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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 Arnold (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 Arnold. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Arnold is located in Ness County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Ness County: Ellis, Gove, Hodgeman, Lane, Pawnee, Rush & Trego.

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

  • Ness County     (The home county of Arnold)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arnold, with the one closest to Arnold listed first.
    • Ransom
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Utica
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Laird
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Laird is located in Ness County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
    • Ness City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Beeler
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Beeler is located in Ness County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
    • Brownell
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Bazine
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Bazine is located in Ness County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazine
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
  • Lane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arnold, with the one closest to Arnold listed first.
    • Alamota
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Alamota is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
    • Shields
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Shields is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
    • Dighton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Healy
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Rush County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arnold, with the one closest to Arnold listed first.
    • McCracken
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Alexander
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Alexander is located in Rush County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alexander
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
  • Trego County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arnold, with the one closest to Arnold listed first.
    • Trego
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Trego is located in Trego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
      • Trego has also been known as:
      • Trego Center
      • Trego Tank
    • Collyer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Collyer is located in Trego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collyer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people
    • WaKeeney
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Ogallah
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Ogallah is located in Trego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogallah

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

Cemeteries Near Arnold ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Arnold.

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

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

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

  • Arnold Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Amish Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Prairie Chapel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Utica Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Ransom Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • North Star Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Dagenett Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Cyrus Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Vansburgh Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Brownwell Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Beeler Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (33 more) ...
    • Alanthus Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • White Rock Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Fairview Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)

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>

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

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

  • Ransom
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Utica
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Alanthus ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Alanthus is located in Gove County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus
  • Laird
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Laird is located in Ness County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laird
  • Beeler
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Beeler is located in Ness County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beeler
  • Ness City
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Brownell
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Alamota
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Alamota is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamota
  • Shields
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Shields is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shields
  • Bazine
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Bazine is located in Ness County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazine
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
  • Dighton
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • McCracken
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Riverside
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Riverside is located in Ness County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
    • WaKeeney
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Collyer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Collyer is located in Trego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collyer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 98 people

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

Newspapers Published in Arnold ...

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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Arnold.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Arnold, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Arnold.

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 Arnold:

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