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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 Glade (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 Glade. 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 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.

Glade is located in Phillips 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 Phillips County: Graham, Norton, Rooks, Smith, Franklin (NE) & Harlan (NE).

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

  • Phillips County     (The home county of Glade)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glade, with the one closest to Glade listed first.
    • Phillipsburg
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Speed
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Speed is located in Phillips County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Speed
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 34 people
    • Kirwin
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Agra
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Stuttgart
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Logan
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Prairie View
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Long Island
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Graham County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glade, with the one closest to Glade listed first.
    • Nicodemus
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Roscoe
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Bogue
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Bogue is located in Graham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogue
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
      • Bogue has also been known as:
      • Wildhorse
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Bogue
      • From Glade to Bogue
    • Smithfield
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Norton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glade, with the one closest to Glade listed first.
    • Densmore
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Almena
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Almena is located in Norton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almena
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 376 people
    • Edmond
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Edmond is located in Norton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 46 people
      • Edmond has also been known as:
      • Edmond City
  • Osborne County
    • Alton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Rooks County
  • Smith County
  • Franklin County (NE)
  • Harlan County (NE)

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

Cemeteries Near Glade ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glade.

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

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

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

  • Marvin Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Lockwood Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Hillsdale Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Belmont Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Belmont Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Plainview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Bow Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Kirin Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Edwards Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Pleasant View Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Emmanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (81 more) ...

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Glade had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Glade had a population of 89 people.

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

  • Phillipsburg
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Gretna
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Gretna is located in Phillips County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gretna
  • Kirwin
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Agra
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Stuttgart
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Logan
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Kensington
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Stockton
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Prairie View
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodston
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Cedar
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Cedar is located in Smith County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 13 people
  • Webster
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Webster is located in Rooks County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webster
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Athol
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Long Island
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Woodruff
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Woodruff is located in Phillips County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodruff

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Glade ...

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 174 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glade.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Glade. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Glade and those printed in the larger area surrounding Glade.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3> of Glade.

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 Glade:

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>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 Glade, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Glade) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.