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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 Oak Cliff Acres (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 Oak Cliff Acres. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Oak Cliff Acres is located in Comal 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 Comal County: Bexar, Blanco, Guadalupe, Hays & Kendall.

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

  • Comal County     (The home county of Oak Cliff Acres)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Cliff Acres, with the one closest to Oak Cliff Acres listed first.
    • Honey Creek
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Anhalt
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Bulverde West ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Bulverde West is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulverde West
    • Bulverde
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Bulverde South ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Bulverde South is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulverde South
    • Silver Hills
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Silver Hills is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Hills
    • Spring Branch
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Bulverde East ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Bulverde East is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bulverde East
    • Smithson Valley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Smithson Valley is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithson Valley
    • Canyon Springs
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Canyon Springs is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Springs
    • Startzville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Startzville is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Startzville
    • Westhaven
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Westhaven is located in Comal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westhaven
  • Bandera County
  • Bexar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Cliff Acres, with the one closest to Oak Cliff Acres listed first.
    • Timberwood Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Fair Oaks Ranch
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Dominion
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Dominion is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominion
    • Leon Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Scenic Oaks
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Scenic Oaks is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scenic Oaks
    • Hollywood Park
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Cross Mountain
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Cross Mountain is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Mountain
    • Hill Country Village
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Hill Country Village is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill Country Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,110 people
    • Shavano Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Shavano Park is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavano Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,024 people
    • Grey Forest
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Grey Forest is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grey Forest
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 575 people
    • Wetmore
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Castle Hills
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Blanco County
  • Gillespie County
  • Guadalupe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Cliff Acres, with the one closest to Oak Cliff Acres listed first.
    • Northcliff
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Northcliff is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northcliff
    • Haeckerville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Haeckerville is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haeckerville
    • Santa Clara
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Santa Clara is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Clara
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 745 people
    • Marion
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Marion is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,281 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marion <1>
    • Camp Willow
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Camp Willow is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Willow
    • Clear Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Clear Springs is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Springs
    • Lake Dunlap
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Lake Dunlap is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Dunlap
    • Schumannsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Schumannsville is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schumannsville
    • Hilda Siding
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Zuehl
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Hays County
  • Kendall County
  • Medina County

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

Cemeteries Near Oak Cliff Acres ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oak Cliff Acres.

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 Oak Cliff Acres - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oak Cliff Acres, with the one closest to Oak Cliff Acres 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.<3>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Oak Cliff Acres ...

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 201 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oak Cliff Acres.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oak Cliff Acres, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oak Cliff Acres.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Oak Cliff Acres:

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 Oak Cliff Acres, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Cliff Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.