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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 Crossing (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 Crossing. 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 Crossing ...

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 have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Scotts Crossing: Scotts Xing.
  • While the name of this community is Scotts Crossing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Scotts Crossing may originally have been Scott's Crossing.

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

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 doctors and 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 Crossing is located in Llano County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Llano County: Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Mason & San Saba.

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

  • Llano County     (The home county of Scotts Crossing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Crossing, with the one closest to Scotts Crossing listed first.
    • Llano
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Castell
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castell
      • Castell is located in Llano County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Castell <2>
    • Valley Spring
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Baby Head ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baby Head have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Head
      • Baby Head is located in Llano County
    • Lone Grove
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lone Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Grove
      • Lone Grove is located in Llano County
    • Click ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Click have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Click
      • Click is located in Llano County
    • Bluffton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Buchanan Dam
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Kingsland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsland have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsland
      • Kingsland is located in Llano County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kingsland <2>
    • Tow
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Buchanan Lake Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buchanan Lake Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan Lake Village
      • Buchanan Lake Village is located in Llano County
    • Sunrise Beach Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Beach Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Beach Village
      • Sunrise Beach Village is located in Llano County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 810 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunrise Beach Village <2>
  • Burnet County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Crossing, with the one closest to Scotts Crossing listed first.
    • Highland Haven
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Highland Haven have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Haven
      • Highland Haven is located in Burnet County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 445 people
    • Silver Creek Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Creek Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek Village
      • Silver Creek Village is located in Burnet County
    • Granite Shoals
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Granite Shoals have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granite Shoals
      • Granite Shoals is located in Burnet County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,162 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Granite Shoals <2>
    • Horseshoe Bay
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Gillespie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Crossing, with the one closest to Scotts Crossing listed first.
    • Eckert
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckert
      • Eckert is located in Gillespie County
    • Willow City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Doss
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Mason County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scotts Crossing, with the one closest to Scotts Crossing listed first.
    • Pontotoc
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Loyal Valley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal Valley
      • Loyal Valley is located in Mason County
    • Art
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Art have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Art
      • Art is located in Mason County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Art <2>
    • Hedwigs Hill ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hedwigs Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwigs Hill
      • Hedwigs Hill is located in Mason County
    • Hilda
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilda
      • Hilda is located in Mason County
    • Fredonia
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Mason
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Koockville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koockville
      • Koockville is located in Mason County
    • Grit
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grit
      • Grit is located in Mason County
  • McCulloch County
    • Voca
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Voca have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Voca
      • Voca is located in McCulloch County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Voca <2>
  • San Saba County

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

Newspapers Published in Scotts Crossing ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Scotts Crossing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Scotts Crossing, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Scotts Crossing.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Crossing:

Cemeteries Near Scotts Crossing ...

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

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Otto & Offer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Otto & Offer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Otto & Offer Cemetery
  • Hoffman Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hoffman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hoffman Cemetery
  • Sixmile Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sixmile Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sixmile Cemetery
  • Salem Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salem Cemetery
  • Schneider Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Schneider Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schneider Cemetery
  • Vasterling Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Vasterling Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vasterling Cemetery
  • Birk Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Birk Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Birk Cemetery
  • Honig Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Honig Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Honig Cemetery
  • Jedlicka Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Jedlicka Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jedlicka Cemetery
  • Rossberg Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rossberg Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rossberg Cemetery
  • Moss Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moss Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moss Cemetery
  • Koger Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Koger Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Koger Cemetery
  • Continue List   (101 more) ...
    • Clymer Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Clymer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clymer Cemetery
    • Wrights Creek Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wrights Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wrights Creek Cemetery
    • Valley Spring Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valley Spring Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley Spring Cemetery

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.<6>

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

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

  • Castell
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castell have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castell
    • Castell is located in Llano County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Castell <2>
  • Llano
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Valley Spring
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Oxford ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
    • Oxford is located in Llano County
  • Baby Head ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baby Head have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Head
    • Baby Head is located in Llano County
  • Field Creek
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Field Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Field Creek
    • Field Creek is located in Llano County
  • Loyal Valley
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal Valley
    • Loyal Valley is located in Mason County
  • Lone Grove
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lone Grove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Grove
    • Lone Grove is located in Llano County
  • Pontotoc
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Hedwigs Hill ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hedwigs Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedwigs Hill
    • Hedwigs Hill is located in Mason County
  • Click ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Click have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Click
    • Click is located in Llano County
  • Bluffton
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Fredonia
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Willow City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Blowout
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blowout have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blowout
      • Blowout is located in Blanco County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Scotts Crossing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Scotts Crossing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Scotts Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.7282, Longitude: -98.8137       In this case, the coordinates for Scotts Crossing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>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 Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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