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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 Park Place (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 Park Place. 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 Park Place ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Park Place: Park Pl. (or less commonly used: Park Plc.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Park Place. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Park Place.

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 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.

Park Place is located in Harris 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 Harris County: Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Liberty, Montgomery & Waller.

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

  • Harris County     (The home county of Park Place)
  • Brazoria County
  • Chambers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Park Place, with the one closest to Park Place listed first.
    • Shoreacres
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Shoreacres is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoreacres
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,578 people
    • Seabrook
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Baytown
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Beach City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Beach City is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,825 people
    • Mont Belvieu
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Cove
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Cove is located in Chambers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 586 people
    • Old River - Winfree
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Fort Bend County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Park Place, with the one closest to Park Place listed first.
    • Fresno
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Missouri City Estates
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Missouri City Estates is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri City Estates
    • Arcola
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Arcola is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcola
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,775 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arcola <1>
    • Fifth Street
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Fifth Street is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fifth Street
    • Stafford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Hawdon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Missouri City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Meadows Place
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Meadows Place is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows Place
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,813 people
    • Meadows
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Meadows is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows
    • Dewalt
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sienna Plantation
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Sienna Plantation is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sienna Plantation
    • Trammels
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Juliff
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Galveston County
  • Liberty County
  • Montgomery County

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

Cemeteries Near Park Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Park Place.

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 Park Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Park Place, with the one closest to Park Place 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 Park Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Park Place.

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

  • Harrisburg
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Harrisburg is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
  • Magnolia Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Red Bluff
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Red Bluff is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
  • Genoa
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Genoa is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genoa
  • Houston
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Pierce Junction
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Pierce Junction is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierce Junction
  • Lynchburg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lynchburg is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynchburg
  • Sheldon
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Sheldon is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheldon
  • Jeanetta
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jeanetta is located in Harris County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeanetta
  • Piney Point Village
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Aldine
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Stafford
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Arcola Junction
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Arcola Junction is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcola Junction
    • Arcola
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Arcola is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcola
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,775 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arcola <1>
    • Duke
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Duke is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duke

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

Newspapers Published in Park Place ...

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 252 newspapers that have been published in the area around Park Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Park Place, there are papers which were published within 9 miles [14.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Park Place.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Park Place:

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 Park Place, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Park Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.