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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 Cookville (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 Cookville. 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 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.

Cookville is located in Woodson 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 Woodson County: Allen, Anderson, Coffey, Greenwood, Neosho & Wilson.

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

  • Woodson County     (The home county of Cookville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cookville, with the one closest to Cookville listed first.
    • North Ridge ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • North Ridge is located in Woodson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Ridge
    • Rose
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Rose is located in Woodson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose
    • Athens
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Piqua
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Durand
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Yates Center
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Hasty
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Vernon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Neosho Falls
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Neosho Falls is located in Woodson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neosho Falls
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 133 people
    • Batesville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Toronto
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Allen County
  • Anderson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cookville, with the one closest to Cookville listed first.
    • Colony
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Colony is located in Anderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colony
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 424 people
    • Westphalia
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Westphalia is located in Anderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westphalia
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
    • Lone Elm
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Kincaid
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Kincaid is located in Anderson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kincaid
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 119 people
    • Mont Ida
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Welda
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Bourbon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cookville, with the one closest to Cookville listed first.
    • Bronson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Porterville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Rockford ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Rockford is located in Bourbon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockford
  • Coffey County
  • Greenwood County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cookville, with the one closest to Cookville listed first.
    • Virgil
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Neal
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Fall River
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Labette County
  • Neosho County
  • Wilson County

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

Cemeteries Near Cookville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cookville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cookville, with the one closest to Cookville 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 Cookville had a population of 35 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Cookville ...

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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cookville.

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

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 helpful 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 Cookville:

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 from Point A (ie- Cookville) 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 Cookville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.