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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 Milford (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 Milford. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Milford is located in Barton 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 Barton County: Crawford (KS), Cedar, Dade, Jasper & Vernon.

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

  • Barton County     (The home county of Milford)
  • Cedar County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Milford, with the one closest to Milford listed first.
    • Jerico Springs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Jerico Springs is located in Cedar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerico Springs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 232 people
    • Virgil City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Virgil City is located in Cedar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgil City
    • Willowville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Umber View Heights
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Umber View Heights is located in Cedar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Umber View Heights
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 49 people
    • Stockton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • El Dorado Springs
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Caplinger Mills
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lebeck
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Dade County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Milford, with the one closest to Milford listed first.
    • Arcola
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Arcola is located in Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arcola
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 53 people
    • Lockwood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Lockwood is located in Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 897 people
    • Glen Town
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Glen Town is located in Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Town
    • Greenfield
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • South Greenfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • South Greenfield is located in Dade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Greenfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Corry
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Bona
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Pilgrim
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Dadeville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Everton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Jasper County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Milford, with the one closest to Milford listed first.
    • Jasper
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Maple Grove
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Carytown
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Carytown is located in Jasper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carytown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 283 people
    • Avilla
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Alba
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Alba is located in Jasper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alba
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 537 people
    • Medoc
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Neck City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Neck City is located in Jasper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neck City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 196 people
    • Forest Mills
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Purcell
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Carthage
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Opolis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lawrence County
  • Saint Clair County
  • Vernon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Milford, with the one closest to Milford listed first.
    • Bellamy
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Sheldon
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Montevallo
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Milo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Milo is located in Vernon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
    • Bronaugh
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Moundville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Nevada
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Walker
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Walker is located in Vernon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 253 people
    • Harwood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Harwood is located in Vernon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harwood
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 45 people
    • Deerfield
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Deerfield is located in Vernon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deerfield
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 77 people
    • Temple ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Temple is located in Vernon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple
    • Horton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Horton is located in Vernon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horton
    • Schell City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Bourbon County (KS)
  • Crawford County (KS)

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

Cemeteries Near Milford ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Milford.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Milford, with the one closest to Milford 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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Milford had a population of 145 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Milford had a population of 23 people.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Milford ...

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 112 newspapers that have been published in the area around Milford.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Milford, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Milford.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Milford:

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 Milford, 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 from Point A (ie- Milford) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.