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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Golden City. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Golden City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Golden City, please Contact Us.

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 Golden City (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 Golden City. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Golden City is historic, it would have been located within present day Logan 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 Logan County: Franklin, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Sebastian & Yell.

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

  • Logan County     (The home county of Golden City)
  • Crawford County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Golden City, with the one closest to Golden City listed first.
    • New Town
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • New Town is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Town
    • Kibler
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Kibler is located in Crawford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kibler
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,028 people
  • Franklin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Golden City, with the one closest to Golden City listed first.
    • Leon ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Leon is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon
    • Branch
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Charleston
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Donald ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Dahoma ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Dahoma is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dahoma
    • Etna
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Cecil
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Cecil is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecil
    • Denning
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Denning is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denning
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
    • Alix
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Alix is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alix
    • Altus
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Webb City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Webb City is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb City
    • Ozark
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Johnson County
    • Coal Hill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Montgomery County
  • Scott County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Golden City, with the one closest to Golden City listed first.
    • Cardiff
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Waldron
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Harvey
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Harvey is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harvey
    • Nebraska ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Nebraska is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nebraska
    • Parks
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Little Texas
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Winfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Boles
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Y City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Y City is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Y City
    • Gate ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Gate is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gate
    • Bates
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Bates is located in Scott County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bates
  • Sebastian County
  • Yell County

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

Cemeteries Near Golden City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Golden City.

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 Golden City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Golden City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Oliver Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Hopewell Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Hamby Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Logan Hall Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Bud Davis Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Ethan Davis Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Mixon Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Helton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Little Cauthron Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Lyles Chapel Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Oak Hill Memorial Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (290 more) ...
    • Thompson Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Logan Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Rocky Springs Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)

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.

Golden City itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Carolan
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Booneville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Sugar Grove
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Sugar Grove is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugar Grove
  • Cardiff
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Magazine
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Green Ridge
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Green Ridge is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Ridge
  • Olio
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Olio is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olio
  • Revilee
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Revilee is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Revilee
  • Chismville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Chismville is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chismville
  • Boothe
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Boothe is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boothe
  • Leon ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Leon is located in Franklin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leon
  • Blue Ball
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Blue Ball is located in Scott County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Ball
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Southern Home ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Southern Home is located in Yell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Home
    • Waldron
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Driggs
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Driggs is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Driggs

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

Newspapers Published in Golden City ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Golden City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Golden City, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Golden City.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Golden City:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Golden City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>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- Golden City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.