfort is located in Kendall County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Comfort <1>
  • Medina
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Waring
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Fredericksburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Bandera
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Welfare
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welfare
      • Welfare is located in Kendall County
    • Luckenbach
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Sisterdale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Noxville ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noxville
      • Noxville is located in Kimble County

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

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

The official website for Kerr County: www.co.kerr.tx.us/

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

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 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.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mount Wesley) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mount Wesley. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.0747, Longitude: -99.1595       In this case, the coordinates for Mount Wesley have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Mount Wesley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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