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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 Belvidere (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 Belvidere. 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 and hospitals 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.

Belvidere is located in Lamoille County.

To see how the shape of Vermont's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lamoille County: Caledonia, Chittenden, Franklin, Orleans & Washington.

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

  • Lamoille County     (The home county of Belvidere)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belvidere, with the one closest to Belvidere listed first.
    • Belvidere
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Belvidere is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
    • Belvidere Junction
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Waterville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Waterville is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 701 people
    • Eden
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Johnson
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Johnson is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,619 people
    • Johnson
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Eden
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Eden is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,364 people
    • Jeffersonville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Cambridge
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Cambridge is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,817 people
    • Hyde Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Hyde Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Hyde Park is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hyde Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,942 people
    • Cambridge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Caledonia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belvidere, with the one closest to Belvidere listed first.
    • Hardwick
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Hardwick is located in Caledonia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardwick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,839 people
    • East Hardwick
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • South Walden
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Stannard
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Sheffield
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Sheffield is located in Caledonia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheffield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 712 people
    • Stannard
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Stannard is located in Caledonia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stannard
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 217 people
    • Walden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Walden is located in Caledonia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 944 people
    • Wheelock
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Wheelock is located in Caledonia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 822 people
    • Sheffield
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Chittenden County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belvidere, with the one closest to Belvidere listed first.
    • Underhill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Underhill is located in Chittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Underhill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,076 people
    • Westford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Westford is located in Chittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,123 people
    • Westford
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Milton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Jericho
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jericho is located in Chittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,006 people
    • Jericho
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jericho Center
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Nashville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Pages Corner
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Checkerberry Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Checkerberry Village is located in Chittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Checkerberry Village
    • Milton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Milton is located in Chittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,907 people
    • Bolton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Bolton is located in Chittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,188 people
  • Franklin County
  • Grand Isle County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belvidere, with the one closest to Belvidere listed first.
    • North Hero
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • North Hero is located in Grand Isle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hero
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 807 people
    • Grand Isle
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Grand Isle is located in Grand Isle County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Isle
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,115 people
    • North Hero
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Orleans County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Belvidere, with the one closest to Belvidere listed first.
    • Lowell
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Lowell is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
    • Westfield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Westfield is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 491 people
    • Albany
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Mill Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Mill Village is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village
    • Craftsbury
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Craftsbury is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craftsbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,170 people
    • Albany Center
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Albany
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Albany is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 904 people
    • Troy
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Craftsbury
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • East Albany
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • East Craftsbury
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Jay
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jay is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jay
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 557 people
  • Washington County

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

Cemeteries Near Belvidere ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Belvidere.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Belvidere, with the one closest to Belvidere 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Belvidere had a population of 152 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Belvidere ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Belvidere.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Belvidere, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Belvidere.

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 Belvidere:

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