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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 Farmington (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 Farmington. 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.

Name Variations for Farmington ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

In past government published Postal Guides, Farmington was referred to as Farmington Courthouse.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Farmington. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Farmington.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

For more information about how community names might have been affected by the Board of Geographic Names (BGN), see our page about Placename Rules.

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 hospitals and 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.

Farmington is located in Saint Francois County and is the County Seat.

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 Saint Francois County: Iron, Jefferson, Madison, Perry, Sainte Genevieve & Washington.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Farmington ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Farmington.

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

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

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

  • New Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Old Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Masonic Cemetery of Farmington
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Doughty Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Murphy Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Hillview Memorial Gardens
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • St. Pauls Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Black Masonic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Hunt Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (325 more) ...
    • Mattie Roberts Memorial Cemetery
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Kollmeyer Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Copenhagen Cemetery
      (2 miles [3.2 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 Farmington had a population of 1,394 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Farmington had a population of 18,674 people.

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

  • De Lassus
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • De Lassus is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Lassus
  • Valley Forge ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Valley Forge is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Forge
  • Doe Run
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Doe Run is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doe Run
  • Loughboro
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Loughboro is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loughboro
  • Syenite
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Syenite is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Syenite
  • Knob Lick
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jonca
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Flat River
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Flat River is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flat River
  • Mill
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Mill is located in Sainte Genevieve County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill
  • Libertyville
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Libertyville is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libertyville
  • Avon
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Hazel Run
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Hazel Run is located in Saint Francois County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazel Run
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Farmington ...

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 116 newspapers that have been published in the area around Farmington.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Farmington. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Farmington and those printed in the larger area surrounding Farmington.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3> of Farmington.

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 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 Farmington:

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