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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Poluca. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Poluca to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Poluca, 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 Poluca (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 Poluca. 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Poluca is historic, it would have been located within present day Randolph 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 Randolph County: Clay, Greene, Lawrence, Sharp, Oregon (MO) & Ripley (MO).
Below are the counties that are near Poluca. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Poluca:
- Randolph County (The home county of Poluca)
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Brockett
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Brockett is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockett
- Skaggs
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Skaggs is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skaggs
- Pocahontas
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- 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 <2>
- Peru
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Peru is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Biggers
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Biggers is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Biggers
- Population from the 2020 Census: 342 people
- Attica
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Attica is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Attica
- Serene
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Serene is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Serene
- Manson
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Manson is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
- Maynard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Maynard is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Ingram
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Ingram is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
- Ingram has also been known as:
- Gooberhull
- Spikes
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Spikes is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spikes
- Birdell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Birdell is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdell
- Clay County
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Datto
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Datto is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Datto
- Population from the 2020 Census: 89 people
- Peach Orchard
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Peach Orchard is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
- Current View
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Current View is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Current View
- Success
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Success is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Success
- Population from the 2020 Census: 132 people
- Knobel
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Knobel is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knobel
- Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
- Corning
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Moark
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Moark is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moark
- McDougal
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- McDougal is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McDougal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 163 people
- Craighead County
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Bono
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Egypt
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Philadelphia
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Philadelphia is located in Craighead County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philadelphia
- Greene County
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Delaplaine
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Delaplaine is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaplaine
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Light
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Light is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Light
- Beech Grove
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Beech Grove is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Grove
- Stonewall
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Stonewall is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stonewall
- Crowley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Crowley is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowley
- Walcott
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Walcott is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walcott
- Lafe
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Lafe is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lafe
- Population from the 2020 Census: 458 people
- Finch
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Finch is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finch
- Oak Grove Heights
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- 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
- Pine Knot
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Pine Knot is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Knot
- Paragould
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Marmaduke
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Lawrence County
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- College City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- College City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for College City
- Estimated population in 2016: 506 people
- Walnut Ridge
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Black Rock
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Imboden
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Portia
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hoxie
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Powhatan
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Ravenden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Annieville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Annieville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annieville
- Sedgwick
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Minturn
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Minturn is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minturn
- Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
- Smithville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Smithville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithville
- Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
- Sharp County
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Williford
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Williford is located in Sharp County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
- Wirth
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Wirth is located in Sharp County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wirth
- Butler County (MO)
- Neelyville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Oregon County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Calm
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Calm is located in Oregon County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calm
- Myrtle
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Myrtle is located in Oregon County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Myrtle
- Garfield
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Garfield is located in Oregon County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
- Jeff
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Jeff is located in Oregon County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jeff
- Ripley County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Current View
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Current View is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Current View
- Ponder
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Ponder is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponder
- Gatewood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Gatewood is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gatewood
- Doniphan
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Briar
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Briar is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briar
- Oxly
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Oxly is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxly
- Naylor
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Naylor is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naylor
- Population from the 2020 Census: 585 people
- Gamburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Gamburg is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gamburg
- Bennett
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Bennett is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennett
- Fairdealing
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Fairdealing is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairdealing
- Bardley
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Bardley is located in Ripley County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bardley
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Poluca, see our County-by-County Page for Poluca.
Cemeteries Near Poluca ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Poluca.
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 Poluca - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Poluca covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Friendship Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Pettit Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Brimmage Cemetery
- The Brimmage Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brimmage Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #53191 <4>
- Johnson - McIlroy Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Sparkman Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparkman Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sparkman Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the northeast of Pocahontas.
- Be careful not to confuse this cemetery with another one that is also named Sparkman Cemetery (located 75 miles to the north).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56352 <4>
- Brockett Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- St. John Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Martin Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin Cemetery
- Be careful not to confuse this cemetery with another one that is also named Martin Cemetery (located 75 miles to the north).
- St. Paul Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Troy Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Randolph Memorial Gardens
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Dunn B. Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunn B. Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Dunn B. Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the east of Pocahontas.
- The Dunn B. Cemetery has also been known as:
- Dunn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #53747 <4>
- Continue List (336 more) ...
- Davis Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Harris Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Harris Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southwest of Maynard.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #54226 <4>
- Jones Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
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.
While we didn't find Poluca in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Poluca.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Poluca, with the one closest to Poluca listed first.
- Pocahontas
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- 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 <2>
- Brockett
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Brockett is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockett
- Peru
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Peru is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
- Attica
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Attica is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Attica
- Maynard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Maynard is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maynard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 379 people
- Ingram
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Ingram is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingram
- Ingram has also been known as:
- Gooberhull
- Birdell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Birdell is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birdell
- Noland
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Noland is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Noland
- O'Kean
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- O'Kean is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for O'Kean
- Population from the 2020 Census: 200 people
- Reyno
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- 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
- Middlebrook
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Middlebrook is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middlebrook
- Water Valley ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Water Valley is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Water Valley
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Murta
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Murta is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murta
- Supply
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Supply is located in Randolph County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Supply
- Peach Orchard
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Peach Orchard is located in Clay County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peach Orchard
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Poluca. See our List of 1890's Communities around Poluca.
Newspapers Published in Poluca ...
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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around Poluca.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Poluca, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Poluca.
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 Poluca:
- Websites specific to Arkansas
- Pages specific to Randolph County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Clay County
- Craighead County
- Greene County
- Lawrence County
- Sharp County
- Butler County
- Oregon County
- Ripley County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arkansas
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 Poluca, 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Poluca) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |