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 Maxville (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 Maxville. 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 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.
Maxville is located in Jasper 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 Jasper County: Cherokee (KS), Crawford (KS), Barton, Dade, Lawrence & Newton.
Below are the counties that are near Maxville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Maxville:
- Jasper County (The home county of Maxville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Carthage
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Forest Mills
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Forest Mills is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Mills
- Carytown
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Carytown is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carytown
- Population from the 2020 Census: 283 people
- Brooklyn Heights
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Brooklyn Heights is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brooklyn Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 105 people
- Avilla
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Avilla is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avilla
- Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
- Reeds
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Reeds is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Maple Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Maple Grove is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Fidelity
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Fidelity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fidelity
- Population from the 2020 Census: 268 people
- Parshley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Parshley is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parshley
- Alba
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Alba is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alba
- Population from the 2020 Census: 537 people
- Jasper
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Prosperity
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Prosperity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Barry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Monett
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Pioneer
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Pioneer is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer
- Barton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Golden City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Kenoma
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Kenoma is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenoma
- Nashville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Nashville is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville
- Oakton
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Oakton is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakton
- Lamar Heights
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Lamar Heights is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamar Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
- Lamar
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Bushnell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Bushnell is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushnell
- Layneville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Layneville is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Layneville
- Newport
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Newport is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport
- Mindenmines
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Irwin
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Irwin is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
- Milford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Milford is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
- Dade County
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Lockwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lockwood is located in Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
- South Greenfield
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- South Greenfield is located in Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Greenfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
- Greenfield
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Pilgrim
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Pilgrim is located in Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim
- Lawrence County
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Red Oak
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Red Oak is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Oak
- Stotts City
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Stotts City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotts City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
- Round Grove
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Round Grove is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Grove
- Pierce City
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Miller
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Freistatt
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Freistatt is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freistatt
- Population from the 2020 Census: 160 people
- Hoberg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Hoberg is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoberg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
- Heatonville
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Heatonville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heatonville
- Mount Vernon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Stinson
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Stinson is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson
- Verona
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Verona is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona
- Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
- Newton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Diamond
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Diamond is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diamond
- Population from the 2020 Census: 909 people
- Former names for Diamond:
- Diamond Grove
- Diamond Mill
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Diamond <1>
- Park
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Park is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park
- Silver Creek
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Silver Creek is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek
- Estimated population in 2012: 631 people
- Talmage City
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Talmage City is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talmage City
- Dennis Acres
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Dennis Acres is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis Acres
- Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
- Leawood
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Leawood is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leawood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 678 people
- Saginaw
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Saginaw is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saginaw
- Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
- Granby City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Granby City is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Granby City
- Wentworth
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Wentworth is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wentworth
- Population from the 2020 Census: 145 people
- Shoal Creek Drive
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Shoal Creek Drive is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoal Creek Drive
- Population from the 2020 Census: 327 people
- Shoal Creek Estates
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Shoal Creek Estates is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoal Creek Estates
- Population from the 2020 Census: 92 people
- Cliff Village
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Cliff Village is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliff Village
- Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
- Cherokee County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Badger
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Badger is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger
- Lawton
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Lawton is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
- East Galena
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- East Galena is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Galena
- Galena
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Empire City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Empire City is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
- South Galena
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- South Galena is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Galena
- Crestline
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Crestline is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crestline
- Lowell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lowell is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
- Lowell has also been known as:
- Lowell Station
- Riverton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Quaker
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Quaker is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker
- Baxter Junction
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Baxter Junction is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter Junction
- Baxter Springs
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Crawford County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Opolis
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Opolis is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opolis
- Cornell
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Cornell is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornell
- Kirkwood
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Kirkwood is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkwood
- Pittsburg
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Yale
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Yale is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yale
- Curranville
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Curranville is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curranville
- Frontenac
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Klendike
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Klendike is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klendike
- Fox Town
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Fox Town is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Town
- Lone Oak
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Lone Oak is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Oak
- Ottawa County (OK)
- Peoria
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Peoria is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoria
- Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Maxville, see our County-by-County Page for Maxville.
Cemeteries Near Maxville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Maxville.
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 Maxville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Maxville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Grey Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Cedar Hill Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Park Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Park Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Carthage.
- The Park Cemetery has also been known as:
- Regan Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #30740 <2>
- Fasken Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Oak Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Fair Acres Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Acres Cemetery
- The Fair Acres Cemetery has also been known as:
- Jasper County Poor Farm Cemetery
- Hackney Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Summerset Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Curtis Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Good Shepherd Lutheran Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Fullerton Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Emmanuel Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Continue List (271 more) ...
- Jasper Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Arthur Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Fairview Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
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 Maxville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Maxville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Maxville, with the one closest to Maxville listed first.
- Carthage
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Knights
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Knights is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knights
- Reeds
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Reeds is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds
- Population from the 2020 Census: 99 people
- Avilla
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Avilla is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avilla
- Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
- Fidelity
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Fidelity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fidelity
- Population from the 2020 Census: 268 people
- Parshley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Parshley is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parshley
- Maple Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Maple Grove is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Grove
- Alba
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Alba is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alba
- Population from the 2020 Census: 537 people
- Jasper
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Prosperity
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Prosperity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Scotland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Scotland is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotland
- Carterville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Oronogo
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Webb City
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Sarcoxie
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Maxville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Maxville.
Newspapers Published in Maxville ...
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 67 newspapers that have been published in the area around Maxville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Maxville, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Maxville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Maxville:
- Websites specific to Missouri
- Pages specific to Jasper County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Barry County
- Barton County
- Dade County
- Lawrence County
- Newton County
- Cherokee County
- Crawford County
- Ottawa 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> | 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 Maxville, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Maxville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |