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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 Hugoton (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 Hugoton. 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 Hugoton ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Prior to its current name of Hugoton, it was known as Hugo.

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 southwest 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 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.

Hugoton is located in Stevens County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of Kansas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Stevens County: Grant, Haskell, Morton, Seward, Stanton & Texas (OK).

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

  • Stevens County     (The home county of Hugoton)
    • Moscow
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moscow have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
      • Moscow is located in Stevens County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
      • Former name for Moscow:
      • Mosco
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moscow <2>
  • Grant County
    • Ulysses
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Haskell County
    • Satanta
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Satanta have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satanta
      • Satanta is located in Haskell County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,121 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Satanta <2>
  • Morton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hugoton, with the one closest to Hugoton listed first.
    • Rolla
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rolla have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolla
      • Rolla is located in Morton County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
    • Richfield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
      • Richfield is located in Morton County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
  • Seward County
    • Liberal
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Stanton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hugoton, with the one closest to Hugoton listed first.
    • Platt City ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Platt City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Platt City
      • Platt City is located in Stanton County
      • Platt City has also been known as:
      • Platt
    • Big Bow
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bow
      • Big Bow is located in Stanton County
  • Texas County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hugoton, with the one closest to Hugoton listed first.
    • Straight
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight
      • Straight is located in Texas County (OK)
    • Tyrone
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tyrone have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyrone
      • Tyrone is located in Texas County (OK)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 743 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tyrone <2>
    • Hooker
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
      • Hooker is located in Texas County (OK)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hooker <2>
    • Optima
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Optima have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Optima
      • Optima is located in Texas County (OK)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 371 people

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Hugoton ...

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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hugoton.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Hugoton. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Hugoton and those printed in the larger area surrounding Hugoton.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4> of Hugoton.

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 Hugoton:

Cemeteries Near Hugoton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hugoton.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Hugoton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hugoton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hugoton Cemetery
  • Moscow Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moscow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moscow Cemetery
  • Dermot Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dermot Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dermot Cemetery
  • Rolla Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rolla Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rolla Cemetery
  • Barden Memorial Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Zionville Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zionville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zionville Cemetery
  • O'Dea Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the O'Dea Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the O'Dea Cemetery
  • Young Family Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Golden Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Golden Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Golden Cemetery
  • Camp Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Camp Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Camp Cemetery
  • Liverpool Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Liverpool Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Liverpool Cemetery
  • Richfield Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Richfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Richfield Cemetery
  • Continue List   (20 more) ...
    • Catholic Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Catholic Cemetery
    • Lutheran Babyland Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lutheran Babyland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lutheran Babyland Cemetery
    • Lutheran Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lutheran Cemetery

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.<6>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Hugoton had a population of 136 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Hugoton had a population of 3,678 people.

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

  • Moscow
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moscow have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moscow
    • Moscow is located in Stevens County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 294 people
    • Former name for Moscow:
    • Mosco
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moscow <2>
  • Richfield
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
    • Richfield is located in Morton County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
  • Liberal
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Ulysses
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Arkalon
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arkalon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkalon
    • Arkalon is located in Seward County

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

The official website for Hugoton: www.cityofhugoton.com/

The official website for State of Kansas: https://portal.kansas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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- Hugoton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hugoton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.1772, Longitude: -101.3482    
<5>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.
<6>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 Hugoton, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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