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 Rankin (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 Rankin. 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 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.
Rankin is located in Andrew 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 Andrew County: Doniphan (KS), Buchanan, DeKalb, Gentry, Holt & Nodaway.
Below are the counties that are near Rankin. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rankin:
- Andrew County (The home county of Rankin)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Fillmore
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Fillmore is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 188 people
- Rosendale
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Bolckow
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bolckow is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolckow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 187 people
- Wyeth ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Wyeth is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyeth
- Rea
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Rea is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rea
- Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
- Savannah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Nodaway
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Nodaway is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nodaway
- Amazonia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Amazonia is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amazonia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Avenue City ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Avenue City is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenue City
- Rochester ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rochester is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rochester
- Country Club
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Country Club is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Country Club
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,530 people
- Helena
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Helena is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
- Buchanan County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Saint Joseph
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Saxton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Saxton is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saxton
- Matney
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Matney is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matney
- Easton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Easton is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Easton
- Population from the 2020 Census: 233 people
- Agency
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Willow Brook
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
- Willow Brook is located in Buchanan County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Brook
- DeKalb County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Union Star
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Union Star is located in DeKalb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Star
- Population from the 2020 Census: 415 people
- Winslow
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Winslow is located in DeKalb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winslow
- Clarksdale
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Clarksdale is located in DeKalb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksdale
- Population from the 2020 Census: 254 people
- Amity
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Amity is located in DeKalb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amity
- Population from the 2020 Census: 53 people
- Fairport
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Fairport is located in DeKalb County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
- Stewartsville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Gentry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Island City
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Island City is located in Gentry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- King City
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Stanberry
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Ford City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Ford City is located in Gentry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford City
- Alanthus Grove
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Alanthus Grove is located in Gentry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus Grove
- Darlington
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Darlington is located in Gentry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
- Gentryville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Gentryville is located in Gentry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gentryville
- Holt County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- New Point
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- New Point is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Point
- Maitland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Maitland is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maitland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
- Oregon
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Forbes
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Forbes is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forbes
- Forest City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Mound City
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Bigelow
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Bigelow is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigelow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23 people
- Fortescue
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Fortescue is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortescue
- Population from the 2020 Census: 28 people
- Big Lake
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Big Lake is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Lake
- Population from the 2020 Census: 138 people
- Craig
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Corning
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Corning is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corning
- Population from the 2020 Census: 13 people
- Nodaway County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Barnard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Guilford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Guilford is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guilford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
- Graham
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Graham is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 153 people
- Arkoe
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Arkoe is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arkoe
- Population from the 2020 Census: 62 people
- Conception
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Skidmore
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Clyde
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Clyde is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
- Population from the 2020 Census: 78 people
- Conception Junction
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Conception Junction is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conception Junction
- Population from the 2020 Census: 180 people
- Maryville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Quitman
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Quitman is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quitman
- Estimated population in 2017: 42 people
- Ravenwood
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Ravenwood is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ravenwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 394 people
- Pickering
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Pickering is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pickering
- Population from the 2020 Census: 141 people
- Doniphan County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Iowa Point
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Iowa Point is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iowa Point
- Blair
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Blair is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
- Fanning
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Fanning is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fanning
- Sparks
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Sparks is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sparks
- White Cloud
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- White Cloud is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Cloud
- Population from the 2020 Census: 165 people
- Elwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Elwood is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,176 people
- Wathena
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Troy
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Troy is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
- Population from the 2020 Census: 946 people
- Palermo
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Palermo is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palermo
- Highland
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Moray
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Moray is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moray
- Brenner
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Brenner is located in Doniphan County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brenner
- Richardson County (NE)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Rulo
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Rulo is located in Richardson County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rulo
- Population from the 2020 Census: 159 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rulo <1>
- Arago ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Arago is located in Richardson County (NE)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arago
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rankin, see our County-by-County Page for Rankin.
Cemeteries Near Rankin ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rankin.
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 Rankin - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rankin covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Fillmore Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Bennett Lane Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Litchfield Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- McGuire Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Jackson Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Clizer Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Gillispie Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Kellogg Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Bolckow Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolckow Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bolckow Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Bolckow.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #240131 <2>
- Nodaway Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Coffman Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Shamberger Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (206 more) ...
- Baker Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Hackberry Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- McGlothlin Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGlothlin Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the McGlothlin Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the southeast of Wyeth.
- The McGlothlin Cemetery has also been known as:
- Bowman Cemetery
- McLaughlin Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1987591 <2>
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.<4>
While we didn't find Rankin in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rankin.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Rankin, with the one closest to Rankin listed first.
- Fillmore
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Fillmore is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fillmore
- Population from the 2020 Census: 188 people
- Rosendale
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Bolckow
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bolckow is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bolckow
- Population from the 2020 Census: 187 people
- Rea
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Rea is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rea
- Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
- Barnard
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- New Point
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- New Point is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Point
- Savannah
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Cawood ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Cawood is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cawood
- Whitesville ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Whitesville is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitesville
- Nodaway
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Nodaway is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nodaway
- Guilford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Guilford is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guilford
- Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
- Graham
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Graham is located in Nodaway County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
- Population from the 2020 Census: 153 people
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Amazonia
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Amazonia is located in Andrew County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amazonia
- Population from the 2020 Census: 320 people
- Maitland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Maitland is located in Holt County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maitland
- Population from the 2020 Census: 296 people
- Oregon
(13 miles [20.9 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 Rankin. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rankin.
Newspapers Published in Rankin ...
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 170 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rankin.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rankin, 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 Rankin.
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 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 Rankin:
- Websites specific to Missouri
- Pages specific to Andrew County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Buchanan County
- DeKalb County
- Gentry County
- Holt County
- Nodaway County
- Doniphan County
- Richardson 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> | 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- Rankin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Rankin, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |