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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 Stover (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 Stover. 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 and hospitals 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.

Stover is located in Morgan 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 Morgan County: Benton, Camden, Cooper, Miller, Moniteau & Pettis.

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

  • Morgan County     (The home county of Stover)
  • Benton County
  • Camden County
  • Cole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover listed first.
    • Decatur
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Russellville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Cooper County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover listed first.
    • Otterville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Clifton City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Clifton City is located in Cooper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clifton City
    • Petersburg ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Petersburg is located in Cooper County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
    • Bunceton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Harriston
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Bellair
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Lone Elm
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pisgah
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pilot Grove
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Henry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover listed first.
    • Windsor
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Yolo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Miller County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover listed first.
    • Aurora Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Eldon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Olean
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Lakeland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Lakeland is located in Miller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeland
    • Pleasant Mount
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Bagnell
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Lakeside
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lakeside is located in Miller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside
    • Lakeview
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lakeview is located in Miller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
    • Etterville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Etterville is located in Miller County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etterville
    • Kaiser
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Moniteau County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover listed first.
    • Fortuna
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Fortuna is located in Moniteau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortuna
    • Latham
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Latham is located in Moniteau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latham
    • Tipton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • High Point
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Clarksburg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Clarksburg is located in Moniteau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarksburg
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
    • California
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • McGirk
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • McGirk is located in Moniteau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGirk
  • Pettis County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover listed first.
    • Spring Fork
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Spring Fork is located in Pettis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Fork
    • Smithton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Sedalia
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Georgetown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Green Ridge
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Green Ridge is located in Pettis County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Ridge
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 495 people

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

Cemeteries Near Stover ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stover.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stover, with the one closest to Stover 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.<4>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Stover had a population of 47 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Stover had a population of 1,096 people.

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

  • Pyrmont
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Pyrmont is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pyrmont
  • Boylers Mill
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Boylers Mill is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boylers Mill
  • Todd ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Todd is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Todd
  • Versailles
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Glensted
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Lake Creek
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake Creek is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Creek
  • Florence
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Bahner
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bahner is located in Pettis County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bahner
  • Cole Camp
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Zora
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Riverview
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Riverview is located in Morgan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverview
  • Gravois Mills
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Proctor
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Proctor is located in Morgan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proctor
    • Fortuna
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Fortuna is located in Moniteau County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortuna
    • Mora
      (13 miles [20.9 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 Stover. See our List of 1890's Communities around Stover.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Stover ...

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 152 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stover.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Stover. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Stover and those printed in the larger area surrounding Stover.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Stover.

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 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 Stover:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Stover) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Stover, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.