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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 Rader (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 Rader. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Rader is located in Webster 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 Webster County: Christian, Dallas, Douglas, Greene, Laclede & Wright.

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

  • Webster County     (The home county of Rader)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rader, with the one closest to Rader listed first.
    • Niangua
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Niangua is located in Webster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niangua
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 424 people
    • Marshfield
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Conklin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Elkland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Elkland is located in Webster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkland
    • Crown
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Northview
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Diggins
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Diggins is located in Webster County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diggins
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 326 people
    • Seymour
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Fordland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sarvis Point
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Olga
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Rogersville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Camden County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rader, with the one closest to Rader listed first.
    • Stoutland
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Decaturville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Dallas County
  • Douglas County
    • Johns Mills ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Johns Mills is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns Mills
  • Greene County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rader, with the one closest to Rader listed first.
    • Fair Grove
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Strafford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Turners
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Turners is located in Greene County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turners
  • Laclede County
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rader, with the one closest to Rader listed first.
    • Tin Town
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Goodnight
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Goodnight is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodnight
      • Estimated population in 2019: 18 people
      • Goodnight has also been known as:
      • Goodnight village
    • Halfway
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Halfway is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halfway
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 179 people
    • Pleasant Hope
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Texas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rader, with the one closest to Rader listed first.
    • Plato
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Bendavis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Bendavis is located in Texas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bendavis
    • Huggins
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Wright County

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

Cemeteries Near Rader ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rader.

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

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

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

  • Good Spring Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Builderback Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Anderson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Weaver Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Roper Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Hendrix Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Letterman Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Williams Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Bramhall Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Graceland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Reed Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Davis Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (260 more) ...
    • Hicks Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pisgah Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Conway Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 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.<2>

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

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

  • Pease
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Conway
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Grovespring
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Phillipsburg
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Orla
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Orla is located in Laclede County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orla
  • Bracken
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Bracken is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bracken
  • Brush Creek
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Forkners Hill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Forkners Hill is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forkners Hill
  • Russ
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Russ is located in Laclede County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Russ
  • Duncan
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Duncan is located in Webster County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duncan
  • Marshfield
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Boyer
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Boyer is located in Wright County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Odin
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Fuson
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Fuson is located in Wright County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fuson
    • Long Lane
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Rader ...

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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rader.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rader, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rader.

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 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 Rader:

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