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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 Prosper (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 Prosper. 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 Prosper ...

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.

Another variation: English Mills.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Prosper. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Prosper.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Prosper is located in Windsor 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 Windsor County: Grafton (NH), Sullivan (NH), Addison, Bennington, Orange, Rutland & Windham.

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

  • Windsor County     (The home county of Prosper)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Prosper, with the one closest to Prosper listed first.
    • South Pomfret
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Woodstock
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Woodstock
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Woodstock is located in Windsor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodstock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,911 people
    • Pomfret
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Pomfret is located in Windsor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomfret
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 849 people
    • South Woodstock
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Bridgewater
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Bridgewater is located in Windsor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 967 people
    • Quechee
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Barnard
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Barnard is located in Windsor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnard
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 929 people
    • Barnard
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hartford
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Hartford is located in Windsor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,566 people
    • Hartland
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Hartland is located in Windsor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,513 people
    • Fieldsville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Addison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Prosper, with the one closest to Prosper listed first.
    • Hancock
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Hancock
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Hancock is located in Addison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hancock
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 334 people
    • Lower Granville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Goshen
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Goshen is located in Addison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
    • Granville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Granville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Granville is located in Addison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 308 people
    • Leicester
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Leicester is located in Addison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leicester
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,096 people
  • Bennington County
    • Landgrove
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Landgrove is located in Bennington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Landgrove
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
  • Orange County
  • Rutland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Prosper, with the one closest to Prosper listed first.
    • West Bridgewater
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Killington
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Killington is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 749 people
    • Killington Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Killington Village is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Killington Village
    • Sherburne
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Telemark Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Telemark Village is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Telemark Village
    • Pittsfield
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Shrewsbury
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Shrewsbury is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shrewsbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 979 people
    • Mendon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Mendon is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,015 people
    • Pittsfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Pittsfield is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 551 people
    • Healdville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Chittenden
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Chittenden is located in Rutland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chittenden
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,170 people
    • Mendon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Washington County
    • Roxbury
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Roxbury is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roxbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 709 people
  • Windham County
  • Grafton County (NH)
  • Sullivan County (NH)

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

Cemeteries Near Prosper ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Prosper.

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

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

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

While we didn't find Prosper in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Prosper.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Prosper ...

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 69 newspapers that have been published in the area around Prosper.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Prosper, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Prosper.

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 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 Prosper:

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 Prosper, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Prosper) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.