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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 Hayford (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 Hayford. 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.

Hayford is located in Spokane 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 Spokane County: Benewah (ID), Bonner (ID), Kootenai (ID), Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens & Whitman.

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

  • Spokane County     (The home county of Hayford)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hayford, with the one closest to Hayford listed first.
    • Airway Heights
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Four Lakes
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Marshall
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Marshall is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall
    • Medical Lake
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Silver Lake
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Silver Lake is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
    • Cheney
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Lakeland Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Lakeland Village is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeland Village
    • Deep Creek
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Deep Creek is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
    • Spokane
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Town and Country
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Town and Country is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town and Country
    • Nine Mile Falls
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Hillyard
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Hillyard is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillyard
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hayford, with the one closest to Hayford listed first.
    • Reardan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Edwall
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Long Lake
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Long Lake is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
    • Mondovi
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Mondovi is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mondovi
    • Omans
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Omans is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omans
    • Bluestem
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Bluestem is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluestem
    • Davenport
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Sprague
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Stevens County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hayford, with the one closest to Hayford listed first.
    • Tumtum
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Tumtum is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumtum
    • Ford
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Clavton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Clayton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Wellpinit
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Wellpinit is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellpinit
  • Whitman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hayford, with the one closest to Hayford listed first.
    • Malden
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Pine City ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Pine City is located in Whitman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine City
    • Rosalia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Kootenai County (ID)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hayford, with the one closest to Hayford listed first.
    • State Line Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • State Line Village is located in Kootenai County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line Village
    • State Line
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • State Line is located in Kootenai County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for State Line
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
    • Hauser
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Hauser is located in Kootenai County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hauser
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 726 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hauser <1>
    • Post Falls
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Bellgrove
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Bellgrove is located in Kootenai County (ID)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellgrove

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

Cemeteries Near Hayford ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hayford.

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

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

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

  • Marshall Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Annes Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Spokane Memorial Gardens Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Greenwood Memorial Terrace Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Nebo Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Lakes Memorial Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Green Mound Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Riverside Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Military Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Medical Lake Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Fairmount Memorial Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairmount Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Fairmount Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Spokane.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #76786 <2>
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (50 more) ...
    • New England Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Moran Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Holy Cross Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Marshall
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Marshall is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall
  • Medical Lake
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cheney
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Deep Creek
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Deep Creek is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
  • Spokane
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Hite
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Hite is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hite
  • East Spokane
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • East Spokane is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Spokane
  • Spangle
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Chester
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Chester is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chester
  • Mead
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Tyler
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Tyler is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyler
  • Reardan
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Mica
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Mica is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mica
    • Freeman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Freeman is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
    • Buckeye
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Buckeye is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye

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

Newspapers Published in Hayford ...

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 112 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hayford.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hayford, 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 Hayford.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Hayford:

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