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 Mountain Springs (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 Springs. 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 Springs ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Mountain Springs: Mtn. Springs
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Mountain Springs. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Mountain Springs.
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 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.
Mountain Springs is located in Cooke 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 Cooke County: Love (OK), Denton, Grayson, Montague & Wise.
Below are the counties that are near Mountain Springs. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Mountain Springs:
- Cooke County (The home county of Mountain Springs)
- The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Bloomfield
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Bloomfield is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
- Burns City
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Burns City is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns City
- Hemming
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Hemming is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemming
- Lake Kiowa
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Valley View
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Oak Ridge
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Oak Ridge is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Ridge
- Population from the 2020 Census: 255 people
- Gainesville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Custer City ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Custer City is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer City
- Lindsay
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Era
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Callisburg
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Callisburg is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Callisburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
- Hood
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Hood is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hood
- Collin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Celina
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Prosper
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Weston
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Rhea Mills
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Rhea Mills is located in Collin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhea Mills
- Rockhill
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Rockhill is located in Collin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockhill
- Frisco
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Roland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Roland is located in Collin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roland
- Mantua ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Mantua is located in Collin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mantua
- Van Alstyne
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Anna
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Parris
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Parris is located in Collin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parris
- McKinney
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Comanche County
- Cross Roads
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Cross Roads is located in Comanche County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Roads
- Dallas County
- Lewisville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Denton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Pilot Point
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Sanger
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Aubrey
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Krugerville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Krugerville is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krugerville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,871 people
- Bolivar
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bolivar is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolivar
- Cross Roads
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Providence Village
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Providence Village is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence Village
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,564 people
- Denton
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Lincoln Park
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Lincoln Park is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 567 people
- Quakertown ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Quakertown is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quakertown
- Krum
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Oak Point
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Grayson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Tioga
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Collinsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ethel
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Ethel is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ethel
- Whitesboro
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Gunter
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Sadler
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Dixie
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Dixie is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
- Southmayd
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Dorchester
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Dorchester is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dorchester
- Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
- Basin Springs
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Basin Springs is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin Springs
- Gage
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Gage is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gage
- Sandusky
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Sandusky is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandusky
- Montague County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Hardy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Hardy is located in Montague County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardy
- Forestburg
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- New Harp
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- New Harp is located in Montague County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Harp
- Wise County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Slidell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Greenwood
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Love County (OK)
- Thackerville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Mountain Springs, see our County-by-County Page for Mountain Springs.
Cemeteries Near Mountain Springs ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mountain Springs.
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 Mountain Springs - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Mountain Springs covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Oak Hill Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- New Hope Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Mt. Olive Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Walling Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bloomfield Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Osburn Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Tyson Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Turner Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Este Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Clark County Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Cole Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cole Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cole Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the southwest of Tioga.
- Continue List (192 more) ...
- Tioga Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Barron Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Barron Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barron Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Barron Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the southwest of Collinsville.
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.<4>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Mountain Springs had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Mountain Springs, with the one closest to Mountain Springs listed first.
- Bloomfield
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Bloomfield is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomfield
- Valley View
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Pilot Point
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Tioga
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Collinsville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Woodbine
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Woodbine is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbine
- Sanger
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Gainesville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Aubrey
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Ethel
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Ethel is located in Grayson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ethel
- Custer City ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Custer City is located in Cooke County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Custer City
- Mustang
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Mustang is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mustang
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Bolivar
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Bolivar is located in Denton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolivar
- Whitesboro
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lindsay
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Mountain Springs. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mountain Springs.
Newspapers Published in Mountain Springs ...
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 97 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain Springs.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mountain Springs, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mountain Springs.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Mountain Springs:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Cooke County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Collin County
- Comanche County
- Dallas County
- Denton County
- Grayson County
- Montague County
- Wise County
- Love 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Mountain Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | 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 Springs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |