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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 Prevost (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 Prevost. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Prevost is located in San Juan 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 San Juan County: Island, Skagit & Whatcom.

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

  • San Juan County     (The home county of Prevost)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Prevost, with the one closest to Prevost listed first.
    • Roche Harbor
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Waldron
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Waldron is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldron
    • Deer Harbor
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Eastsound
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Friday Harbor
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Orcas
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Shaw Island
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Shaw Island is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shaw Island
    • Argyle
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Argyle is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
    • False Bay
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Olga
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Lopez
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Lopez is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lopez
    • Lopez Island
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Lopez Island is located in San Juan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lopez Island
    • Decatur Island
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Skagit County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Prevost, with the one closest to Prevost listed first.
    • Urban
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Urban is located in Skagit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urban
    • Indian Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Indian Village is located in Skagit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
    • Alexander Beach
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Alexander Beach is located in Skagit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander Beach
    • Anacortes
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Whatcom County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Prevost, with the one closest to Prevost listed first.
    • Point Roberts
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Lummi Island
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Birch Bay
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kickerville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Kickerville is located in Whatcom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kickerville
    • Lummi
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Lummi is located in Whatcom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lummi
    • Marietta
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Marietta is located in Whatcom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marietta
    • Blaine
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Custer
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Ferndale
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Prevost ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Prevost.

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

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

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

  • Pender Island Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Holy Trinity Anglican Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • St. Stephen's Anglican Church Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Galiano Island Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Royal Oak Burial Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Shaw Island Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Congregation Emanu-El Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • St. John the Baptist Church Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Olga - Doe Bay Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Veteran's Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Quadra Street Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Ross Bay Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Harling Point Chinese Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Lopez Union Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 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 Prevost in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Prevost.

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

  • Roche Harbor
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Waldron
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Waldron is located in San Juan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldron
  • Friday Harbor
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Orcas
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Eastsound
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Argyle
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Argyle is located in San Juan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argyle
  • Olga
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Lopez Island
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Lopez Island is located in San Juan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lopez Island
  • Doe Bay
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Doe Bay is located in San Juan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doe Bay
  • Richardson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Richardson is located in San Juan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson
  • Decatur Island
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Beach
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Beach is located in Whatcom County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beach
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Birch Bay
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Mountain View
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Mountain View is located in Whatcom County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View
    • Guemes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Guemes is located in Skagit County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guemes

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

Newspapers Published in Prevost ...

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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Prevost.

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

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 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 Prevost:

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 Prevost, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Prevost) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.