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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 Leahy (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 Leahy. 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 northeast 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 north.

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 north 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.

Leahy is located in Douglas 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 Douglas County: Chelan, Grant, Kittitas, Lincoln & Okanogan.

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

  • Douglas County     (The home county of Leahy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leahy, with the one closest to Leahy listed first.
    • Osborne Corner
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Osborne Corner is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osborne Corner
    • Mold ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Mold is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mold
    • Mansfield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Bridgeport
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Coulee Dam
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Withrow
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Withrow is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Withrow
    • Beebe
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Beebe is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beebe
  • Chelan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leahy, with the one closest to Leahy listed first.
    • Chelan Falls
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Chelan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Grant County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leahy, with the one closest to Leahy listed first.
    • Electric City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Grand Coulee
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Banks Lake South
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Banks Lake South is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banks Lake South
    • Hartline
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Coulee City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leahy, with the one closest to Leahy listed first.
    • Almira
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hesseltine ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Hesseltine is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesseltine
  • Okanogan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Leahy, with the one closest to Leahy listed first.
    • Mason City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Mason City is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason City
    • Elmer City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Monse
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Monse is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monse
    • Brewster
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Virginia City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Virginia City is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia City
    • Nespelem
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Nespelem is located in Okanogan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nespelem
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 245 people
    • Pateros
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Malott
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Leahy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Leahy.

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

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

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

  • Buckingham Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Mold Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Danish Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • St. Andrews Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Jameson Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Coulee City Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Spring Canyon Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Ft. Okanogan Memorial Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Welsh Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Lafollette Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Locust Grove Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Almira Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 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 Leahy in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Leahy.

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

  • Saint Andrews
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Saint Andrews is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Andrews
  • Thompson ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Thompson is located in Okanogan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thompson
  • Almira
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Ophir
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Ophir is located in Okanogan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
  • Hesseltine ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Hesseltine is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hesseltine
  • Govan ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Govan is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Govan
  • Malott
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Leahy ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Leahy.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Leahy:

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 Leahy, 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- Leahy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.