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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 Timberwood Park (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 Timberwood Park. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Timberwood Park is located in Bexar 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 Bexar County: Atascosa, Bandera, Comal, Guadalupe, Kendall, Medina & Wilson.

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

  • Bexar County     (The home county of Timberwood Park)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Timberwood Park, with the one closest to Timberwood Park listed first.
    • Hollywood Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Hill Country Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Hill Country Village is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill Country Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,110 people
    • Dominion
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Dominion is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dominion
    • Shavano Park
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Shavano Park is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shavano Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,024 people
    • Leon Springs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Wetmore
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Cross Mountain
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Cross Mountain is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cross Mountain
    • Fair Oaks Ranch
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Scenic Oaks
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Scenic Oaks is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scenic Oaks
    • Castle Hills
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Live Oak
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Grey Forest
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Grey Forest is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grey Forest
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 575 people
  • Bandera County
  • Blanco County
  • Comal County
  • Guadalupe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Timberwood Park, with the one closest to Timberwood Park listed first.
    • Northcliff
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Northcliff is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northcliff
    • Haeckerville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Haeckerville is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haeckerville
    • Santa Clara
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Santa Clara is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Clara
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 745 people
    • Marion
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Marion is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,281 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Marion <1>
    • Camp Willow
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Camp Willow is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Willow
    • Lake Dunlap
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Lake Dunlap is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Dunlap
    • Schumannsville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Schumannsville is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schumannsville
    • Zuehl
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Clear Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Clear Springs is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Springs
    • Hilda Siding
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • McQueeney
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Barbarosa
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Barbarosa is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barbarosa
  • Hays County
  • Kendall County
  • Medina County
  • Wilson County
    • Carpenter
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Carpenter is located in Wilson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter

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

Cemeteries Near Timberwood Park ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Timberwood Park.

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 Timberwood Park - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Timberwood Park ...

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 222 newspapers that have been published in the area around Timberwood Park.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Timberwood Park, 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 Timberwood Park.

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 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 Timberwood Park:

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