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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 Easton (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 Easton. 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.

Name Variations for Easton ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Prior to its current name of Easton, it was known as Eastin.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Easton. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Easton.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Easton is located in Leavenworth 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 Leavenworth County: Atchison, Douglas, Jefferson, Johnson, Wyandotte & Platte (MO).

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

  • Leavenworth County     (The home county of Easton)
  • Atchison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Easton, with the one closest to Easton listed first.
    • Potter
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Oak Mills
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Port Williams
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Cummings
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Cummings is located in Atchison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cummings
    • Atchison
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Farmington
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Monrovia
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Goodintent ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Goodintent is located in Atchison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodintent
    • Lancaster
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Lancaster is located in Atchison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lancaster
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 282 people
    • Effingham
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Huron
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Arrington
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Muscotah
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Brown County
  • Doniphan County
  • Douglas County
  • Jackson County
  • Jefferson County
  • Johnson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Easton, with the one closest to Easton listed first.
    • Wilder
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Holliday
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • De Soto
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Monticello
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Clearview City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Lake Quivira
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Lake Quivira is located in Johnson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Quivira
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 930 people
    • Shawnee
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Zarah
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Shawnee County
  • Wyandotte County
  • Buchanan County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Easton, with the one closest to Easton listed first.
    • Lewis and Clark Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Lewis and Clark Village is located in Buchanan County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewis and Clark Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 127 people
    • Rushville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • De Kalb
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • De Kalb is located in Buchanan County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Kalb
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 222 people
    • Faucett
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Willow Brook
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Agency
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Matney
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Clay County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Easton, with the one closest to Easton listed first.
    • Barry
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Barry is located in Clay County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barry
    • Nashua
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Smithville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Linden
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Oaks
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Oaks is located in Clay County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
    • Oakview
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Oakview is located in Clay County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakview
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 393 people
    • Oakwood Park
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Oakwood Park is located in Clay County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 198 people
    • Oakwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Oakwood is located in Clay County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 197 people
  • Clinton County (MO)
    • Trimble
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Trimble is located in Clinton County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trimble
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 627 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Trimble <1>
  • Platte County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Easton, with the one closest to Easton listed first.
    • Iatan
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Iatan is located in Platte County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iatan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
    • Stillings
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Weston
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Weston is located in Platte County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weston
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,834 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weston <1>
    • Sugar Lake
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • East Leavenworth
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Farley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Farley is located in Platte County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
    • West Platte
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Tracy
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Woodruff
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Platte City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Waldron
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Waldron is located in Platte County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldron
    • Camden Point
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Dearborn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Easton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Easton.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Easton, with the one closest to Easton 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Easton had a population of 126 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Easton had a population of 256 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Easton ...

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 175 newspapers that have been published in the area around Easton.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Easton. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Easton and those printed in the larger area surrounding Easton.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4> of Easton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Easton:

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