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 Cassoday (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 Cassoday. 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 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.
Cassoday is located in Butler 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 Butler County: Chase, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood, Harvey, Marion, Sedgwick & Sumner.
Below are the counties that are near Cassoday. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cassoday:
- Butler County (The home county of Cassoday)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Aikman
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Aikman is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aikman
- Chelsea ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Chelsea is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
- De Graff
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- De Graff is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Graff
- Pontiac
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Pontiac is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontiac
- Rosalia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Hopkins
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Hopkins is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopkins
- Prospect
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Prospect is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prospect
- El Dorado
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Potwin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Potwin is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Potwin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 438 people
- Midian
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Midian is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midian
- Keighley
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Keighley is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keighley
- Brainerd
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Brainerd is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brainerd
- Chase County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Matfield Green
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Wonsevu
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Wonsevu is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wonsevu
- Bazaar
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Bazaar is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazaar
- Clements
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Clements is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clements
- Cedar Point
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Cedar Point is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
- Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
- Gladstone
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Gladstone is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gladstone
- Cottonwood Falls
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Elmdale
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Neva
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Neva is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neva
- Neva has also been known as:
- Neva Station
- Strong City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Strong City is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strong City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 446 people
- Strong City has also been known as:
- Strong
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Strong City <1>
- Rockland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Rockland is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockland
- Ellinor
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ellinor is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellinor
- Greenwood County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Ivanpah
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ivanpah is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanpah
- Lapland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Lapland is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapland
- Reece
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Reece is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reece
- Eureka
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hamilton
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Madison
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Lyon County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Olpe
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Plymouth
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Plymouth is located in Lyon County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
- Marion County
- The following are listed by their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Burns
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Burns is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
- Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
- Florence
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Oursler
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Oursler is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oursler
- Peabody
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Peabody is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peabody
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,079 people
- Former name for Peabody:
- Coneburgh
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Peabody <1>
- Aulne ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Aulne is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aulne
- Marion
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cassoday, see our County-by-County Page for Cassoday.
Cemeteries Near Cassoday ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cassoday.
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 Cassoday - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cassoday covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Cassoday Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Matfield Green Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- High Prairie Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Chelsea Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Homestead Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Cedar Twp. Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Twp. Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Cedar Twp. Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the southeast of Florence.
- The Cedar Twp. Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wonsevu Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #94097 <2>
- Ridgeway Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Griffith Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Foster Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Ebenezer Methodist Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Pontiac Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Bazaar Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Continue List (83 more) ...
- Blankenship Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Ladd Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Highland Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 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.<4>
While we didn't find Cassoday in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cassoday.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cassoday, with the one closest to Cassoday listed first.
- Matfield Green
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Wonsevu
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Wonsevu is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wonsevu
- Chelsea ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Chelsea is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chelsea
- De Graff
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- De Graff is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Graff
- Ivanpah
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ivanpah is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivanpah
- Lapland
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Lapland is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapland
- Burns
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Burns is located in Marion County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burns
- Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
- Pontiac
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Pontiac is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pontiac
- Rosalia
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Summit
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Summit is located in Butler County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
- Thrall
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Thrall is located in Greenwood County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thrall
- Bazaar
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Bazaar is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bazaar
- Continue List (17 more) ...
- Clements
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Clements is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clements
- Cedar Point
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Cedar Point is located in Chase County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Point
- Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
- El Dorado
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cassoday. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cassoday.
Newspapers Published in Cassoday ...
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 159 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cassoday.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cassoday, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cassoday.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Cassoday:
- Websites specific to Kansas
- Pages specific to Butler County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Chase County
- Greenwood County
- Lyon County
- Marion 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> | 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- Cassoday) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Cassoday, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |