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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 Booker (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 Booker. 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 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.

Booker is located in Pulaski County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pulaski County: Faulkner, Grant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Perry & Saline.

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

  • Pulaski County     (The home county of Booker)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Booker, with the one closest to Booker listed first.
    • McAlmont
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • McAlmont is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAlmont
    • Sherwood
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Rose City
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Rose City is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose City
    • Argenta ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Argenta is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
    • Gravel Ridge
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Willowdale ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Willowdale is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowdale
    • North Little Rock
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Little Rock
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Gibson
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Gibson is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
    • Jacksonville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • College Station
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Cammack Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Cammack Village is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cammack Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 712 people
  • Faulkner County
  • Grant County
    • Ico ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Ico is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ico
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Booker, with the one closest to Booker listed first.
    • Plum Bayou ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Redfield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Wright
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Wright is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright
    • Tucker
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Tucker is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucker
    • Jefferson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jefferson is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
  • Lonoke County
  • Perry County
  • Prairie County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Booker, with the one closest to Booker listed first.
    • Screeton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Hickory Plains
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Hickory Plains is located in Prairie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hickory Plains
  • Saline County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Booker, with the one closest to Booker listed first.
    • Shannon Hills
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Shannon Hills is located in Saline County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shannon Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,087 people
    • East End
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • East End is located in Saline County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East End
    • Bryant
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Salem
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Salem is located in Saline County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
    • Avilla
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Bauxite
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Bauxite is located in Saline County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bauxite
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 555 people
    • Congo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Benton
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Shaw
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Kentucky
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • White County

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

Cemeteries Near Booker ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Booker.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Booker, with the one closest to Booker 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.<4>

While we didn't find Booker in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Booker.

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

  • McAlmont
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • McAlmont is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McAlmont
  • Argenta ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Argenta is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
  • Niemeyer ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Niemeyer is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niemeyer
  • Galloway
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Galloway is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galloway
  • Willowdale ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Willowdale is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willowdale
  • Little Rock
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Fourche ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Fourche is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fourche
  • Jacksonville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Kerr
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Kerr is located in Lonoke County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kerr
  • Sweet Home
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Sweet Home is located in Pulaski County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Home
  • Scott
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Cato
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cato is located in Faulkner County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cato
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Warsaw
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Warsaw is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warsaw
    • Olmstead
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Olmstead is located in Pulaski County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olmstead
    • Marche
      (10 miles [16.1 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 Booker. See our List of 1890's Communities around Booker.

Newspapers Published in Booker ...

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 237 newspapers that have been published in the area around Booker.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Booker, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Booker.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Booker:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Booker) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Booker, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.