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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 Neeper (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 Neeper. 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 hospitals and 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.

Neeper is located in Clark 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 Clark County: Lee (IA), Van Buren (IA), Hancock (IL), Knox, Lewis & Scotland.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Neeper ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Neeper.

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

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

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

  • Old German Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Schuster Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Carlin Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Honey Creek Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Williamstown Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Mitts Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Sisson Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Cowgill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Sugar Creek Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Clark City Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Medill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (307 more) ...
    • Cecil Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Higbee Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Bash Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)

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 Neeper had a population of 25 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Antioch
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Antioch is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antioch
  • Williamstown
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Williamstown is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamstown
  • Medill
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Fairmont
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Fairmont is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairmont
  • Kahoka
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Ashton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Ashton is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashton
  • Clark City
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Clark City is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark City
  • Wyaconda
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Saint Patrick
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Patrick is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Patrick
  • Winchester
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Winchester is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
  • Luray
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Luray is located in Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luray
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
  • Deer Ridge
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Deer Ridge is located in Lewis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deer Ridge
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Bunker Hill ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Bunker Hill is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill
    • Derrahs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Derrahs is located in Lewis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Derrahs
    • Colony
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Neeper ...

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 57 newspapers that have been published in the area around Neeper.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Neeper, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Neeper.

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 websites either 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 Neeper:

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