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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Waldon Place Windmill during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Waldon Place Windmill was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Waldon Place Windmill (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 Waldon Place Windmill. 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 Waldon Place Windmill ...

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 Waldon Place Windmill: Waldon Pl. Windmill (or less commonly used: Waldon Plc. Windmill)

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.

Waldon Place Windmill is located in Andrews 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 Andrews County: Lea (NM), Ector, Gaines, Martin, Midland & Winkler.

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

  • Andrews County     (The home county of Waldon Place Windmill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Waldon Place Windmill, with the one closest to Waldon Place Windmill listed first.
    • Andrews
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Florey
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Florey
      • Florey is located in Andrews County
    • Shafter Lake ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shafter Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shafter Lake
      • Shafter Lake is located in Andrews County
    • Frankel City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frankel City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frankel City
      • Frankel City is located in Andrews County
    • Coyote Corner
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Coyote Corner. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Corner
      • Coyote Corner is located in Andrews County
  • Ector County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Waldon Place Windmill, with the one closest to Waldon Place Windmill listed first.
    • Scharbauer City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scharbauer City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scharbauer City
      • Scharbauer City is located in Ector County
    • Gardendale
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Goldsmith
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goldsmith have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsmith
      • Goldsmith is located in Ector County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldsmith <2>
  • Gaines County
    • Seminole
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Martin County
    • Tarzan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tarzan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarzan
      • Tarzan is located in Martin County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tarzan <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Waldon Place Windmill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Waldon Place Windmill.

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 Waldon Place Windmill covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Waldon Place Windmill, with the one closest to Waldon Place Windmill listed first.

  • Andrews Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Andrews Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Andrews Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Andrews.
    • The Andrews Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Andrews County Cemetery
    • Old Andrews Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #240561 <5>
  • Andrews West Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Andrews West Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Andrews West Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Andrews.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2132550 <5>
  • Andrews North Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Shafter Lake Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • American Heritage Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Gaines County Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gaines County Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gaines County Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Seminole.
    • The Gaines County Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Gaines County South Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2218389 <5>
  • Valhalla Mausoleum
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valhalla Mausoleum
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Valhalla Mausoleum have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rest Haven Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rest Haven Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rest Haven Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Waldon Place Windmill ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Waldon Place Windmill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Waldon Place Windmill, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Waldon Place Windmill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Waldon Place Windmill:

The official website for Andrews County: www.co.andrews.tx.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Waldon Place Windmill and then turned west". While Waldon Place Windmill could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Waldon Place Windmill as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Waldon Place Windmill could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Since confusion between counties is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Texas community named Waldon Place Windmill.
<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>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.
<5>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.
<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- Waldon Place Windmill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Waldon Place Windmill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.3340, Longitude: -102.4560       In this case, the coordinates for Waldon Place Windmill have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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