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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 Chamois (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 Chamois. 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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Chamois is located in Osage 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 Osage County: Callaway, Cole, Gasconade, Maries, Miller & Montgomery.

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

  • Osage County     (The home county of Chamois)
  • Audrain County
    • Martinsburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Boone County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamois, with the one closest to Chamois listed first.
    • Ashland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Oldham
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Hartsburg
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Callaway County
  • Cole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamois, with the one closest to Chamois listed first.
    • Osage City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Osage City is located in Cole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osage City
    • Taos
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Taos is located in Cole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taos
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,157 people
    • Jefferson City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Wardsville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Wardsville is located in Cole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wardsville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,570 people
    • Scruggs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Saint Martins
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Saint Martins is located in Cole County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Martins
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,204 people
  • Franklin County
  • Gasconade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamois, with the one closest to Chamois listed first.
    • Morrison
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Gasconade
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Gasconade is located in Gasconade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gasconade
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 211 people
    • Mount Sterling
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Mount Sterling is located in Gasconade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Sterling
    • Hermann
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Little Berger
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Bland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Bland is located in Gasconade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 523 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bland <1>
    • Owensville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Rosebud
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Maries County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamois, with the one closest to Chamois listed first.
    • Belle
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Paydown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Montgomery County
  • Warren County

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

Cemeteries Near Chamois ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chamois.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chamois, with the one closest to Chamois 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Chamois had a population of 769 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Chamois had a population of 377 people.

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

  • Portland
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Reform
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Reform is located in Callaway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reform
  • Aud
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Aud is located in Osage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aud
  • Morrison
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Isbell ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Isbell is located in Osage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isbell
  • Luystown
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Luystown is located in Osage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luystown
  • Mint Hill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Mint Hill is located in Osage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mint Hill
  • Fredericksburg
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Fredericksburg is located in Gasconade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fredericksburg
  • Bluffton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Cote Sans Dessein ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Cote Sans Dessein is located in Callaway County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cote Sans Dessein
    • Cote Sans Dessein has also been known as:
    • Parkersville
  • Frankenstein
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Frankenstein is located in Osage County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frankenstein
  • Stolpe
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Stolpe is located in Gasconade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stolpe
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Readsville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Readsville is located in Callaway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Readsville
    • Effie ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Effie is located in Callaway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Effie
    • Hams Prairie
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Hams Prairie is located in Callaway County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hams Prairie

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Chamois ...

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 92 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chamois.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Chamois. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Chamois and those printed in the larger area surrounding Chamois.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of Chamois.

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 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 Chamois:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Chamois) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Chamois, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.