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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 Cozy Nook (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 Cozy Nook. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Cozy Nook is located in Stevens 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 Stevens County: Ferry, Lincoln, Pend Oreille & Spokane.

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

  • Stevens County     (The home county of Cozy Nook)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cozy Nook, with the one closest to Cozy Nook listed first.
    • Chewelah
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Addy
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Waits
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Waits is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waits
    • Valley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Kulzer
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Kulzer is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kulzer
    • Grays
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Grays is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays
    • Colville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Loon Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Springdale
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Pinkney City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Pinkney City is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinkney City
    • Gifford
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Daisy
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Daisy is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
    • Rice
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Rice is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rice
  • Ferry County
  • Pend Oreille County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cozy Nook, with the one closest to Cozy Nook listed first.
    • Cusick
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Cusick is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cusick
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 224 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cusick <1>
    • Usk
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Dalkena
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Dalkena is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dalkena
    • Ruby
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Ruby is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby
    • Diamond City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Diamond City is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond City
    • Camden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Camden is located in Pend Oreille County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camden
  • Spokane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cozy Nook, with the one closest to Cozy Nook listed first.
    • Grays Landing
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Grays Landing is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays Landing
    • Deer Park
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Elk
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Cozy Nook ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cozy Nook.

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 Cozy Nook - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cozy Nook, with the one closest to Cozy Nook listed first.

  • Chewelah City Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Chewelah Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Summit Valley Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Stranger Creek Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evergreen Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Evergreen Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Colville.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #76777 <2>
  • Cully Memorial Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Zion Hill Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Meyers Falls Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Kewa Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Pleasant View Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Woodland Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Kelly Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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 Cozy Nook in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cozy Nook.

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

  • Chewelah
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Addy
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Valley
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Arden
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Arden is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden
  • Colville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Springdale
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Loon Lake
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Daisy
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Daisy is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daisy
  • Harvey ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Harvey is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey
  • Kettle Falls
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Hunters
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Deer Park
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Fruitland
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Marcus
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Marcus is located in Stevens County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcus
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people

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

Newspapers Published in Cozy Nook ...

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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cozy Nook.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cozy Nook, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cozy Nook.

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 Cozy Nook:

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 Cozy Nook, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cozy Nook) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.