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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 Chestnutridge (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 Chestnutridge. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Chestnutridge is located in Christian 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 Christian County: Douglas, Greene, Lawrence, Stone, Taney & Webster.

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

  • Christian County     (The home county of Chestnutridge)
  • Barry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chestnutridge, with the one closest to Chestnutridge listed first.
    • Scholten
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Jenkins
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Leann
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Hill City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Hill City is located in Barry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill City
    • Shell Knob
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Arrow Point
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Arrow Point is located in Barry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrow Point
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 87 people
    • Emerald Beach
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Emerald Beach is located in Barry County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald Beach
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
    • Golden
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Douglas County
  • Greene County
  • Lawrence County
  • Stone County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chestnutridge, with the one closest to Chestnutridge listed first.
    • Ponce de Leon
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Ponce de Leon is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponce de Leon
    • White City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • White City is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
    • Reeds Spring
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Branson West
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Branson West is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branson West
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 451 people
    • Lakeview
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Lakeview is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
    • Oto
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Silver Dollar City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Silver Dollar City is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Dollar City
    • Galena
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Indian Point
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • McCord Bend
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • McCord Bend is located in Stone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord Bend
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
    • Hurley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cape Fair
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Taney County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chestnutridge, with the one closest to Chestnutridge listed first.
    • Day
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Walnut Shade
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Walnut Shade is located in Taney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Shade
    • Bull Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Bull Creek is located in Taney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 633 people
    • Merriam Woods
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Merriam Woods is located in Taney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merriam Woods
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,859 people
    • Rockaway Beach
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Forsyth
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Branson
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Powersite
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Powersite is located in Taney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powersite
    • Taneyville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Taneyville is located in Taney County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taneyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 361 people
    • Hollister
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Kirbyville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Kissee Mills
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Webster County
  • Boone County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chestnutridge, with the one closest to Chestnutridge listed first.
    • Omaha
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Omaha is located in Boone County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Omaha
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 172 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Omaha <1>
    • Lowry
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Boone
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Carroll County (AR)

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

Cemeteries Near Chestnutridge ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chestnutridge.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chestnutridge, with the one closest to Chestnutridge 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>

While we didn't find Chestnutridge in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chestnutridge.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Chestnutridge ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chestnutridge.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chestnutridge, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chestnutridge.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Chestnutridge:

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 Chestnutridge, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Chestnutridge) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.