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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 Piney Point Village (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 Piney Point Village. 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 Piney Point Village ...

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.

Piney Point Village has also been known as: Piney Point.

  • A typical abbreviation for Piney Point Village: Piney Pt. Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 hospitals 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.

Piney Point Village 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 Piney Point Village. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Piney Point Village:

  • Harris County     (The home county of Piney Point Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Piney Point Village, with the one closest to Piney Point Village listed first.
    • Bunker Hill Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Bunker Hill Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,901 people
    • Hedwig Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Hedwig Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwig Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,600 people
    • Hunters Creek Village
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Hunters Creek Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunters Creek Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,824 people
    • Buckner Haven
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • City of Spring Valley Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Spring Valley
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Spring Valley is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
    • Hilshire Village
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Hilshire Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilshire Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 806 people
    • Brays Village East
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Brays Village East is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brays Village East
    • Bellaire
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • West University Place
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Alief
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Ashford Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Ashford Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashford Village
    • Candlelight Oaks Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Brazoria County
  • Fort Bend County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Piney Point Village, with the one closest to Piney Point Village listed first.
    • Missouri City Estates
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Missouri City Estates is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri City Estates
    • Meadows Place
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • 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
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadows is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows
    • Mission Bend
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Mission Bend is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bend
    • Town West
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Town West is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town West
    • Stafford
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Clodine
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Fifth Street
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Fifth Street is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fifth Street
    • West Oaks Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • West Oaks Village is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Oaks Village
    • Sugar Land
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Missouri City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • First Colony
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • First Colony is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for First Colony
    • Cinco Ranch
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Cinco Ranch is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cinco Ranch
  • Galveston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Piney Point Village, with the one closest to Piney Point Village listed first.
    • Quaker Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Quaker Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Village
    • Friendswood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Carmel Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Carmel Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmel Village
    • Parkwood Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Parkwood Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkwood Village
    • League City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Montgomery County
  • Waller County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Piney Point Village, with the one closest to Piney Point Village listed first.
    • Brookshire
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Pattison
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Piney Point Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Piney Point Village.

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 Piney Point Village - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Piney Point Village, with the one closest to Piney Point Village 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Piney Point Village had railroad service and no post office. In 2020, Piney Point Village had a population of 3,416 people.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Piney Point Village, with the one closest to Piney Point Village listed first.

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

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 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 Piney Point Village:

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 Piney Point Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.