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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 Mountain Home (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 Mountain Home. 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 Mountain Home ...

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 Mountain Home: Mtn. Home

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Mountain Home 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 Mountain Home. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Mountain Home:

  • Kerr County     (The home county of Mountain Home)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.
    • Hunt
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hunt have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
    • Ingram
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
    • Kerrville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Camp Verde
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Center Point
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Bandera County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.
    • Medina
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Tuff ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tuff have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuff
      • Tuff is located in Bandera County
  • Gillespie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.
    • Harper
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Tivydale
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tivydale
      • Tivydale is located in Gillespie County
    • Morris Ranch ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morris Ranch
      • Morris Ranch is located in Gillespie County
    • Doss
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Kimble County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Home, with the one closest to Mountain Home listed first.
    • Noxville ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noxville
      • Noxville is located in Kimble County
    • Segovia
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Mountain Home ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain Home.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Mountain Home. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Mountain Home and those printed in the larger area surrounding Mountain Home.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3> of Mountain Home.

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 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 Mountain Home:

Cemeteries Near Mountain Home ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mountain Home.

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 Mountain Home covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Sunset Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunset Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Cemetery
  • Sunset Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Hunt Japonica Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Baldwin Family Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Henderson Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Peril Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Peril Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Peril Cemetery
  • Colbath Family Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Nichols Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Noxville Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Noxville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Noxville Cemetery
  • Starkey Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Gate of Heaven Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Turtle Creek Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (47 more) ...

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>

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

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

  • Ingram
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingram have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
  • Harper
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Noxville ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noxville
    • Noxville is located in Kimble County
  • Kerrville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Camp Verde
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Center Point
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Medina
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mountain Home. 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>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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mountain Home) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountain Home. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.1746, Longitude: -99.3803       In this case, the coordinates for Mountain Home 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 Mountain Home, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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