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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Port Crescent. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Port Crescent to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Port Crescent, please Contact Us.

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 Port Crescent (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 Port Crescent. 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 Port Crescent ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Port Crescent: Prt. Crescent

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Port Crescent is historic, it would have been located within present day Clallam County.

To see how the shape of Washington's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

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

  • Clallam County     (The home county of Port Crescent)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Port Crescent, with the one closest to Port Crescent listed first.
    • Joyce
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Elwha
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwha
      • Elwha is located in Clallam County
    • Twin
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin
      • Twin is located in Clallam County
    • Port Angeles
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Little Oklahoma
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Oklahoma
      • Little Oklahoma is located in Clallam County
    • Clallam Bay
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Carlsborg
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Old Town
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Old Town have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
      • Old Town is located in Clallam County
    • Sekiu
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • River Road
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Road
      • River Road is located in Clallam County
    • Sequim
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Beaver
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Port Crescent ...

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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Port Crescent.

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

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 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 Port Crescent:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

Cemeteries Near Port Crescent ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Port Crescent.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Port Crescent Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Ocean View Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ocean View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ocean View Cemetery
  • Muir Family Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Sooke Millenium Memorial Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sooke Millenium Memorial Park is located in Sooke (BC).
    • The Sooke Millenium Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Millenium Memorial Park
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sooke Millenium Memorial Park
  • Sooke Harbour Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Mt. Angeles Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Angeles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Angeles Cemetery
  • St. Mary's Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mary's Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Metchosin (BC)
    • The St. Mary's Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Metchosin Pioneer Cemetery
    • St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church Cemetery
    • St. Mary The Virgin Church Yard Cemetery
    • St. Mary The Virgin Churchyard Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Mary's Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459848 <5>
  • Colwood Pioneer Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Hatley Memorial Gardens
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Ross Bay Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Quadra Street Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Veteran's Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Old Clallam Bay Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Clallam Bay Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Clallam Bay Cemetery
    • Harling Point Chinese Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 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.

Port Crescent itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 364 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Twin
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin
    • Twin is located in Clallam County
  • Fairholm
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairholm have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairholm
    • Fairholm is located in Clallam County
  • Port Angeles
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Pysht ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pysht have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pysht
    • Pysht is located in Clallam County
  • Rena
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rena have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rena
    • Rena is located in Clallam County
  • Clallam Bay
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Beaver
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

The official website for Clallam County: www.clallam.net/

The official website for State of Washington: https://access.wa.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Port Crescent, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Port Crescent) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Port Crescent. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.1607, Longitude: -123.7315    
<5>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.




 

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