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 Oaklandon (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 Oaklandon. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.
Oaklandon is located in Marion County .
To see how the shape of Indiana's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries .
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Marion County : Boone , Hamilton , Hancock , Hendricks , Johnson , Morgan & Shelby .
Below are the counties that are near Oaklandon. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Oaklandon:
Marion County (The home county of Oaklandon)
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Lawrence (Less than 2 miles to the west)
Castleton (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Cumberland (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
Warren Park (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
Warren Park is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren Park Population from the 2020 Census: 1,574 people
Meridian Hills (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Meridian Hills is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meridian Hills Population from the 2020 Census: 1,718 people
North Crows Nest (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
North Crows Nest is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Crows Nest Population from the 2020 Census: 47 people
Williams Creek (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
Williams Creek is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Creek Population from the 2020 Census: 429 people
Crows Nest (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Crows Nest is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Nest Population from the 2020 Census: 75 people
Rocky Ripple (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
Rocky Ripple is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ripple Population from the 2020 Census: 653 people
Beech Grove (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
Spring Hill (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
Spring Hill is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill Population from the 2020 Census: 106 people
Charlesmac Village (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
Charlesmac Village is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlesmac Village Indianapolis (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
Boone County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Eagle Village (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
Eagle Village is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Village Zionsville (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
Whitestown (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
Gadsden (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
Gadsden is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gadsden Elizaville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
Elizaville is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizaville Lebanon (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ulen (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
Ulen is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ulen Population from the 2020 Census: 127 people
Northfield Village (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Northfield Village is located in Boone County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northfield Village Clinton County
Kirklin (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
Delaware County
Daleville (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
Hamilton County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Bridgewater (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Bridgewater is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgewater Fishers (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Luxhaven (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
Luxhaven is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luxhaven Olio (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Olio is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olio Newark Village (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
Newark Village is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newark Village Clarksville (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
Clarksville is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksville Carmel (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
North Ridge Village (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
North Ridge Village is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Ridge Village Durbin (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Durbin is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Durbin Monterey Village (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Monterey Village is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monterey Village Noblesville (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
Westfield (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
Cicero (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
Hancock County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
McCordsville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Woodbury (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Woodbury is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbury Mohawk (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Mohawk is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk Denny Corner (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
Denny Corner is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denny Corner Colonial Village (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Colonial Village is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colonial Village Fortville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Gem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Gem is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem Philadelphia (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Philadelphia is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philadelphia Spring Lake (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Spring Lake is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Lake Population from the 2020 Census: 231 people
Maxwell (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
Maxwell is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxwell Eden (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
Eden is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden New Palestine (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
Greenfield (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
Hendricks County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Brownsburg (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
Avon (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
Avon is located in Hendricks County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avon Population from the 2020 Census: 19,361 people
Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Avon <1>
Plainfield (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Pittsboro (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
Cartersburg (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
Henry County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Grant City (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
Grant City is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant City Kennard (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Kennard is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennard Population from the 2020 Census: 446 people
Knightstown (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
Cadiz (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
Cadiz is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadiz Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
Middletown (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
Greensboro (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Greensboro is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greensboro Population from the 2020 Census: 137 people
Ogden (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
Ogden is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogden Dunreith (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Spiceland (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
Sulphur Springs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
Sulphur Springs is located in Henry County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sulphur Springs Population from the 2020 Census: 371 people
Johnson County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Rocklane (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
Rocklane is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocklane Greenwood (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
New Whiteland (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
New Whiteland is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Whiteland Population from the 2020 Census: 6,350 people
Smith Valley (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
Smith Valley is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smith Valley Needham (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Whiteland (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Stones Crossing (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
Stones Crossing is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stones Crossing Urmeyville (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
Urmeyville is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Urmeyville Bluff Creek (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
Bluff Creek is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Creek Bargersville (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
Franklin (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
Banta (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Banta is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banta Providence (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Providence is located in Johnson County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Providence Kosciusko County
Warsaw (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
Madison County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Ingalls (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
Fishersburg (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
Fishersburg is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishersburg Lapel (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Pendleton (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
Markleville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
Perkinsville (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
Edgewood Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Edgewood Village is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood Village Edgewood (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
Edgewood is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood Population from the 2020 Census: 1,850 people
River Forest (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
River Forest is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Forest Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
Western Village (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
Western Village is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Western Village Anderson (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Woodlawn Heights (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
Woodlawn Heights is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlawn Heights Population from the 2020 Census: 73 people
Country Club Heights (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Country Club Heights is located in Madison County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club Heights Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
Morgan County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Red House ‑ Historic(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Red House is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red House Waverly (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Waverly is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waverly Young (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
Young is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Young Mooresville (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
Brookmoor (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
Brookmoor is located in Morgan County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookmoor Rush County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Carthage (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
Arlington (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Henderson (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Henderson is located in Rush County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henderson Manilla (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
Manilla is located in Rush County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manilla Homer (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
Homer is located in Rush County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Homer Mays (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
Mays is located in Rush County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mays Shelby County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Fountaintown (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
Fountaintown is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fountaintown Brookfield (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
Brookfield is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookfield London (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
London is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London Clover Village (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
Clover Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Village Morristown (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
Fairland (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
Boggstown (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
Gwynneville (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
Gwynneville is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gwynneville Beech Brook (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Beech Brook is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beech Brook Candleglo Village (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
Candleglo Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candleglo Village Knighthood Village (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
Knighthood Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knighthood Village Hildebrand Village (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
Hildebrand Village is located in Shelby County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hildebrand Village Shelbyville (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
Tipton County
The following are listed by their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
East Union (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
East Union is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Union Jericho ‑ Historic(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
Jericho is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jericho Hobbs (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Tipton (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
Goldsmith (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
Goldsmith is located in Tipton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldsmith
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Oaklandon, see our County-by-County Page for Oaklandon .
Cemeteries Near Oaklandon ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oaklandon.
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 Oaklandon - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Oaklandon covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Mock Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
McCord Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
Oaklandon Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the north)
Hoss Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
Todd Cemetery (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
McConnell Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
Wesley Chapel Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
Klepfer Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Salem Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Emery Cemetery (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
Pleasant Grove Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
Bills Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
Continue List (453 more) ...
Hopewell Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
Old Silvey Cemetery (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
Vine Cemetery (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
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 Oaklandon had a population of 238 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Oaklandon, with the one closest to Oaklandon listed first.
Lawrence (Less than 2 miles to the west)
McCordsville (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
Mount Comfort (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
Mount Comfort is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Comfort Woodbury (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
Woodbury is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodbury Castleton (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
Mohawk (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
Mohawk is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk Fishers (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
Gem (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
Gem is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem New Britton (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
New Britton is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Britton Fortville (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
Olio (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
Olio is located in Hamilton County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olio Philadelphia (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
Philadelphia is located in Hancock County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Philadelphia Continue List (14 more) ...
Brightwood ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Brightwood is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brightwood Irvington ‑ Historic(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
Irvington is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irvington Julietta (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
Julietta is located in Marion County Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Julietta
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Oaklandon. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oaklandon .
Newspapers Published in Oaklandon ...
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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oaklandon.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oaklandon, there are papers which were published within 7 miles [11.3 km]<4> Extended Newspaper List for Oaklandon.
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 Oaklandon:
Websites specific to Indiana Pages specific to Marion County Genealogy information for nearby counties
Boone County Clinton County Delaware County Hamilton County Hancock County Hendricks County Henry County Johnson County Kosciusko County Madison County Morgan County Rush County Shelby County Tipton County Cemetery Information and Directories for Indiana Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Oaklandon. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page .
The official website for State of Indiana: https://www.in.gov
Footnotes ...
<1> While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. 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 . 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 Oaklandon, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Oaklandon) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.