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 Blue Mound (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 Blue Mound. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.
Blue Mound is located in Linn 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 Linn County: Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Franklin, Miami, Bates (MO) & Vernon (MO).
Below are the counties that are near Blue Mound. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Blue Mound:
- Linn County (The home county of Blue Mound)
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Critzer
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Critzer is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Critzer
- Centerville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Centerville is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
- Mound City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Goodrich
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Goodrich is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
- Parker
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Parker is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker
- Population from the 2020 Census: 262 people
- Pleasanton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Prescott
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Prescott is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prescott
- Population from the 2020 Census: 268 people
- Cadmus
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Cadmus is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cadmus
- Boicourt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Boicourt is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boicourt
- La Cygne
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Linn Valley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Linn Valley is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linn Valley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 876 people
- Allen County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Mildred
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Mildred is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mildred
- Estimated population in 2019: 23 people
- Bayard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bayard is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayard
- Moran
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Moran is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moran
- Population from the 2020 Census: 509 people
- Moran has also been known as:
- Moran City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moran <1>
- La Harpe
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Elsmore
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Elsmore is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elsmore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
- Elsmore has also been known as:
- Elsinore
- Gas
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Gas is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 504 people
- Carlyle
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Carlyle is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlyle
- Iola
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Savonburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Savonburg is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savonburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
- Bassett
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bassett is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bassett
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
- Geneva
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Geneva is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geneva
- Leanna
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Leanna is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leanna
- Humboldt
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Anderson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Selma
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Selma is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
- Kincaid
(7 miles [11.3 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
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bush City is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush City
- Lone Elm
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Lone Elm is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Elm
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
- Welda
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Welda is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Welda
- Garnett
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Colony
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Colony is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony
- Population from the 2020 Census: 424 people
- Greeley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Mont Ida
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Mont Ida is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mont Ida
- Scipio
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Scipio is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scipio
- Glenlock
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Glenlock is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenlock
- Central City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Central City is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central City
- Former name for Central City:
- Jerome
- Central City has also been known as:
- Central
- Westphalia
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Westphalia is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westphalia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
- Bourbon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Xenia
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Xenia is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenia
- Mapleton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Mapleton is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
- Bronson
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Berlin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Berlin is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
- Devon
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Devon is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devon
- Fulton
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Uniontown
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Uniontown is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 261 people
- Redfield
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Redfield is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
- Barnesville ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Barnesville is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnesville
- Hammond
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Hammond is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammond
- Marmaton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Marmaton is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marmaton
- Petersburg
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Petersburg is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
- Rockford ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Rockford is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockford
- Coffey County
- Aliceville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Aliceville is located in Coffey County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aliceville
- Crawford County
- Hepler
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Hepler is located in Crawford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hepler
- Population from the 2020 Census: 133 people
- Franklin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Lane
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Lane is located in Franklin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane
- Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
- Lane has also been known as:
- Lane City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lane <1>
- Richmond
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Miami County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Fontana
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Fontana is located in Miami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fontana
- Population from the 2020 Census: 242 people
- Jingo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Jingo is located in Miami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jingo
- Osawatomie
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- New Lancaster
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- New Lancaster is located in Miami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lancaster
- Block
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Block is located in Miami County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Block
- Neosho County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Stark
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Stark is located in Neosho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
- Odense
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Odense is located in Neosho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odense
- Woodson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Neosho Falls
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Neosho Falls is located in Woodson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neosho Falls
- Population from the 2020 Census: 133 people
- Piqua
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Bates County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Hume
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Hume is located in Bates County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hume
- Population from the 2020 Census: 315 people
- Worland
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Worland is located in Bates County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Worland
- Amoret
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Amoret is located in Bates County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amoret
- Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
- Foster
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Foster is located in Bates County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster
- Population from the 2020 Census: 111 people
- New Home
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- New Home is located in Bates County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Home
- Amsterdam
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Vernon County (MO)
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Stotesbury
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Stotesbury is located in Vernon County (MO)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury
- Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people
- Richards
(27 miles [43.5 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
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Blue Mound, see our County-by-County Page for Blue Mound.
Cemeteries Near Blue Mound ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blue Mound.
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 Blue Mound - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Blue Mound covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Sunny Slope Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Pleasant View Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Blue Mound Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Boulware Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Stevenson Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Oakwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Osage Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Osage Valley Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Campbell Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Northway Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Shaw Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Kincaid Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Continue List (185 more) ...
- Fairview Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Mapleton Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Curry Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
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 Blue Mound had a population of 689 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Blue Mound had a population of 267 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Blue Mound, with the one closest to Blue Mound listed first.
- Xenia
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Xenia is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Xenia
- Critzer
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Critzer is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Critzer
- Selma
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Selma is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
- Kincaid
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Kincaid is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kincaid
- Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
- Mapleton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Mapleton is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mapleton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
- Bayard
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Bayard is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayard
- Mound City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Bush City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Bush City is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bush City
- Harding
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Harding is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harding
- Lone Elm
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Lone Elm is located in Anderson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Elm
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
- Bronson
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Berlin
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Berlin is located in Bourbon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Farlinville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Farlinville is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farlinville
- Goodrich
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Goodrich is located in Linn County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodrich
- Moran
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Moran is located in Allen County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moran
- Population from the 2020 Census: 509 people
- Moran has also been known as:
- Moran City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moran <1>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Blue Mound. See our List of 1890's Communities around Blue Mound.
Newspapers Published in Blue Mound ...
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 123 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blue Mound.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Blue Mound, 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 Blue Mound.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Blue Mound:
- Websites specific to Kansas
- Pages specific to Linn County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Allen County
- Anderson County
- Bourbon County
- Coffey County
- Crawford County
- Franklin County
- Miami County
- Neosho County
- Woodson County
- Bates County
- Vernon County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Kansas
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 Blue Mound, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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 from Point A (ie- Blue Mound) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |