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 Bay Center Junction (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 Bay Center Junction. 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 Bay Center Junction ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Bay Center Junction: Bay Ctr. Jct. (or less commonly used: Bay Cen. Jct., Bay Cent. Jct. or Bay Cntr. Jct.)
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 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.
Bay Center Junction is located in Pacific County.
To see how the shape of Washington's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pacific County: Clatsop (OR), Grays Harbor, Lewis & Wahkiakum.
Below are the counties that are near Bay Center Junction. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bay Center Junction:
- Pacific County (The home county of Bay Center Junction)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Bay Center
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Oysterville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- South Bend
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Tokeland
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Nahcotta
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Ocean Park
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Raymond
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Menlo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Menlo is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menlo
- Naselle
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Lebam
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Breakers
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Breakers is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Breakers
- Long Beach
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Seaview
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Grays Harbor County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Grayland
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Bay City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Bay City is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay City
- Laidlow
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Laidlow is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laidlow
- Ocosta
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Ocosta is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocosta
- Cohassett Beach
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Cohassett Beach is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cohassett Beach
- Markham
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Markham is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markham
- Westport
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Cosmopolis
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Aberdeen
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Grays Harbor City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Grays Harbor City is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Harbor City
- Hoquiam
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Junction City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Junction City is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction City
- South Aberdeen
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- South Aberdeen is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Aberdeen
- Lewis County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Pe Ell
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Doty
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Wahkiakum County
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Deep River
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Deep River is located in Wahkiakum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep River
- Grays River
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rosburg
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Altoona
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Altoona is located in Wahkiakum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altoona
- Dahlia
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Dahlia is located in Wahkiakum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dahlia
- Brookfield
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Brookfield is located in Wahkiakum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield
- Clatsop County (OR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Hammond
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Astoria
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Tongue Point Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Tongue Point Village is located in Clatsop County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tongue Point Village
- Warrenton
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bay Center Junction, see our County-by-County Page for Bay Center Junction.
Cemeteries Near Bay Center Junction ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bay Center Junction.
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 Bay Center Junction - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bay Center Junction covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Washington Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Fern Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Giesy Family Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Giesy Family Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Giesy Family Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northwest of Menlo.
- The Giesy Family Cemetery has also been known as:
- Kiel Colony Cemetery
- Willie Keil Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #641574 <3>
- Paceful Hill Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Lone Fir Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Salmon Creek Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Deep River Pioneer Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep River Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Deep River Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Deep River.
- The Deep River Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Deep River Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2232653 <3>
- Ilwaco Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Seal River Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rosburg Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Grays River Grange Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Eden Valley Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Forest Hill Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Sunset Memorial Park
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Ft. Stevens Post Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
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>
While we didn't find Bay Center Junction in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bay Center Junction.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Bay Center Junction, with the one closest to Bay Center Junction listed first.
- Bay Center
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Oysterville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- South Bend
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- North Cove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- North Cove is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Cove
- Willapa
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Willapa is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willapa
- Naselle
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Lebam
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Ocosta
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Ocosta is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ocosta
- Ilwaco
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Deep River
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Deep River is located in Wahkiakum County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep River
- Markham
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Markham is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markham
- Fort Canby
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Fort Canby is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Canby
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Knappton ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Knappton is located in Pacific County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knappton
- Grays River
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Artic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Artic is located in Grays Harbor County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artic
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bay Center Junction. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bay Center Junction.
Newspapers Published in Bay Center Junction ...
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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bay Center Junction.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bay Center Junction, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bay Center Junction.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Bay Center Junction:
- Websites specific to Washington
- Pages specific to Pacific County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Grays Harbor County
- Lewis County
- Wahkiakum County
- Clatsop County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Washington
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> | 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- Bay Center Junction) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <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 Bay Center Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |