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Introduction ...

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Barnesville is historic, it would have been located within present day Bourbon 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 Bourbon County: Allen, Anderson, Crawford, Linn, Neosho & Vernon (MO).

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

  • Bourbon County     (The home county of Barnesville)
  • Allen County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barnesville, with the one closest to Barnesville listed first.
    • Bayard
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Mildred
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Mildred is located in Allen County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mildred
      • Estimated population in 2019: 23 people
    • Moran
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Elsmore
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Anderson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barnesville, with the one closest to Barnesville listed first.
    • Selma
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Kincaid
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Kincaid is located in Anderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kincaid
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
    • Bush City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Bush City is located in Anderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush City
  • Crawford County
  • Linn County
  • Miami County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barnesville, with the one closest to Barnesville listed first.
    • Jingo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Fontana
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Fontana is located in Miami County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontana
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 242 people
  • Bates County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barnesville, with the one closest to Barnesville listed first.
    • Hume
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Hume is located in Bates County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hume
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
    • Worland
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Foster
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • New Home
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Rich Hill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Amoret
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Nyhart
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Amsterdam
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Butler
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Prairie City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Prairie City is located in Bates County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie City
    • Merwin
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Passaic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Passaic is located in Bates County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Passaic
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
  • Vernon County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barnesville, with the one closest to Barnesville listed first.
    • Stotesbury
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Stotesbury is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
    • Richards
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Richards is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Metz
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Deerfield
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Deerfield is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
    • Temple ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Temple is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple
    • Horton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Horton is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horton
    • Moundville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Nevada
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Walker
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Walker is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 253 people
    • Bronaugh
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Milo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Milo is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Harwood
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Harwood is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 45 people

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

Cemeteries Near Barnesville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Barnesville.

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

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

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

Barnesville itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 52 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Fulton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Hammond
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Hume
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Hume is located in Bates County (MO)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hume
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
  • Wolfe ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Wolfe is located in Vernon County (MO)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wolfe
  • Harding
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Harding is located in Bourbon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harding
  • Richards
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Richards is located in Vernon County (MO)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
  • Rinehart
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Rinehart is located in Vernon County (MO)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rinehart
  • Pleasanton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Mound City
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Mapleton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Fort Scott
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Eve
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Eve is located in Vernon County (MO)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eve
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Metz
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Sprague
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Sprague is located in Bates County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprague
    • Worland
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Barnesville ...

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 193 newspapers that have been published in the area around Barnesville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Barnesville, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Barnesville.

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 Barnesville:

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 Barnesville, 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 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Barnesville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.