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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 Sunrise Beach Village (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 Sunrise Beach Village. 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 Sunrise Beach Village ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Sunrise Beach Village: Sunrise Bch. Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Sunrise Beach Village 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 Sunrise Beach Village. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sunrise Beach Village:

  • Llano County     (The home county of Sunrise Beach Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunrise Beach Village, with the one closest to Sunrise Beach Village listed first.
    • Kingsland
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingsland have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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>
    • Click ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Click have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Click
      • Click is located in Llano County
    • Buchanan Dam
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Bluffton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Buchanan Lake Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Buchanan Lake Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buchanan Lake Village
      • Buchanan Lake Village is located in Llano County
    • Lone Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lone Grove. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Grove
      • Lone Grove is located in Llano County
    • Llano
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Tow
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Baby Head ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Baby Head. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Head
      • Baby Head is located in Llano County
    • Valley Spring
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Blanco County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunrise Beach Village, with the one closest to Sunrise Beach Village listed first.
    • Round Mountain
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sandy
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Cypress Mill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Johnson City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Hye
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hye have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hye
      • Hye is located in Blanco County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hye <2>
  • Burnet County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunrise Beach Village, with the one closest to Sunrise Beach Village listed first.
    • Granite Shoals
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Granite Shoals have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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>
    • Highland Haven
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Highland Haven have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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
    • Horseshoe Bay
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Cottonwood Shores
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood Shores
      • Cottonwood Shores is located in Burnet County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,313 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cottonwood Shores <2>
    • Meadowlakes
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meadowlakes have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowlakes
      • Meadowlakes is located in Burnet County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,733 people
    • Marble Falls
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Shovel Mountain
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shovel Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shovel Mountain
      • Shovel Mountain is located in Burnet County
    • Mormon Mill ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mormon Mill
      • Mormon Mill is located in Burnet County
      • Mormon Mill has also been known as:
      • Mormon Colony
    • Burnet
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Spicewood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spicewood have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spicewood
      • Spicewood is located in Burnet County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spicewood <2>
    • Silver Creek Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Silver Creek Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek Village
      • Silver Creek Village is located in Burnet County
    • Oatmeal
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Gillespie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunrise Beach Village, with the one closest to Sunrise Beach Village listed first.
    • Willow City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Eckert
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eckert
      • Eckert is located in Gillespie County
    • Stonewall
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Albert
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albert
      • Albert is located in Gillespie County
  • Hays County
    • Henly
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Henly. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henly
      • Henly is located in Hays County
  • Travis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunrise Beach Village, with the one closest to Sunrise Beach Village listed first.
    • Briarcliff
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Lago Vista
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Point Venture
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Point Venture have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Venture
      • Point Venture is located in Travis County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,053 people
      • Point Venture has also been known as:
      • Point Venture village
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Point Venture <2>
    • Nameless ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nameless
      • Nameless is located in Travis County
      • Nameless has also been known as:
      • Cross Creek
      • Fairview
    • Jonestown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jonestown have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonestown
      • Jonestown is located in Travis County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,169 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jonestown <2>
    • Buffalo Gap
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • The Hills
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for The Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Hills
      • The Hills is located in Travis County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,456 people
    • Lakeway
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakeway have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeway
      • Lakeway is located in Travis County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 16,216 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lakeway <2>
  • Williamson County
    • Liberty Hill
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Liberty Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Hill
      • Liberty Hill is located in Williamson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,549 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Liberty Hill <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Sunrise Beach Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sunrise Beach Village.

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 Sunrise Beach Village covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Wolf Crossing Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wolf Crossing Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wolf Crossing Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pecan Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pecan Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pecan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Fox Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fox Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fox Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Kingsland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kingsland Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kingsland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Smith Family Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Tobey Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tobey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tobey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hoovers Valley Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hoovers Valley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hoovers Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Paschall Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paschall Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paschall Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Honey Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Honey Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Honey Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Konvicka Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Konvicka Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Konvicka Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Murchinson Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Murchinson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Murchinson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Roberts / Shelley / Hardin Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (90 more) ...
    • Round Mountain Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Richter Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Richter Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Richter Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pleasant Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

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

  • Marble Falls
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Fairland
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairland have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairland
    • Fairland is located in Burnet County
  • Click ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Click have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Click
    • Click is located in Llano County
  • Shovel Mountain
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shovel Mountain have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shovel Mountain
    • Shovel Mountain is located in Burnet County
  • Round Mountain
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sudduth
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sudduth have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sudduth
    • Sudduth is located in Burnet County
  • Blowout
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blowout have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blowout
    • Blowout is located in Blanco County
  • Sandy
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Bluffton
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Smithwick
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smithwick have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithwick
    • Smithwick is located in Burnet County
  • Burnet
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Cypress Mill
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Oxford ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Oxford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
      • Oxford is located in Llano County
    • Lone Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lone Grove. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Grove
      • Lone Grove is located in Llano County
    • Llano
      (19 miles [30.6 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 Sunrise Beach Village. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sunrise Beach Village.

Newspapers Published in Sunrise Beach Village ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunrise Beach Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sunrise Beach Village, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sunrise Beach Village.

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 Sunrise Beach Village:

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

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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 Sunrise Beach Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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 from Point A (ie- Sunrise Beach Village) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunrise Beach Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 30.5861, Longitude: -98.4187       In this case, the coordinates for Sunrise Beach Village have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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