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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 Blairstown (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 Blairstown. 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 and hospitals 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.

Blairstown is located in Henry County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Henry County: Bates, Benton, Cass, Johnson, Pettis & Saint Clair.

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

  • Henry County     (The home county of Blairstown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blairstown, with the one closest to Blairstown listed first.
    • Norris
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Maurine
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Maurine is located in Henry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maurine
    • Urich
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Hartwell
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Hartwell is located in Henry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwell
    • Clinton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • La Due
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • La Due is located in Henry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Due
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 28 people
    • Bowen
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Bowen is located in Henry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowen
    • Calhoun
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Calhoun is located in Henry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calhoun
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 456 people
    • Montrose
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Alberta
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Deepwater
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Windsor
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Yolo
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Bates County
  • Benton County
  • Cass County
  • Jackson County
  • Johnson County
  • Lafayette County
  • Pettis County
    • Green Ridge
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Green Ridge is located in Pettis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Ridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 495 people
  • Saint Clair County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Blairstown, with the one closest to Blairstown listed first.
    • Appleton City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Johnson City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Johnson City is located in Saint Clair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson City

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

Cemeteries Near Blairstown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blairstown.

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

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

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

  • Blairstown Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Quick Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Priestly Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Hendricks Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Carpenter Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Farnsworth Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Page Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Urich Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • New Liberty Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Outon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Grant Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Kepner Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (188 more) ...
    • Norris Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Salem Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Carrsville Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)

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 in 1895, Blairstown had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Blairstown had a population of 95 people.

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

  • Norris
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Quick City
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Quick City is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quick City
  • Maurine
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Maurine is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maurine
  • Chilhowee
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Chilhowee is located in Johnson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilhowee
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 322 people
  • Petersburg
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Petersburg is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
  • Creighton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hartwell
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Hartwell is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwell
  • Garland
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Garland is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
  • Huntingdale
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Huntingdale is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huntingdale
  • Latour
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Lucas
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Lucas is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lucas
  • Shawnee Mound
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Shawnee Mound is located in Henry County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shawnee Mound
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Blairstown ...

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 119 newspapers that have been published in the area around Blairstown.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Blairstown. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Blairstown and those printed in the larger area surrounding Blairstown.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Blairstown.

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 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 Blairstown:

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 Blairstown, 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 from Point A (ie- Blairstown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.