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 Oakland Park (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 Oakland Park. 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 hospitals 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.
Oakland Park 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 Oakland Park. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Oakland Park:
- Jasper County (The home county of Oakland Park)
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Webb City
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Airport Drive
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Airport Drive is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Drive
- Population from the 2020 Census: 862 people
- East Joplin
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- East Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Joplin
- Joplin
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lone Elm
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Lone Elm is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Elm
- Prosperity
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Prosperity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Carterville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Duquesne
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Duquesne is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duquesne
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,689 people
- West Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- West Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Joplin
- Thoms
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Thoms is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thoms
- Rex City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Rex City is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rex City
- Duenweg
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Barry County
- Pioneer
(30 miles [48.3 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 Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Nashville
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Nashville is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville
- Oakton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Oakton is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakton
- Mindenmines
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Kenoma
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Kenoma is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kenoma
- Lamar Heights
(28 miles [45.1 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
- Golden City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Lamar
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Liberal
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Liberal is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
- Lawrence County
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Red Oak
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Red Oak is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Oak
- Pierce City
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Stotts City
(29 miles [46.7 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
- McDonald County
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- May
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- May is located in McDonald County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- Goodman
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Erie
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Erie is located in McDonald County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Erie
- Newton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Dennis Acres
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Dennis Acres is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dennis Acres
- Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
- Leawood
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Leawood is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leawood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 678 people
- Silver Creek
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Silver Creek is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek
- Estimated population in 2012: 631 people
- Shoal Creek Drive
(5 miles [8 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
- Cliff Village
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Cliff Village is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliff Village
- Population from the 2020 Census: 39 people
- Redings Mill
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Redings Mill is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redings Mill
- Population from the 2020 Census: 150 people
- Saginaw
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Saginaw is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saginaw
- Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
- Shoal Creek Estates
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Shoal Creek Estates is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoal Creek Estates
- Population from the 2020 Census: 92 people
- Grand Falls Plaza
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Grand Falls Plaza is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Falls Plaza
- Population from the 2020 Census: 112 people
- Spring City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Spring City is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring City
- Loma Linda
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Loma Linda is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Linda
- Population from the 2020 Census: 782 people
- Diamond
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- 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>
- Cherokee County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- East Galena
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- East Galena is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Galena
- Badger
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Badger is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger
- Empire City
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Empire City is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
- Galena
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- South Galena
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- South Galena is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Galena
- Lawton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lawton is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
- Riverton
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Crestline
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Crestline is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crestline
- Lowell
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Lowell is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
- Lowell has also been known as:
- Lowell Station
- Baxter Springs
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Baxter Junction
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Baxter Junction is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter Junction
- Quaker
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Quaker is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker
- Crawford County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Opolis
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Opolis is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opolis
- Kirkwood
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Kirkwood is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkwood
- Klendike
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Klendike is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klendike
- Cherokee
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Pittsburg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Cornell
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Cornell is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornell
- Frontenac
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lone Oak
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lone Oak is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Oak
- Yale
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Yale is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yale
- Curranville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Curranville is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curranville
- Capaldo
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Capaldo is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capaldo
- Beulah
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Beulah is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beulah
- Ottawa County (OK)
- The following are listed by their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Peoria
(17 miles [27.4 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
- Hockerville ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Hockerville is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockerville
- Lincolnville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Lincolnville is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincolnville
- Quapaw
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Picher ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Cardin
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Ottawa
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Ottawa is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa
- Commerce
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- North Miami
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- North Miami is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Miami
- Population from the 2020 Census: 370 people
- Wyandotte
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Kellyville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Kellyville is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellyville
- Miami
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Miami is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
- Population from the 2020 Census: 12,947 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <1>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Oakland Park, see our County-by-County Page for Oakland Park.
Cemeteries Near Oakland Park ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oakland Park.
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 Oakland Park - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Oakland Park covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Webb City Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Webb City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Webb City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Webb City.
- The Webb City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wild Rose Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #32195 <2>
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Hope Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Hope Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Webb City.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #30325 <2>
- Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Joplin.
- The Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ozark Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #30712 <2>
- Forest Park Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Miller Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Harmony Grove Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Peace Church Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peace Church Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Peace Church Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Joplin.
- Fairview Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Carterville Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Laxton Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Oronogo Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Osborne Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (231 more) ...
- Parkway Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Sterling Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sherwood Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
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 Oakland Park in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Oakland Park.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Oakland Park, with the one closest to Oakland Park listed first.
- Joplin
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- East Joplin
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- East Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Joplin
- Webb City
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- West Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- West Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Joplin
- Prosperity
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Prosperity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Carterville
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Tuckahoe
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Tuckahoe is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuckahoe
- Blendville ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Blendville is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blendville
- Thoms
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Thoms is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thoms
- Scotland
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Scotland is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scotland
- Oronogo
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Dupont ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Dupont is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dupont
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Saginaw
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Saginaw is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saginaw
- Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
- Carl Junction
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Smithfield
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Smithfield is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithfield
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Oakland Park. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oakland Park.
Newspapers Published in Oakland Park ...
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 59 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oakland Park.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oakland Park, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oakland Park.
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 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 Oakland Park:
- Websites specific to Missouri
- Pages specific to Jasper County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Barry County
- Barton County
- Lawrence County
- McDonald 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 Oakland Park, 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- Oakland Park) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |