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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 Neola (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 Neola. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Neola is located in Stafford 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 Stafford County: Barton, Edwards, Pawnee, Pratt, Reno & Rice.

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

  • Stafford County     (The home county of Neola)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neola, with the one closest to Neola listed first.
    • Stafford
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Saint John
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hudson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Macksville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Seward
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Seward is located in Stafford County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seward
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
    • Radium
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Barber County
    • Isabel
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Isabel is located in Barber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabel
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
  • Kingman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neola, with the one closest to Neola listed first.
    • Penalosa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Cunningham
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Cunningham is located in Kingman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cunningham
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 428 people
    • Kingman
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Willowdale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Nashville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Pratt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neola, with the one closest to Neola listed first.
    • Preston
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Natrona
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Cairo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Iuka
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Iuka is located in Pratt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iuka
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
    • Pratt
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Byers
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Byers is located in Pratt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byers
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
    • Sawyer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Cullison
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Coats
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Coats is located in Pratt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coats
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 75 people
  • Reno County
  • Rice County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Neola, with the one closest to Neola listed first.
    • Alden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Raymond
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Sterling
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Neola ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Neola.

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

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

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

  • Neola Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Turin Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Haynesville Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Glendale Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Prairie Chapel Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Friendship Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Sylvia Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Stafford Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Langdon Maple Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Hazen Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (72 more) ...
    • Leesburg Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Dresden Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Verning Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)

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 Neola had a population of 15 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Turon
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Turon is located in Reno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 370 people
    • Former name for Turon:
    • Pioneer City
  • Preston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Sylvia
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Sylvia is located in Reno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvia
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 204 people
    • Sylvia has also been known as:
    • Anderson's Farm
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Sylvia
    • From Neola to Sylvia
  • Stafford
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Langdon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Plevna
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Natrona
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Lerado
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Penalosa
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Iuka
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Iuka is located in Pratt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iuka
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
  • Cairo
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Cunningham
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Cunningham is located in Kingman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cunningham
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 428 people
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Neola ...

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 157 newspapers that have been published in the area around Neola.

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

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 Neola:

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