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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 Tyronza (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 Tyronza. 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 and 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.

Tyronza is located in Poinsett 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 Poinsett County: Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Jackson & Mississippi.

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

  • Poinsett County     (The home county of Tyronza)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tyronza, with the one closest to Tyronza listed first.
    • Black Oak
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Black Oak is located in Poinsett County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Oak
    • Marked Tree
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Alto
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Lepanto
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Rivervale
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Rivervale is located in Poinsett County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rivervale
    • Hatchie Coon
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Trumann
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Harrisburg
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Greenfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Craighead County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tyronza, with the one closest to Tyronza listed first.
    • Caraway
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Bay
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Black Oak
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Black Oak is located in Craighead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Black Oak
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 259 people
    • Lake City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Monette
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Lake View
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Lake View is located in Craighead County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake View
    • Jonesboro
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Crittenden County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tyronza, with the one closest to Tyronza listed first.
    • Gilmore
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Gilmore is located in Crittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilmore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
    • Heafer
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Poindexter
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Turrell
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Clarkedale
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jericho
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Earle
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • James Mill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Crawfordsville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Sunset
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Sunset is located in Crittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 199 people
    • Marion
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jennette
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jennette is located in Crittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jennette
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
    • Mound City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Mound City is located in Crittenden County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mound City
  • Cross County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tyronza, with the one closest to Tyronza listed first.
    • Twist
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Twist is located in Cross County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twist
    • Parkin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Bay Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Bay Village is located in Cross County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bay Village
    • Cherry Valley
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Levesque
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Vanndale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Wynne
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Mississippi County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tyronza, with the one closest to Tyronza listed first.
    • Birdsong
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Whitton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Denwood
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Frenchmans Bayou
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Dyess
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Dyess is located in Mississippi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dyess
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 358 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dyess <1>
    • Bardstown
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Joiner
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Bassett
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • West Ridge
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • West Ridge is located in Mississippi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Ridge
    • Athelstan
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Etowah
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Etowah is located in Mississippi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etowah
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
    • Marie
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Marie is located in Mississippi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marie
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 70 people
    • Wilson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Wilson is located in Mississippi County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 803 people
  • Saint Francis County
    • Heth
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Lauderdale County (TN)
  • Shelby County (TN)
  • Tipton County (TN)

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

Cemeteries Near Tyronza ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tyronza.

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

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

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

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Tyronza had railroad service and no post office. In 2020, Tyronza had a population of 712 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Tyronza ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tyronza.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tyronza, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tyronza.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Tyronza:

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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Tyronza) 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 Tyronza, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.