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 Fletcher (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 Fletcher. 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 northwest 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 north.
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 north 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.
Fletcher 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 Fletcher. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fletcher:
Franklin County (The home county of Fletcher)
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Binghamville (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Binghamville is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binghamville Fletcher (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Fletcher is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fletcher Population from the 2020 Census: 1,348 people
Fairfax (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
Fairfax is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax Population from the 2020 Census: 4,917 people
Fairfield (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Fairfield is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield Population from the 2020 Census: 1,973 people
Fairfield (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Bakersfield (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
North Fairfax (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
North Fairfax is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fairfax East Georgia (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
East Georgia is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Georgia Egypt ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
Egypt is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egypt Bakersfield (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Bakersfield is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakersfield Population from the 2020 Census: 1,336 people
Oakland (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
Oakland is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Georgia (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Georgia is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Georgia Population from the 2020 Census: 4,806 people
West Georgia (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
West Georgia is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Georgia Caledonia County
Hardwick (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Hardwick is located in Caledonia County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardwick Population from the 2020 Census: 2,839 people
Chittenden County
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Westford (6 miles [9.7 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 (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Westford is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westford Underhill (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Underhill is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Underhill Population from the 2020 Census: 3,076 people
Milton (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Checkerberry Village (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Checkerberry Village is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Checkerberry Village Pages Corner (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Pages Corner is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pages Corner Milton (12 miles [19.3 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
Jericho (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Essex Center (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Essex Center is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex Center Essex (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Essex is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Essex Population from the 2020 Census: 21,839 people
Miltonboro (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
Miltonboro is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miltonboro Jericho (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
Jericho is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho Population from the 2020 Census: 5,006 people
Colchester (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
Grand Isle County
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Grand Isle (18 miles [29 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 (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
North Hero is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Hero Population from the 2020 Census: 807 people
North Hero (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
Adams Landing (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Adams Landing is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adams Landing Keeler Bay (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Keeler Bay is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keeler Bay Pearl (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Pearl is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearl South Hero (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
South Hero is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Hero Population from the 2020 Census: 1,639 people
Isle La Motte (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Isle La Motte is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isle La Motte Population from the 2020 Census: 493 people
Isle la Motte (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
Alburg Center (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
Alburg Center is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg Center Alburg (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Alburg is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg Estimated population in 2011: 1,986 people
Alburg (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Alburg is located in Grand Isle County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alburg Estimated population in 2012: 499 people
Alburgh (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
Lamoille County
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Cambridge (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Jeffersonville (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Cambridge (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
Cambridge is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge Population from the 2020 Census: 3,817 people
Waterville (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Waterville is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterville Population from the 2020 Census: 701 people
Belvidere Junction (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
Belvidere Junction is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere Junction Johnson (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Johnson is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Population from the 2020 Census: 3,619 people
Johnson (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
Belvidere (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
Belvidere is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere Belvidere (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
Belvidere is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere Population from the 2020 Census: 362 people
Hyde Park (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
Cadys Falls (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Cadys Falls is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadys Falls Morristown (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Morristown is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morristown Population from the 2020 Census: 5,549 people
Stowe (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
Stowe is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stowe Population from the 2020 Census: 4,447 people
Orleans County
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Lowell (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Lowell is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell Population from the 2020 Census: 780 people
Craftsbury (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Craftsbury is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Craftsbury Population from the 2020 Census: 1,170 people
Westfield (25 miles [40.2 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 (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Craftsbury (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Mill Village (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Mill Village is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village Albany Center (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Albany Center is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Center Albany (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Albany is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albany Population from the 2020 Census: 904 people
East Craftsbury (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
East Craftsbury is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Craftsbury East Albany (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
East Albany is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Albany South Albany (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
South Albany is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Albany Jay (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Jay is located in Orleans County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jay Population from the 2020 Census: 557 people
Troy (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
Washington County
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Waterbury (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Waterbury is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterbury Population from the 2020 Census: 5,160 people
Mill Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Mill Village is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill Village Waterbury (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
Worcester (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Worcester is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worcester Population from the 2020 Census: 1,028 people
Duxbury (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Duxbury is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duxbury Population from the 2020 Census: 1,307 people
Worcester (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Middlesex (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Middlesex is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlesex Population from the 2020 Census: 1,724 people
Maple Corner (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Maple Corner is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Corner Middlesex (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Woodbury (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
Moretown (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
Moretown is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moretown Population from the 2020 Census: 1,664 people
Calais (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
North Calais (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
North Calais is located in Washington County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Calais Clinton County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Cumberland Head (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Cumberland Head is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cumberland Head Point Au Roche (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Point Au Roche is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Au Roche Parc (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Parc is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parc Plattsburgh (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Ingraham (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
Ingraham is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingraham Chazy (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ausable Chasm (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Ausable Chasm is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ausable Chasm Beekmantown (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Beekmantown is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beekmantown Laphams Mills (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
Laphams Mills is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laphams Mills Coopersville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Coopersville is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coopersville Rouses Point (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Village of Keeseville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Village of Keeseville is located in Clinton County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Village of Keeseville Estimated population in 2015: 1,750 people
Peru (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
Essex County (NY)
The following are listed by their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Port Kent (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Port Douglass (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Port Douglass is located in Essex County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Douglass Willsboro Point (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Willsboro Point is located in Essex County (NY) Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willsboro Point Keeseville (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fletcher, see our County-by-County Page for Fletcher .
Cemeteries Near Fletcher ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fletcher.
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 Fletcher - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fletcher covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Binghamville Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Pioneer Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
Mudgett Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
Spafford Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Giddings Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
River Road Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Gates Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
North Cambridge Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
Sanderson Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Mountainview Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Westford Plains Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
North Underhill Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
Continue List (358 more) ...
Cobler Hill Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
Jeffersonville Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
Safford Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
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.<2>
While we didn't find Fletcher in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fletcher.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fletcher, with the one closest to Fletcher listed first.
Binghamville (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Binghamville is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binghamville North Cambridge (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
North Cambridge is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cambridge Cambridge (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Fairfax (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
East Fletcher (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
East Fletcher is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fletcher Jeffersonville (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Cambridge Junction (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
Cambridge Junction is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cambridge Junction Westford (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
Westford is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westford North Underhill (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
North Underhill is located in Chittenden County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Underhill Waterville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Waterville is located in Lamoille County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterville East Fairfield (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Fairfield (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
Continue List (13 more) ...
Bakersfield (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
North Fairfax (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
North Fairfax is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fairfax East Georgia (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
East Georgia is located in Franklin County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Georgia
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fletcher. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fletcher .
Newspapers Published in Fletcher ...
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 84 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fletcher.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fletcher, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> Extended Newspaper List for Fletcher.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Fletcher:
Websites specific to Vermont Pages specific to Franklin County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Caledonia County Chittenden County Grand Isle County Lamoille County Orleans County Washington County Clinton County Essex County Cemetery Information and Directories for Vermont Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Fletcher. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Vermont: https://www.vermont.gov/
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 Fletcher, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Fletcher) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.