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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 Oakville (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 Oakville. 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 and 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.

Oakville is located in Saint Louis 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 Saint Louis County: Madison (IL), Monroe (IL), Saint Clair (IL), Franklin, Jefferson, Saint Charles & Saint Louis.

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

  • Saint Louis County     (The home county of Oakville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oakville, with the one closest to Oakville listed first.
    • Mehlville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Mehlville is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mehlville
    • Mattese
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Mattese is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattese
    • Ivory
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Ivory is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivory
    • Lemay
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Saint George
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Saint George is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint George
      • Estimated population in 2011: 1,336 people
    • Concord
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Concord is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord
    • Green Park
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Green Park is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,614 people
    • Affton
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Bella Villa
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Bella Villa is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bella Villa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 721 people
    • Lakeshire
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Lakeshire is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeshire
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,385 people
    • Wilbur Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Wilbur Park is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilbur Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 466 people
    • Grantwood Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Grantwood Village is located in Saint Louis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantwood Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 855 people
  • Franklin County
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oakville, with the one closest to Oakville listed first.
    • Arnold
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Arnold is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 21,145 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arnold <1>
    • Flamm City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Flamm City is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flamm City
    • Maxville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Kimmswick
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Imperial
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Barnhart
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Murphy
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Murphy is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy
    • Otto
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • High Ridge
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Parkdale
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Parkdale is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkdale
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 162 people
    • Peaceful Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Peaceful Village is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaceful Village
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 67 people
    • Pevely
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Pevely is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pevely
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,001 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pevely <1>
  • Saint Charles County
  • Saint Louis City
  • Sainte Genevieve County
  • Madison County (IL)
  • Monroe County (IL)
  • Randolph County (IL)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oakville, with the one closest to Oakville listed first.
    • Red Bud
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Ruma
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Prairie du Rocher
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Prairie du Rocher is located in Randolph County (IL)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prairie du Rocher
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 548 people
      • Prairie du Rocher has also been known as:
      • Prairie du Rocher village
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Prairie du Rocher <1>
  • Saint Clair County (IL)

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

Cemeteries Near Oakville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oakville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oakville, with the one closest to Oakville 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Oakville had a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Cliff Cave
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Cliff Cave is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cliff Cave
  • Mehlville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Mehlville is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mehlville
  • Jefferson Barracks
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jefferson Barracks is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Barracks
  • Mattese
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Mattese is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mattese
  • White House
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • White House is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White House
  • Columbia
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Columbia is located in Monroe County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,627 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Columbia <1>
  • Millstadt Junction
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Millstadt Junction is located in Monroe County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millstadt Junction
  • Ivory
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Ivory is located in Saint Louis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ivory
  • Maxville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Wickes
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Wickes is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wickes
  • Affton
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Vulcan
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Vulcan is located in Saint Clair County (IL)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulcan
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Oakville ...

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 615 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oakville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oakville, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oakville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Oakville:

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 Oakville, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oakville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.