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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 Hite (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 Hite. 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 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.

Hite 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 Hite. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hite:

  • Spokane County     (The home county of Hite)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hite, with the one closest to Hite listed first.
    • Deep Creek
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Deep Creek is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
    • Medical Lake
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Airway Heights
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Lakeland Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Lakeland Village is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeland Village
    • Silver Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Silver Lake is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Lake
    • Four Lakes
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Nine Mile Falls
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Marshall
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Marshall is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall
    • Tyler
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Tyler is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyler
    • Cheney
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Spokane
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Town and Country
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Town and Country is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Town and Country
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hite, with the one closest to Hite listed first.
    • Reardan
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Mondovi
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Mondovi is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mondovi
    • Long Lake
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Long Lake is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long Lake
    • Edwall
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Omans
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Omans is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omans
    • Davenport
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Bluestem
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Bluestem is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluestem
    • Rocklyn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Rocklyn is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocklyn
    • Harrington
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sprague
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Deer Meadows
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Deer Meadows is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Meadows
    • Earl
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Earl is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Earl
  • Stevens County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hite, with the one closest to Hite listed first.
    • Ford
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Tumtum
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Tumtum is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumtum
    • Wellpinit
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Wellpinit is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellpinit
    • Clavton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Clayton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Springdale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Loon Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Grays
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Grays is located in Stevens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grays

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

Cemeteries Near Hite ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hite.

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

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

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

  • Medical Lake Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • West Greenwood Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • St. Annes Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Spring Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lakes Memorial Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasant View Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Rockdale Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Green Mound Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Marshall Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Military Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Fairmount Memorial Park
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • 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>
  • Continue List   (41 more) ...

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Hite had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Deep Creek
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Deep Creek is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
  • Reardan
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Medical Lake
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Mondovi
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Mondovi is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mondovi
  • Omans
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Omans is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omans
  • Marshall
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Marshall is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marshall
  • Tyler
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Tyler is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyler
  • Cheney
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Spokane
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Davenport
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Hazard
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Hazard is located in Spokane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazard
  • Mead
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • East Spokane
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • East Spokane is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Spokane
    • Buckeye
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Buckeye is located in Spokane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
    • Rocklyn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Rocklyn is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocklyn

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

Newspapers Published in Hite ...

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 94 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hite.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hite, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hite.

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 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 Hite:

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