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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 Sabine (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 Sabine. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Sabine is located in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Chambers, Hardin, Liberty & Orange.

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

  • Jefferson County     (The home county of Sabine)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sabine, with the one closest to Sabine listed first.
    • Sabine Pass
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Port Arthur
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Port Acres
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Groves
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Groves is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Groves
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15,268 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Groves <1>
    • Port Neches
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Nederland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Taylor Landing
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Taylor Landing is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Landing
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
    • Central Gardens
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Central Gardens is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Gardens
    • La Belle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • La Belle is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Belle
    • Higgins
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Higgins is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins
    • Hamshire
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Beaumont
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Amelia
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Amelia is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amelia
  • Orange County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sabine, with the one closest to Sabine listed first.
    • Bridge City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Orangefield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • West Orange
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Orange
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Terry
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Terry is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terry
    • Pinehurst
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Pinehurst is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehurst
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,959 people
    • Rose City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Rose City is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 489 people
    • Vidor
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Vidor is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vidor
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,310 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vidor <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Sabine ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sabine.

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 Sabine - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Sabine Pass Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabine Pass Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sabine Pass Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Sabine Pass.
    • The Sabine Pass Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pace Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2168432 <2>
  • McGaffey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Peveto Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Smith Ridge Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Pevoto Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Head of the Hollow Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Greenlawn Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Johnson Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Johnson Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Groves.
    • The Johnson Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Johnson Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1987385 <2>
  • Forest Lawn Memorial Park
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Hillebrandt Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Floyd Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (26 more) ...
    • Hillcrest Memorial Gardens
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Granger Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Thomas Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)

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 Sabine in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sabine.

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

  • Sabine Pass
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Johnsons Bayou
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Johnsons Bayou is located in Cameron Parish (LA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnsons Bayou
  • La Belle
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • La Belle is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Belle
  • Orange
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Tulane
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Tulane is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulane
  • Terry
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Terry is located in Orange County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terry
  • Beaumont
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Sabine. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sabine.

Newspapers Published in Sabine ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sabine.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sabine, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sabine.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Sabine:

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 Sabine, 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- Sabine) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.