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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 Reserve (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 Reserve. 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.

Reserve is located in Brown 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 Brown County: Atchison, Doniphan, Jackson, Nemaha & Richardson (NE).

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

  • Brown County     (The home county of Reserve)
  • Atchison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reserve, with the one closest to Reserve listed first.
    • Huron
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Muscotah
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Doniphan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reserve, with the one closest to Reserve listed first.
    • White Cloud
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Iowa Point
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Highland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Leona
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Leona is located in Doniphan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leona
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 50 people
    • Sparks
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Sparks is located in Doniphan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks
    • Severance
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Denton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Fanning
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Fanning is located in Doniphan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanning
    • Purcell
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Moray
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Moray is located in Doniphan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moray
    • Bendena
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Troy
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Jackson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reserve, with the one closest to Reserve listed first.
    • Whiting
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Whiting is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiting
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 183 people
    • Netawaka
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Nemaha County
  • Atchison County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reserve, with the one closest to Reserve listed first.
    • Fairfax
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Fairfax is located in Atchison County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfax
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 568 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairfax <1>
    • Phelps City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Phelps City is located in Atchison County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phelps City
    • Rock Port
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Holt County (MO)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reserve, with the one closest to Reserve listed first.
    • Big Lake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Fortescue
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Fortescue is located in Holt County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortescue
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
    • Bigelow
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Bigelow is located in Holt County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigelow
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
    • Craig
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Forest City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Corning
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Mound City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Oregon
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Forbes
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • New Point
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Maitland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Maitland is located in Holt County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maitland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
  • Nemaha County (NE)
  • Pawnee County (NE)
  • Richardson County (NE)

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

Cemeteries Near Reserve ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Reserve.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Reserve, with the one closest to Reserve 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 Reserve had a population of 132 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Reserve had a population of 81 people.

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

  • Padonia
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Preston
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Preston is located in Richardson County (NE)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preston
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 26 people
  • Hamlin
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Hamlin is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamlin
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
    • Hamlin has also been known as:
    • Hamilton
  • Falls City
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Morrill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Morrill is located in Brown County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrill
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 225 people
  • Hiawatha
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Rulo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Rulo is located in Richardson County (NE)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rulo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rulo <1>
  • Salem
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Fairview
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Arago ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Sabetha
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Robinson
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • White Cloud
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Fortescue
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Fortescue is located in Holt County (MO)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortescue
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
    • Verdon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Reserve ...

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 283 newspapers that have been published in the area around Reserve.

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

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 Reserve:

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