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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 Stowell (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 Stowell. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Stowell is located in Chambers 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 Chambers County: Harris, Jefferson & Liberty.

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

  • Chambers County     (The home county of Stowell)
  • Galveston County
  • Hardin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stowell, with the one closest to Stowell listed first.
    • Grayburg
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Grayburg is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayburg
    • Sour Lake
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Pinewood Estates
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Pinewood Estates is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinewood Estates
    • Rose Hill Acres
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Rose Hill Acres is located in Hardin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Hill Acres
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 435 people
    • Loeb
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stowell, with the one closest to Stowell listed first.
    • Hamshire
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • La Belle
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Taylor Landing
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Taylor Landing is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Landing
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
    • China
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • China is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,204 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for China <1>
    • Nome
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Nome is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nome
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 592 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nome <1>
    • Pine Island
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Port Acres
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Amelia
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Bevil Oaks
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Bevil Oaks is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bevil Oaks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,209 people
    • Beaumont
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Higgins
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Higgins is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Higgins
    • Central Gardens
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Central Gardens is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Gardens
  • Liberty County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stowell, with the one closest to Stowell listed first.
    • Devers
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Moss Bluff
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Raywood
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Woodson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Woodson is located in Liberty County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodson
    • Daisetta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Ames
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hull
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Liberty
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Orange County
    • Rose City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Rose City is located in Orange County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 489 people

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

Cemeteries Near Stowell ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stowell.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stowell, with the one closest to Stowell 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.<4>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Stowell ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stowell.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Stowell. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Stowell and those printed in the larger area surrounding Stowell.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Stowell.

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 Stowell:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stowell) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Stowell, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.