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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 Tamo (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 Tamo. 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 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.

Tamo is located in Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Arkansas, Cleveland, Grant, Lincoln, Lonoke & Pulaski.

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

  • Jefferson County     (The home county of Tamo)
  • Arkansas County
  • Cleveland County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tamo, with the one closest to Tamo listed first.
    • Pansy
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Annover ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Annover is located in Cleveland County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annover
    • Rison
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Toledo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Rye
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Staves
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Desha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tamo, with the one closest to Tamo listed first.
    • Mitchellville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Mitchellville is located in Desha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mitchellville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 327 people
    • Dumas
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Pickens
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Pickens is located in Desha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickens
    • Hopedale ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Hopedale is located in Desha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopedale
    • Pea Ridge
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Drew County
  • Lincoln County
  • Lonoke County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tamo, with the one closest to Tamo listed first.
    • Allport
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Allport is located in Lonoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
    • Humnoke
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Coy
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Coy is located in Lonoke County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coy
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 92 people

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

Cemeteries Near Tamo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tamo.

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

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

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

  • Marzel Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Gocio Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Nickelson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • New Hope Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Whites Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Macedonia Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Walstein Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • McBride Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Blackman Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Cherry Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Grady Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hawley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (231 more) ...
    • Wynn Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Garrett Cemetery
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Brent 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Tamo had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Grady
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Linwood
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Linwood is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linwood
  • Sarassa
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Sarassa is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sarassa
  • Yorktown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Yorktown is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yorktown
  • Swan Lake
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Swan Lake is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swan Lake
  • Noble Lake
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • English
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • English is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for English
  • Richardson
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Richardson is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardson
  • Madding
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Lake Farm
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Lake Farm is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Farm
  • Cornerstone
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • New Gascony
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • New Gascony is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Gascony
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Varner
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Lake Dick
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Lake Dick is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Dick
    • Cummins
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Cummins is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummins

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

Newspapers Published in Tamo ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tamo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tamo, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tamo.

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 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 Tamo:

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>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 Tamo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Tamo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.