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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 Urbanette (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 Urbanette. 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 doctors 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.

Urbanette is located in Carroll 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 Carroll County: Benton, Boone, Madison, Newton, Barry (MO), Stone (MO) & Taney (MO).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Urbanette ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Urbanette.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Urbanette, with the one closest to Urbanette 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>

While we didn't find Urbanette in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Urbanette.

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

  • Maple
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Maple is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple
  • Polo ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Berryville
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Yocum
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Yocum is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yocum
  • Oak Grove
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Green Forest
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Golden
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Junction ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Junction is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction
  • Winona Springs ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Rule
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Rule is located in Carroll County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rule
  • Blue Eye
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Baxter
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Baxter is located in Stone County (MO)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Oak Hill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Oak Hill is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Hill
    • Viola
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Viola is located in Barry County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viola
    • Coin
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Coin is located in Carroll County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin

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

Newspapers Published in Urbanette ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Urbanette.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Urbanette, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Urbanette.

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 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 Urbanette:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Urbanette) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Urbanette, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.