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 Warnick (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 Warnick. 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 northwest 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 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.
Warnick is located in Whatcom 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 Whatcom County: Okanogan, San Juan & Skagit.
Below are the counties that are near Warnick. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Warnick:
- Whatcom County (The home county of Warnick)
- The following are listed by their distance from Warnick, with the one closest to Warnick listed first.
- Glacier
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Maple Falls
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- Kendall
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Kendall is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kendall
- Peaceful Valley
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Peaceful Valley is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaceful Valley
- Welcome
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Welcome is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welcome
- Deming
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Clipper
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Clipper is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clipper
- Sumas
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Nooksack
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Nooksack is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nooksack
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,659 people
- Acme
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Clearbrook
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Clearbrook is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearbrook
- Everson
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Saxon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Saxon is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saxon
- Skagit County
- The following are listed by their distance from Warnick, with the one closest to Warnick listed first.
- Alger
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Alger is located in Skagit County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alger
- Hamilton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Lyman
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Concrete
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Sedro - Woolley
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Bow
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Warnick, see our County-by-County Page for Warnick.
Cemeteries Near Warnick ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Warnick.
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 Warnick - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Warnick covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Warnick, with the one closest to Warnick listed first.
- Kendall Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- St. Peters Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Van Zandt Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Yarrow Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Carman United Church Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Vedder View Gardens Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Nooksack Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Musselwhite Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- South Poplar Mennonite Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Saxon Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (25 more) ...
- Hazelwood Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelwood Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Hazelwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Abbotsford (BC).
- The Hazelwood Cemetery has also been known as:
- Matsqui Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2215972 <2>
- MacLure Road Mennonite Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for MacLure Road Mennonite Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the MacLure Road Mennonite Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Abbotsford (BC).
- The MacLure Road Mennonite Cemetery has also been known as:
- Hazelwood / McClure Road Mennonite Cemetery
- McClure Road Mennonite Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2215356 <2>
- Chilliwack Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
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 Warnick in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Warnick.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Warnick, with the one closest to Warnick listed first.
- Welcome
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Welcome is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welcome
- Deming
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sumas
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Nooksack
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Nooksack is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nooksack
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,659 people
- Goshen
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Goshen is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
- Acme
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Clearbrook
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Clearbrook is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearbrook
- Hampton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Hampton is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hampton
- Everson
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Wahl
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Wahl is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahl
- Saxon
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Saxon is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saxon
- Wickersham
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Wickersham is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickersham
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Van Wyck
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Van Wyck is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Van Wyck
- Silver Beach
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Silver Beach is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Beach
- Geneva
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Geneva is located in Whatcom County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Warnick. See our List of 1890's Communities around Warnick.
Newspapers Published in Warnick ...
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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Warnick.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Warnick, 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 Warnick.
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 Warnick:
- Websites specific to Washington
- Pages specific to Whatcom County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Washington
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 Warnick, 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 from Point A (ie- Warnick) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |