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 Lafe (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 Lafe. 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 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.
Lafe is located in Greene 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 Greene County: Clay, Craighead, Lawrence, Randolph & Dunklin (MO).
Below are the counties that are near Lafe. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lafe:
- Greene County (The home county of Lafe)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Stonewall
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Stonewall is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
- Oak Grove Heights
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Oak Grove Heights is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Grove Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,095 people
- Marmaduke
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Beech Grove
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Beech Grove is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Grove
- Paragould
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Crowley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Crowley is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowley
- Bard
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bard is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bard
- Delaplaine
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Delaplaine is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaplaine
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Pine Knot
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Pine Knot is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Knot
- Walcott
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Walcott is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Finch
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Finch is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finch
- Light
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Light is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Light
- Clay County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Knobel
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Knobel is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knobel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
- Peach Orchard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Peach Orchard is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
- Rector
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Corning
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- McDougal
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- McDougal is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDougal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
- Datto
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Datto is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Datto
- Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
- Moark
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Moark is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moark
- Greenway
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Greenway is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenway
- Population from the 2020 Census: 188 people
- Pollard
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Success
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Success is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
- Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
- Bell City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Bell City is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell City
- Piggott
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Nimmons
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Nimmons is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimmons
- Population from the 2020 Census: 64 people
- Craighead County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Red Onion
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Red Onion is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Onion
- Brookland
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Lake View
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Lake View is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View
- Monette
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Philadelphia
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Philadelphia is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philadelphia
- Black Oak
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Black Oak is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Oak
- Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
- Bono
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Lake City
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Jonesboro
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Lawrence County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- College City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- College City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College City
- Estimated population in 2016: 506 people
- Sedgwick
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Walnut Ridge
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Hoxie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Mississippi County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Arkmo
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Arkmo is located in Mississippi County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkmo
- Leachville
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Rington
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Rington is located in Mississippi County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rington
- Manila
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Randolph County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Reyno
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Reyno is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reyno
- Population from the 2020 Census: 391 people
- Former names for Reyno:
- Cherokee Bay
- Esselwood
- Needmore
- O'Kean
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- O'Kean is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Kean
- Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
- Biggers
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Biggers is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biggers
- Population from the 2020 Census: 342 people
- Serene
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Serene is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Serene
- Peru
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Peru is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Skaggs
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Skaggs is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skaggs
- Brockett
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Brockett is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockett
- Manson
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Manson is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
- Maynard
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Maynard is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Pocahontas
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Pocahontas is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,371 people
- Former names for Pocahontas:
- Bettis Bluff
- Betts Bluff
- Pokakhontas
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pocahontas <1>
- Middlebrook
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Middlebrook is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlebrook
- Attica
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Attica is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Attica
- Ingram
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Ingram is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
- Ingram has also been known as:
- Gooberhull
- Butler County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Neelyville
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Fagus
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Fagus is located in Butler County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fagus
- Oglesville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Oglesville is located in Butler County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oglesville
- Qulin
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Qulin is located in Butler County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Qulin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 459 people
- Dunklin County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Cardwell
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cockrum
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Cockrum is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cockrum
- Red Onion
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Red Onion is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Onion
- Arbyrd
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Arbyrd is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arbyrd
- Population from the 2020 Census: 458 people
- Senath
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Senath is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Senath
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,596 people
- Arkmo
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Arkmo is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkmo
- Rington
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Rington is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rington
- Caruth
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Caruth is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caruth
- Cotton Plant
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Cotton Plant is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton Plant
- Hornersville
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hornersville is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hornersville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 586 people
- Kennett
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- White Oak
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- White Oak is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Oak
- Rives
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Rives is located in Dunklin County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rives
- Population from the 2020 Census: 58 people
- Pemiscot County (MO)
- Gobler
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Gobler is located in Pemiscot County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gobler
- Ripley County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Naylor
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Naylor is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naylor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 585 people
- Current View
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Current View is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Current View
- Oxly
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Oxly is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxly
- Gamburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Gamburg is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamburg
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lafe, see our County-by-County Page for Lafe.
Cemeteries Near Lafe ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lafe.
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 Lafe - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lafe covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- St. Johns Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Lafe Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Talken Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Wright Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Epsaba Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Gainesville Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Friends Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- New Friendship Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Friendship Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the New Friendship Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the northeast of Oak Grove Heights.
- The New Friendship Cemetery has also been known as:
- Friendship Cemetery
- New Friendship Baptist Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #53951 <2>
- Hartsoe Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Hartsoe Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Old Liberty Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Rock Springs Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (277 more) ...
- Harveys Chapel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Cudd Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Bethlehem Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 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 Lafe in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lafe.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lafe, with the one closest to Lafe listed first.
- Gainesville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Gainesville is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gainesville
- Stonewall
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Stonewall is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
- Marmaduke
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Halliday
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Halliday is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halliday
- Knobel
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Knobel is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knobel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
- Crowley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Crowley is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowley
- Paragould
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Boydsville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Boydsville is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boydsville
- Peach Orchard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Peach Orchard is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
- Bard
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bard is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bard
- Rector
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Walcott
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Walcott is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Corning
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Finch
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Finch is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finch
- Bethel
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Bethel is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bethel
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Lafe. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lafe.
Newspapers Published in Lafe ...
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 36 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lafe.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lafe, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lafe.
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 Lafe:
- Websites specific to Arkansas
- Pages specific to Greene County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Clay County
- Craighead County
- Lawrence County
- Mississippi County
- Randolph County
- Butler County
- Dunklin County
- Pemiscot County
- Ripley 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> | 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lafe) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Lafe, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |