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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Amy. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Amy to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Amy, 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 Amy (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 Amy. 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.

Name Variations for Amy ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Prior to its current name of Amy, it was known as Ellen.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southwest 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 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 west 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 Amy is historic, it would have been located within present day Lane County.

To see how the shape of Kansas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lane County: Finney, Gove, Hodgeman, Ness & Scott.

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

  • Lane County     (The home county of Amy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Amy, with the one closest to Amy listed first.
    • Dighton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Healy
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Healy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healy
      • Healy is located in Lane County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Healy <2>
    • Shields
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shields have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
      • Shields is located in Lane County
    • Alamota
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alamota have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
      • Alamota is located in Lane County
  • Finney County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Amy, with the one closest to Amy listed first.
    • Friend
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friend have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friend
      • Friend is located in Finney County
    • Ravanna ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
      • Ravanna is located in Finney County
  • Logan County
    • Elkader
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkader have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkader
      • Elkader is located in Logan County
  • Ness County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Amy, with the one closest to Amy listed first.
    • Beeler
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
      • Beeler is located in Ness County
    • Utica
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Laird
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Laird have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
      • Laird is located in Ness County
  • Scott County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Amy, with the one closest to Amy listed first.
    • Scott City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scott City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott City
      • Scott City is located in Scott County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,736 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Scott City <2>
    • Modoc
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modoc
      • Modoc is located in Scott County
    • Pence
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pence
      • Pence is located in Scott County

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

Newspapers Published in Amy ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Amy.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Amy, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Amy.

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 Amy:

Cemeteries Near Amy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Amy.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Sutton Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sutton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sutton Cemetery
  • Dighton Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dighton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dighton Cemetery
  • Shields Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shields Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shields Cemetery
  • White Rock Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Rock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Rock Cemetery
  • Scott County Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scott County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scott County Cemetery
  • Ward Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • The Ward Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dole Cemetery
    • Whipple Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ward Cemetery
  • Swedish Lutheran Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Swedish Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Swedish Lutheran Cemetery
  • Thomas Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thomas Cemetery
  • White Womans Grave
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Womans Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Womans Grave
  • Beeler Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beeler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beeler Cemetery
  • Pyramid View Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pyramid View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pyramid View Cemetery
  • Eminence Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Keystone Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Keystone Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Keystone Cemetery
    • Prairie View Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie View Cemetery
    • Emanuel Mennonite Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 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 Amy in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Amy.

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

  • Dighton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Manning
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Manning have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manning
    • Manning is located in Scott County
  • Healy
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Healy have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Healy
    • Healy is located in Lane County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Healy <2>
  • Shields
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shields have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
    • Shields is located in Lane County
  • Alamota
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alamota have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
    • Alamota is located in Lane County
  • Scott City
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Scott City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scott City
    • Scott City is located in Scott County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,736 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Scott City <2>
  • Beeler
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
    • Beeler is located in Ness County
  • Ravanna ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
    • Ravanna is located in Finney County
  • Utica
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Elkader
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkader have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkader
    • Elkader is located in Logan County
  • Modoc
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Modoc
    • Modoc is located in Scott County
  • Alanthus ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alanthus have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
    • Alanthus is located in Gove County
  • Pence
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pence
    • Pence is located in Scott County
  • Laird
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Laird have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
    • Laird is located in Ness County

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

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

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 Amy, 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>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Amy) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Amy. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4820, Longitude: -100.6018       In this case, the coordinates for Amy have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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