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Introduction ...

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

We've added Breezy Hill to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Breezy Hill, 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 Breezy Hill (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 Breezy Hill. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 Breezy Hill is historic, it would have been located within present day Crawford 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 Crawford County: Bourbon, Cherokee, Labette, Neosho, Barton (MO), Jasper (MO) & Vernon (MO).

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

  • Crawford County     (The home county of Breezy Hill)
  • Allen County
    • Savonburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Savonburg is located in Allen County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Savonburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
  • Bourbon County
  • Cherokee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Breezy Hill, with the one closest to Breezy Hill listed first.
    • Barrett ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Barrett is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barrett
    • Coal Valley ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Coal Valley is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coal Valley
    • Dutch Hollow ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Dutch Hollow is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Hollow
    • Weir
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Weir is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weir
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 634 people
    • Roseland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Roseland is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roseland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
    • Scammon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lawton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Carona
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Monte Carlo ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Monte Carlo is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monte Carlo
    • Stone City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Stone City is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stone City
    • East Mineral ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • East Mineral is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Mineral
    • Mackie
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Labette County
  • Neosho County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Breezy Hill, with the one closest to Breezy Hill listed first.
    • Saint Paul
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Stark
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Stark is located in Neosho County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stark
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66 people
  • Barton County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Breezy Hill, with the one closest to Breezy Hill listed first.
    • Burgess
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Burgess is located in Barton County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burgess
      • Estimated population in 2017: 54 people
    • Mindenmines
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Liberal
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Liberal is located in Barton County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
    • Nashville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Oakton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Lamar Heights
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Lamar Heights is located in Barton County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamar Heights
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
    • Irwin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Lamar
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Kenoma
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Bushnell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Milford
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Newport
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Jasper County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Breezy Hill, with the one closest to Breezy Hill listed first.
    • Opolis
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Medoc
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Asbury
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Asbury is located in Jasper County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Asbury <2>
    • Waco
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Waco is located in Jasper County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waco
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 93 people
    • Neck City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Neck City is located in Jasper County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neck City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 196 people
    • Jasper
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Purcell
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Alba
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Alba is located in Jasper County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alba
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 537 people
    • Carl Junction
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Smithfield
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Carytown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Carytown is located in Jasper County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carytown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 283 people
    • Oronogo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Oronogo is located in Jasper County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oronogo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,666 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oronogo <2>
  • Vernon County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Breezy Hill, with the one closest to Breezy Hill listed first.
    • Bronaugh
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Moundville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Sheldon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Deerfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Deerfield is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
    • Milo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Milo is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Richards
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Richards is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Nevada
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Bellamy
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Temple ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Temple is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple
    • Stotesbury
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Stotesbury is located in Vernon County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotesbury
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17 people

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

Cemeteries Near Breezy Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Breezy Hill.

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 Breezy Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Breezy Hill ...

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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Breezy Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Breezy Hill, 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 Breezy Hill.

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 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 Breezy Hill:

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 Breezy Hill, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Breezy Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.