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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 Ozark (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 Ozark. 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 and doctors 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.

Ozark is located in Dale County and is the County Seat.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Dale County: Barbour, Coffee, Geneva, Henry, Houston & Pike.

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

  • Dale County     (The home county of Ozark)
  • Barbour County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ozark, with the one closest to Ozark listed first.
    • Elamville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Blue Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Clio
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Louisville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Louisville is located in Barbour County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 457 people
    • Bakerhill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Coffee County
  • Geneva County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ozark, with the one closest to Ozark listed first.
    • Bellwood
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Bellwood is located in Geneva County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellwood
    • Scranton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Malvern
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Dundee
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Chancellor
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Hartford
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Slocomb
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Coffee Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Coffee Springs is located in Geneva County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 220 people
    • Costilla ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Costilla is located in Geneva County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Costilla
  • Henry County
  • Houston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ozark, with the one closest to Ozark listed first.
    • Tidwell
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Tidwell is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tidwell
    • Dothan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Kinsey
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Kinsey is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinsey
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,293 people
    • Parker Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Parker Village is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Village
    • Taylor
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Taylor is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,440 people
    • Parish
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Webb
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Webb is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,479 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Webb <1>
    • Rehobeth
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rehobeth is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rehobeth
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,699 people
    • Cowarts
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Merritts Crossroads
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Avon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Avon is located in Houston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 510 people
    • Barber
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Keyton's
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Pike County

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

Cemeteries Near Ozark ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ozark.

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

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

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

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 Ozark had a population of 1,195 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Ozark had a population of 14,139 people.

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

  • Ewell
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Dillard
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Dillard is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dillard
  • Asbury
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Asbury is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asbury
  • Newton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Newton is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,451 people
  • Skipperville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Skipperville is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skipperville
  • Arguta
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Echo
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Echo is located in Dale County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
  • Daleville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Level Plains
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Midland City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Bertha
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Tennille
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Ozark ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ozark.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Ozark. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Ozark and those printed in the larger area surrounding Ozark.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<4> of Ozark.

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 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 Ozark:

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 Ozark, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Ozark) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.