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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 Chloride (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 Chloride. 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.

Chloride is located in Iron 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 Iron County: Crawford, Dent, Madison, Reynolds, Saint Francois, Washington & Wayne.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Chloride ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chloride.

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

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

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

  • Huff Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Glover Baptist Church Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Emilys Chapel Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Hurst Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Sutton Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Hyatts Creek Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • White Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Dobbins Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Collins Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Allgier Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Taum Sauk Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
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    • Rebel Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Shy Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Rutter Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)

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>

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

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

  • Glover
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Glover is located in Iron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glover
  • Sabula
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Hogan
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Hogan is located in Iron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hogan
  • Annapolis
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Lesterville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Arcadia
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Ironton
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Vulcan
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Vulcan is located in Iron County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
  • French Mills
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • French Mills is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for French Mills
  • Jewett
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jewett is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jewett
  • Munger
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Pilot Knob
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
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    • Des Arc
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Brunot
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Ghermanville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Ghermanville is located in Iron County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ghermanville

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

Newspapers Published in Chloride ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chloride.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chloride, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chloride.

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 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 Chloride:

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 Chloride, 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' (or 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- Chloride) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.