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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 Mansfield (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 Mansfield. 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 and 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.

Mansfield is located in Finney County.

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 Finney County: Grant, Gray, Haskell, Hodgeman, Kearny, Lane & Scott.

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

  • Finney County     (The home county of Mansfield)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mansfield, with the one closest to Mansfield listed first.
    • Pierceville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierceville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
      • Pierceville is located in Finney County
    • Garden City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Rodkey ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rodkey have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rodkey
      • Rodkey is located in Finney County
    • Holcomb
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Holcomb have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holcomb
      • Holcomb is located in Finney County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,042 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Holcomb <2>
    • Friend
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Friend have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friend
      • Friend is located in Finney County
    • Ravanna ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
      • Ravanna is located in Finney County
    • Kalvesta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kalvesta have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalvesta
      • Kalvesta is located in Finney County
  • Gray County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mansfield, with the one closest to Mansfield listed first.
    • Charleston
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
      • Charleston is located in Gray County
    • Ingalls
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingalls have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
      • Ingalls is located in Gray County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
    • Cimarron
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Copeland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Montezuma
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Haskell County
    • Sublette
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Kearny County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mansfield, with the one closest to Mansfield listed first.
    • Deerfield
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deerfield have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
      • Deerfield is located in Kearny County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 674 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deerfield <2>
    • Lakin
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Mansfield ...

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 78 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mansfield.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Mansfield:

Cemeteries Near Mansfield ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mansfield.

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 Mansfield covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Pierceville Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • The Pierceville Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pierceville Twp. Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pierceville Cemetery
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • The Valley View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Garden City Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Valley View Cemetery
  • Hulpieu Homestead Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Goldamer Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Toper Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • The Toper Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Jewish Cemetery
    • Topper Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Toper Cemetery
  • Emanuel Mennonite Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Ingalls - Logan Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Colusa Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Colusa Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Colusa Cemetery
  • Deer Field Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Deer Field Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Deer Field Cemetery
  • Ivanhoe Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ivanhoe Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ivanhoe Cemetery
  • Eminence Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Cimarron Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cimarron Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Cimarron.
      • The Cimarron Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Cimarron Twp. Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cimarron Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #939547 <4>
    • Prairie View Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie View Cemetery
    • Haskell Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Haskell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haskell 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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Mansfield had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Pierceville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pierceville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pierceville
    • Pierceville is located in Finney County
  • Garden City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Plymell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plymell have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymell
    • Plymell is located in Finney County
  • Charleston
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
    • Charleston is located in Gray County
  • Ingalls
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingalls have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingalls
    • Ingalls is located in Gray County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 284 people
  • Deerfield
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deerfield have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
    • Deerfield is located in Kearny County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 674 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Deerfield <2>
  • Cimarron
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Ravanna ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravanna
    • Ravanna is located in Finney County
  • Lakin
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Kalvesta
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kalvesta have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kalvesta
    • Kalvesta is located in Finney County
  • Montezuma
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Mansfield. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Finney County: www.finneycounty.org/

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>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 from Point A (ie- Mansfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mansfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9228, Longitude: -100.7671       In this case, the coordinates for Mansfield have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Mansfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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