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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 Southside 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 Southside 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 Southside 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.

Southside Place has also been known as: South Side Place.

  • A typical abbreviation for Southside Place: Southside Pl. (or less commonly used: Southside Plc.)

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 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.

Southside 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 Southside Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Southside Place:

  • Harris County     (The home county of Southside Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Southside Place, with the one closest to Southside Place listed first.
    • West University Place
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Bellaire
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Cambridge Village
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Cambridge Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge Village
    • Hunters Creek Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • 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
    • Post Oak Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Post Oak Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Post Oak Village
    • Houston
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bunker Hill Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] 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
    • Hilshire Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hilshire Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilshire Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 806 people
    • Piney Point Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Canterbury Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Canterbury Village is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canterbury Village
    • Buckner Haven
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Brays Village East
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Brays Village East is located in Harris County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brays Village East
  • Brazoria County
  • Chambers County
  • Fort Bend County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Southside Place, with the one closest to Southside Place listed first.
    • Missouri City Estates
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Missouri City Estates is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Missouri City Estates
    • Meadows Place
      (9 miles [14.5 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
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Meadows is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadows
    • Stafford
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Fifth Street
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Fifth Street is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fifth Street
    • Fresno
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Missouri City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Town West
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Town West is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town West
    • Dewalt
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Mission Bend
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Mission Bend is located in Fort Bend County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Bend
    • 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
    • Sugar Land
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Galveston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Southside Place, with the one closest to Southside Place listed first.
    • Quaker Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Quaker Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker Village
    • Friendswood
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Carmel Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Carmel Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carmel Village
    • Parkwood Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Parkwood Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkwood Village
    • League City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Clear Lake Shores
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • South Shore Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • South Shore Village is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Shore Village
    • Kemah
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Kemah is located in Galveston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kemah
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,048 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kemah <1>
    • Dickinson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Arcadia
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Santa Fe
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Bacliff
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Montgomery County

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

Cemeteries Near Southside Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Southside 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 Southside Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Southside 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 248 newspapers that have been published in the area around Southside Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Southside Place, there are papers which were published within 6 miles [9.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Southside Place.

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 Southside 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 Southside Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Southside Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.