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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 Scotts Corner (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 Scotts Corner. 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 Scotts Corner ...

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.

  • A typical abbreviation for Scotts Corner: Scotts Cor. (or less commonly used: Scotts Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Scotts Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Scotts Corner may originally have been Scott's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Scotts Corner might be written as Scott Corner.

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

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.

Scotts Corner is located in Fisher 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 Fisher County: Jones, Kent, Mitchell, Nolan, Scurry, Stonewall & Taylor.

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

  • Fisher County     (The home county of Scotts Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Corner, with the one closest to Scotts Corner listed first.
    • Hobbs
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Hobbs is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
    • Rotan
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Roby
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Claytonville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Claytonville is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
    • Capitola
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Capitola is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capitola
    • Royston
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Royston is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royston
    • Sylvester
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • McCaulley
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
    • Hamlin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Kent County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Corner, with the one closest to Scotts Corner listed first.
    • Clairemont
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Clairemont is located in Kent County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clairemont
    • Jayton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Mitchell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Corner, with the one closest to Scotts Corner listed first.
    • Loraine
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Buford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Buford is located in Mitchell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buford
  • Nolan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Corner, with the one closest to Scotts Corner listed first.
    • Wastella ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Wastella is located in Nolan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wastella
    • Avenger Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Avenger Village is located in Nolan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenger Village
    • Roscoe
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Sweetwater
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Scurry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Corner, with the one closest to Scotts Corner listed first.
    • Hermleigh
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Snyder
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Dunn
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Ira
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Stonewall County
    • Double Mountain
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Double Mountain is located in Stonewall County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Mountain

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

Cemeteries Near Scotts Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Scotts Corner.

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 Scotts Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Grady Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Hobbs Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Camp Springs Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Sardis Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Cottonwood Flat Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Rotan Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Claytonville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Dowell Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Fisher Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Riverdale Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Roby Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Hermleigh Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (27 more) ...
    • Pyron Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pyron Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pyron Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southeast of Hermleigh.
    • Snyder Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Hillside Memorial Gardens
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)

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.<5>

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

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

  • Hobbs
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Hobbs is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobbs
  • Fisher
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Fisher is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
  • Roby
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Claytonville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Claytonville is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claytonville
  • Snyder
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Hitson
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Hitson is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
  • Roscoe
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Double Mountain
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Double Mountain is located in Stonewall County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Double Mountain
  • Sweetwater
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Ira
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Loraine
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Eskota
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Eskota is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
  • Neinda
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Neinda is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda

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

Newspapers Published in Scotts Corner ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Scotts Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Scotts Corner, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Scotts Corner.

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 Scotts Corner:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Scotts Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.
<5>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 Scotts Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.