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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 Lamar (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 Lamar. 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 and 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.

Lamar is located in Johnson 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 Johnson County: Franklin, Logan, Madison, Newton, Pope & Yell.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Lamar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lamar.

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

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

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

  • Blakeley Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Cazort Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Love Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Lewis Johnson Family Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Brown Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Canter Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Hickey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Macedonia Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Holly Redeemer Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Knoxville Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Hickey Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Maddin Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (394 more) ...
    • Reynolds Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Holman Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Price Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Lamar had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Lamar had a population of 1,729 people.

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

  • Knoxville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Knoxville is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knoxville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 754 people
  • Clarksville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Ludwig
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Spadra
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Lutherville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lutherville is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutherville
  • Hagarville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Dublin
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Dublin is located in Logan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dublin
  • Piney
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Ross
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Morrison Bluff
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Augsburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Zadock ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Zadock is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zadock
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Montana
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Montana is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montana
    • Georgetown
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Prairie View
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Prairie View is located in Logan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie View

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lamar ...

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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lamar.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lamar. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lamar and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lamar.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3> of Lamar.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Lamar:

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