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 Harrisonville (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 Harrisonville. 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 Harrisonville ...
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, Harrisonville was referred to as Harrisonville Courthouse.
You might be interested in other communities that are also named Harrisonville. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Harrisonville.
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 southwest 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 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.
Harrisonville is located in Cass 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 Cass County: Johnson (KS), Miami (KS), Bates, Henry, Jackson & Johnson.
Below are the counties that are near Harrisonville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Harrisonville:
- Cass County (The home county of Harrisonville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- East Lynne
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Coleman
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Coleman is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman
- Peculiar
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Freeman
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Lake Annette
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Lake Annette is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Annette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 102 people
- Gunn City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Gunn City is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunn City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
- Pleasant Hill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Austin
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Austin is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
- Garden City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Lake Winnebago
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Lake Winnebago is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Winnebago
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,370 people
- Baldwin Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Baldwin Park is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baldwin Park
- Population from the 2020 Census: 96 people
- Harrelson
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Harrelson is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrelson
- Archie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Bates County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Burdett
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Burdett is located in Bates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burdett
- Adrian
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Drexel
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Merwin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Merwin is located in Bates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merwin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 59 people
- Passaic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Passaic is located in Bates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Passaic
- Population from the 2020 Census: 32 people
- Mayesburg
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Mayesburg is located in Bates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayesburg
- Amsterdam
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Butler
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Amoret
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Amoret is located in Bates County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amoret
- Population from the 2020 Census: 181 people
- Henry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Blairstown
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Blairstown is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blairstown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 95 people
- Urich
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Norris
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Norris is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norris
- Hartwell
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Hartwell is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartwell
- Maurine
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Maurine is located in Henry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maurine
- Jackson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Greenwood
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Cockrell
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Cockrell is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cockrell
- Lone Jack
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Belvidere
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Belvidere is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belvidere
- Grandview
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Lake Lotawana
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Unity Village
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Unity Village is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unity Village
- Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
- Hicks City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hicks City is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hicks City
- Martin City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Martin City is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin City
- Sni Mills
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Sni Mills is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sni Mills
- New Santa Fe
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- New Santa Fe is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Santa Fe
- Little Blue
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Little Blue is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Blue
- Holmes Park
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Holmes Park is located in Jackson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes Park
- Holmes Park has also been known as:
- Holmes
- Johnson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- La Tour
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- La Tour is located in Johnson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Tour
- Latour
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Latour is located in Johnson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latour
- Kingsville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Quick City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Quick City is located in Johnson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quick City
- Holden
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Chilhowee
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Chilhowee is located in Johnson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilhowee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 322 people
- Centerview
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Columbus
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Columbus is located in Johnson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
- Greendoor
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Greendoor is located in Johnson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greendoor
- Lafayette County
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Bates City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Lafayette
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lake Lafayette is located in Lafayette County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Lafayette
- Population from the 2020 Census: 340 people
- Johnson County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Stilwell
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Stilwell is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stilwell
- Overland Park
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Leawood
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Spring Hill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Spring Hill is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Hill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,871 people
- Spring Hill has also been known as:
- Spring Hill Station
- Springfield
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spring Hill <1>
- Mission Hills
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Mission Hills is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,533 people
- Prairie Village
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Fairway
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lenexa
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mission Woods
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Mission Woods is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission Woods
- Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
- Clare
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Clare is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clare
- Countryside
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Countryside is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside
- Mission
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mission is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,873 people
- Former name for Mission:
- Mission Hill Acres
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mission <1>
- Olathe
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Olathe is located in Johnson County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olathe
- Population from the 2020 Census: 141,665 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Olathe <1>
- Linn County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Linn Valley
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Linn Valley is located in Linn County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linn Valley
- Population from the 2020 Census: 876 people
- La Cygne
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Miami County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Wea
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Wea is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wea
- Louisburg
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Louisburg is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Louisburg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,590 people
- Former name for Louisburg:
- New Saint Lewis
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Louisburg <1>
- Bucyrus
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Bucyrus is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucyrus
- Chiles
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Chiles is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiles
- Somerset
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- New Lancaster
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- New Lancaster is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Lancaster
- Jingo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jingo is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jingo
- Block
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Block is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Block
- Hillsdale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Hillsdale is located in Miami County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillsdale
- Paola
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Harrisonville, see our County-by-County Page for Harrisonville.
Cemeteries Near Harrisonville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harrisonville.
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 Harrisonville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Harrisonville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Glenn Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Orient Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Burford Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Harris Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Brown Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pitts Chapel Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Reed Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wills Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Vansandt Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Clearfork Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Peculiar Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (231 more) ...
- Staley Mound Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Freeman Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Moudy Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Harrisonville had a population of 1,645 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Harrisonville had a population of 10,086 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Harrisonville, with the one closest to Harrisonville listed first.
- Daugherty
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Daugherty is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Daugherty
- Lone Tree
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Lone Tree is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Tree
- Ore
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ore is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ore
- East Lynne
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Coleman
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Coleman is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coleman
- Peculiar
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Freeman
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Gowdy
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Gowdy is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gowdy
- Gunn City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Gunn City is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gunn City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 123 people
- Austin
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Austin is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Austin
- Garden City
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Hill
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Everett
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Everett is located in Cass County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Everett
- Archie
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Raymore
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Harrisonville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Harrisonville.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Harrisonville ...
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 122 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harrisonville.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Harrisonville. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Harrisonville and those printed in the larger area surrounding Harrisonville.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of Harrisonville.
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 Harrisonville:
- Websites specific to Missouri
- Pages specific to Cass County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bates County
- Henry County
- Jackson County
- Johnson County
- Lafayette County
- Johnson County
- Linn County
- Miami County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Missouri
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 Harrisonville, 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 from Point A (ie- Harrisonville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |