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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 Concordia (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 Concordia. 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 and doctors 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.

Concordia is located in Cloud County and is the County Seat.

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 Cloud County: Clay, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Ottawa, Republic & Washington.

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

  • Cloud County     (The home county of Concordia)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Concordia, with the one closest to Concordia listed first.
    • Cook
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Huscher
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Rice
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Yuma
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Aurora
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Aurora is located in Cloud County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 55 people
    • Macyville ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Macyville is located in Cloud County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macyville
    • Ames
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Jamestown
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Jamestown is located in Cloud County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 258 people
    • Clyde
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Saint Joseph
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Oneonta ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Oneonta is located in Cloud County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneonta
    • Glasco
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Glasco is located in Cloud County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glasco
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 448 people
      • Former names for Glasco:
      • Dell Ray
      • Glasgow
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Glasco <1>
  • Clay County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Concordia, with the one closest to Concordia listed first.
    • Vining
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Vining is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vining
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 42 people
    • Browndale
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Morganville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Idana
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Oak Hill
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Garfield Center
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Oscar ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Oscar is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oscar
  • Jewell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Concordia, with the one closest to Concordia listed first.
    • Randall
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Formoso
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Montrose
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jewell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Jewell is located in Jewell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 396 people
  • Mitchell County
  • Ottawa County
  • Republic County
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Concordia, with the one closest to Concordia listed first.
    • Brantford
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Clifton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Palmer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Haddam
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Haddam is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haddam
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 97 people
      • Haddam has also been known as:
      • Haddam City
      • West Haddam
  • Thayer County (NE)

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

Cemeteries Near Concordia ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Concordia.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Concordia, with the one closest to Concordia 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Concordia had a population of 3,184 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Concordia had a population of 4,906 people.

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

  • Rice
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Yuma
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Talmo
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Talmo is located in Republic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmo
  • Macyville ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Macyville is located in Cloud County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Macyville
  • Aurora
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Aurora is located in Cloud County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 55 people
  • Norway
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Norway is located in Republic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norway
  • Ames
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Wayne
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Wayne is located in Republic County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayne
  • Jamestown
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jamestown is located in Cloud County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 258 people
  • Saint Joseph
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Clyde
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Oneonta ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Oneonta is located in Cloud County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneonta
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Kackley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Agenda
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Agenda is located in Republic County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Agenda
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 64 people
    • Scottsville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Concordia ...

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 118 newspapers that have been published in the area around Concordia.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Concordia. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Concordia and those printed in the larger area surrounding Concordia.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Concordia.

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 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 Concordia:

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 '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- Concordia) 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 Concordia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.