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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 Pixley (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 Pixley. 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.

Pixley is located in Barber 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 Barber County: Comanche, Harper, Kingman, Kiowa, Pratt, Alfalfa (OK) & Woods (OK).

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

  • Barber County     (The home county of Pixley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pixley, with the one closest to Pixley listed first.
    • Sharon
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Sharon is located in Barber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharon
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
      • Former name for Sharon:
      • Bible Valley
    • Medicine Lodge
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Gerlane
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Hazelton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Mingona
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest City ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Forest City is located in Barber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest City
    • Isabel
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Isabel is located in Barber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabel
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Kiowa
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Elm Mills
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Elm Mills is located in Barber County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Mills
    • Stubbs
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Hardtner
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Harper County
  • Kingman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pixley, with the one closest to Pixley listed first.
    • Nashville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Zenda
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Willowdale
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Spivey
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Rago
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Rago is located in Kingman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rago
    • Cunningham
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Cunningham is located in Kingman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cunningham
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 428 people
  • Pratt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pixley, with the one closest to Pixley listed first.
    • Sawyer
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Coats
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Coats is located in Pratt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coats
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 75 people
    • Cairo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Pratt
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Alfalfa County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pixley, with the one closest to Pixley listed first.
    • Burlington
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Amorita
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Byron
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Byron is located in Alfalfa County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Byron
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
  • Grant County (OK)
  • Woods County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pixley, with the one closest to Pixley listed first.
    • Capron
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Winchester
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Pixley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pixley.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pixley, with the one closest to Pixley 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 in 1895, Pixley had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Sharon
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Sharon is located in Barber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sharon
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 142 people
    • Former name for Sharon:
    • Bible Valley
  • Medicine Lodge
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Crisfield
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Hazelton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Mingona
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Attica
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Nashville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Corwin
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Corwin is located in Harper County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corwin
  • Isabel
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Isabel is located in Barber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabel
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
  • Kiowa
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Zenda
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Elm Mills
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Elm Mills is located in Barber County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elm Mills
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Hardtner
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Crystal Springs
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Crystal Springs is located in Harper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal Springs
    • Ruella
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Ruella is located in Harper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruella

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

Newspapers Published in Pixley ...

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 96 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pixley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pixley, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pixley.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Pixley:

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>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.
<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 Pixley, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Pixley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.