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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 Zorn (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 Zorn. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Zorn is located in Guadalupe 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 Guadalupe County: Bexar, Caldwell, Comal, Gonzales, Hays & Wilson.

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

  • Guadalupe County     (The home county of Zorn)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zorn, with the one closest to Zorn listed first.
    • Galle
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Redwood
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Barbarosa
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Barbarosa is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barbarosa
    • Staples
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Geronimo
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Weinert
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lauback
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Lauback is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lauback
    • Clear Springs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Clear Springs is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clear Springs
    • Camp Willow
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Camp Willow is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Willow
    • Lake Dunlap
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Lake Dunlap is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Dunlap
    • Kingsbury
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Schumannsville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Schumannsville is located in Guadalupe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schumannsville
  • Bastrop County
    • Mustang Ridge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Mustang Ridge is located in Bastrop County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mustang Ridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,001 people
  • Bexar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zorn, with the one closest to Zorn listed first.
    • Cibolo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Schertz
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Selma
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Universal City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Airport City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Airport City is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport City
    • Converse
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Live Oak
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Saint Hedwig
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Adkins
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Windcrest
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Windcrest is located in Bexar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Windcrest
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,854 people
  • Caldwell County
  • Comal County
  • Gonzales County
  • Hays County
  • Travis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zorn, with the one closest to Zorn listed first.
    • Creedmoor
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Manchaca
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Carl
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Onion Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Onion Creek is located in Travis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onion Creek
    • San Leanna
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • San Leanna is located in Travis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Leanna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 507 people
    • Shady Hollow
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Shady Hollow is located in Travis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Hollow
    • Tanglewood Forest
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Tanglewood Forest is located in Travis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanglewood Forest
  • Wilson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Zorn, with the one closest to Zorn listed first.
    • Nockenut
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • La Vernia
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Carpenter
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Carpenter is located in Wilson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carpenter
    • Union
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Zorn ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Zorn.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Zorn, with the one closest to Zorn 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Zorn had a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Zorn ...

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 115 newspapers that have been published in the area around Zorn.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Zorn, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Zorn.

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 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 Zorn:

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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Zorn) 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 Zorn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.