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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 Enosburg Falls (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 Enosburg Falls. 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 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.

Enosburg Falls is located in Franklin 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 Franklin County: Chittenden, Grand Isle, Lamoille & Orleans.

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

  • Franklin County     (The home county of Enosburg Falls)
  • Chittenden County
  • Grand Isle County
  • Lamoille County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Enosburg Falls, with the one closest to Enosburg Falls listed first.
    • Belvidere Junction
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Belvidere
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Belvidere is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
    • Belvidere
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Waterville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Waterville is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 701 people
    • Cambridge
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jeffersonville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Eden
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Eden is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,364 people
    • Eden
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Cambridge
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Cambridge is located in Lamoille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,817 people
    • Johnson
      (19 miles [30.6 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
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Hyde Park
      (23 miles [37 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
  • Orleans County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Enosburg Falls, with the one closest to Enosburg Falls listed first.
    • Westfield
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Westfield is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 491 people
    • Jay
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Jay is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jay
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 557 people
    • Lowell
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Lowell is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
    • Troy
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • North Troy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Troy
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Troy is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,519 people
    • Newport
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Newport is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,121 people
    • Albany
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Albany Center
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Albany
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Albany is located in Orleans County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 904 people
    • Craftsbury
      (26 miles [41.8 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
    • East Albany
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Clinton County (NY)

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

Cemeteries Near Enosburg Falls ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Enosburg Falls.

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 Enosburg Falls - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Enosburg Falls, with the one closest to Enosburg Falls 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 Enosburg Falls had a population of 1,300 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Enosburg Falls had a population of 1,284 people.

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

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

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 Enosburg Falls:

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 Enosburg Falls, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.