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 Fivemile (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 Fivemile. 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 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.
Fivemile is located in Cleburne 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 Cleburne County: Faulkner, Independence, Stone, Van Buren & White.
Below are the counties that are near Fivemile. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fivemile:
- Cleburne County (The home county of Fivemile)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Drasco
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Drasco is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drasco
- Wolf Bayou
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Wolf Bayou is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Bayou
- Concord
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Concord is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord
- Population from the 2020 Census: 234 people
- Ida
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Prim
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Almond
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Almond is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almond
- Tumbling Shoals
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Wilburn
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Wilburn is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilburn
- Heber Springs
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Heber Springs is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heber Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,906 people
- Former name for Heber Springs:
- Sugar Loaf
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Heber Springs <1>
- Greers Ferry
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Miller ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Miller is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller
- Shiloh ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Shiloh is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
- Edgemont
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Faulkner County
- Enders
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Enders is located in Faulkner County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enders
- Independence County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Locust Grove
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Locust Grove is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
- Bethesda
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bethesda is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethesda
- Floral
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Floral is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floral
- Denieville ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Denieville is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denieville
- Desha
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Desha is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desha
- Southside
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Southside is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southside
- Cushman
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Cushman is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cushman
- Population from the 2020 Census: 457 people
- Batesville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Salado
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Salado is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salado
- Pleasant Plains
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Plains is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Plains
- Population from the 2020 Census: 356 people
- Moorefield
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Moorefield is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moorefield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
- Rosie
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Rosie is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosie
- Pfeiffer
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Pfeiffer is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pfeiffer
- Izard County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Guion
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Guion is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
- Population from the 2020 Census: 81 people
- Mount Pleasant
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Lunenburg
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Lunenburg is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lunenburg
- Jumbo
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Jumbo is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jumbo
- Melbourne
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Sage
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Sage is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage
- Bone Town
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Bone Town is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone Town
- LaCrosse
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- LaCrosse is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for LaCrosse
- Newburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Newburg is located in Izard County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newburg
- Sharp County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Sidney
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Sidney is located in Sharp County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sidney
- Population from the 2020 Census: 185 people
- Maxville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Maxville is located in Sharp County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxville
- Stone County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Marcella
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Marcella is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcella
- Pleasant Grove
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Grove is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Grove
- Mountain View
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Fox
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fox is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox
- Fifty-Six
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Timbo
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Onia
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Onia is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onia
- Alco
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Alco is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alco
- Van Buren County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Fairfield Bay
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Chalk ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Chalk is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalk
- Shirley
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Eglantine
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Eglantine is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eglantine
- Morganton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Morganton is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morganton
- Green Tree
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Green Tree is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Tree
- Bee Branch
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bee Branch is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Branch
- Choctaw
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Choctaw is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Choctaw
- Clinton
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Gravesville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Gravesville is located in Van Buren County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravesville
- White County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Davenport ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Davenport is located in White County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davenport
- Pangburn
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Clay
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Clay is located in White County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clay
- Sunnydale
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Sunnydale is located in White County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunnydale
- Letona
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Letona is located in White County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letona
- Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
- Rose Bud
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Bliss ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Bliss is located in White County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
- Center Hill
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Center Hill is located in White County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Center Hill
- Romance
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fivemile, see our County-by-County Page for Fivemile.
Cemeteries Near Fivemile ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fivemile.
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 Fivemile - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fivemile covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Macedonia Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Friendship North Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Harris Family Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Oak Grove Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Oak Grove Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the northeast of Drasco.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #55447 <3>
- Sipes Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sipes Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sipes Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the west of Drasco.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1972135 <3>
- Antioch Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antioch Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Antioch Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Drasco.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #52836 <3>
- White Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the White Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the east of Drasco.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56778 <3>
- Lancaster-Verser Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lancaster-Verser Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lancaster-Verser Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the southeast of Prim.
- The Lancaster-Verser Cemetery has also been known as:
- Verser Cemetery
- Woodrow Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56646 <3>
- Pleasant Ridge Union Church Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Ridge Union Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Ridge Union Church Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the southeast of Drasco.
- The Pleasant Ridge Union Church Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
- Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #55751 <3>
- Concord Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Concord Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Concord.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1972770 <3>
- Haywood Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Everett Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everett Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Everett Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the southeast of Prim.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #53832 <3>
- Continue List (261 more) ...
- Brownsville Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Miller Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miller Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Miller Cemetery is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<2> to the southeast of Drasco.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #55078 <3>
- Bellmore Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 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.<4>
While we didn't find Fivemile in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fivemile.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fivemile, with the one closest to Fivemile listed first.
- Wolf Bayou
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Wolf Bayou is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolf Bayou
- Ida
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Banner
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Banner is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
- Marcella
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Marcella is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marcella
- Almond
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Almond is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almond
- Tyler ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Tyler is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyler
- Saint James
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Saint James is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint James
- Bethesda
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bethesda is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethesda
- Heber Springs
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Heber Springs is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heber Springs
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,906 people
- Former name for Heber Springs:
- Sugar Loaf
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Heber Springs <1>
- Shiloh ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Shiloh is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shiloh
- Jamestown
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Jamestown is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
- Hiram
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Hiram is located in Cleburne County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hiram
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Denieville ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Denieville is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denieville
- Desha
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Desha is located in Independence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desha
- Mountain View
(16 miles [25.7 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 Fivemile. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fivemile.
Newspapers Published in Fivemile ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fivemile.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fivemile, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fivemile.
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 either 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 Fivemile:
- Websites specific to Arkansas
- Pages specific to Cleburne County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Faulkner County
- Independence County
- Izard County
- Sharp County
- Stone County
- Van Buren County
- White County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arkansas
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fivemile) 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 Fivemile, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |