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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 Havensville (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 Havensville. 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 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.

Havensville is located in Pottawatomie 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 Pottawatomie County: Jackson, Marshall, Nemaha, Riley, Shawnee & Wabaunsee.

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

  • Pottawatomie County     (The home county of Havensville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havensville, with the one closest to Havensville listed first.
    • Onaga
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Duluth
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Saint Clere
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Aikins
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Wheaton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Wheaton is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheaton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
    • Emmett
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Emmett is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emmett
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 187 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Emmett <1>
    • Blaine
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Westmoreland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Belvue
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Belvue is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvue
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
    • Saint Marys
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Louisville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Louisville is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 228 people
      • Louisville has also been known as:
      • Louisville Springs
      • Rock City
      • Rock Creek Falls
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Louisville <1>
    • Fostoria
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Wamego
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Wamego is located in Pottawatomie County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wamego
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,718 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Wamego <1>
  • Atchison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havensville, with the one closest to Havensville listed first.
    • Arrington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Muscotah
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Brown County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havensville, with the one closest to Havensville listed first.
    • Mercier
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Fairview
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Powhattan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Powhattan is located in Brown County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powhattan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
  • Jackson County
  • Marshall County
  • Nemaha County
  • Riley County
  • Shawnee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havensville, with the one closest to Havensville listed first.
    • Rossville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Willard
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Willard is located in Shawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willard
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 88 people
    • Silver Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Wabaunsee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havensville, with the one closest to Havensville listed first.
    • Maple Hill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Paxico
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Vera
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Havensville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Havensville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Havensville, with the one closest to Havensville 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 Havensville had a population of 374 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Havensville had a population of 157 people.

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

  • America City
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • America City is located in Nemaha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for America City
  • Onaga
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Avoca ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Soldier
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Neuchatel
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Neuchatel is located in Nemaha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neuchatel
  • Saint Clere
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Corning
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Circleville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Ontario
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Ontario is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ontario
  • Bancroft
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bancroft is located in Nemaha County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
  • Wheaton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Wheaton is located in Pottawatomie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheaton
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
  • Laclede
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Laclede is located in Pottawatomie County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laclede
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Goff
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Goff is located in Nemaha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goff
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 117 people
    • Centralia
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Wetmore
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Havensville ...

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 217 newspapers that have been published in the area around Havensville.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Havensville. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Havensville and those printed in the larger area surrounding Havensville.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Havensville.

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 Havensville:

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>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- Havensville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Havensville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.