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 Tuckahoe (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 Tuckahoe. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Tuckahoe 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 Tuckahoe. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tuckahoe:
- Jasper County (The home county of Tuckahoe)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Airport Drive
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Airport Drive is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airport Drive
- Population from the 2020 Census: 862 people
- Thoms
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Thoms is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thoms
- Lone Elm
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Lone Elm is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Elm
- Oakland Park
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Oakland Park is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakland Park
- Webb City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Carl Junction
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dupont ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dupont is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dupont
- Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- West Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- West Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Joplin
- East Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- East Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Joplin
- Iron Gates
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Iron Gates is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Gates
- Central City
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Central City is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central City
- Barton County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Nashville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Nashville is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville
- Mindenmines
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Oakton
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Oakton is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakton
- Kenoma
(28 miles [45.1 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 northeast)
- Lamar Heights is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamar Heights
- Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
- Lamar
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Burgess
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Burgess is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burgess
- Estimated population in 2017: 54 people
- Liberal
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Liberal is located in Barton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberal
- Population from the 2020 Census: 702 people
- Golden City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Lawrence County
- Red Oak
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Red Oak is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Oak
- McDonald County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- May
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- May is located in McDonald County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
- Goodman
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Erie
(29 miles [46.7 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 Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Dennis Acres
(5 miles [8 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
- Grand Falls Plaza
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Grand Falls Plaza is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grand Falls Plaza
- Population from the 2020 Census: 112 people
- Leawood
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Leawood is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leawood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 678 people
- Shoal Creek Drive
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- 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
(7 miles [11.3 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
(7 miles [11.3 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
- Shoal Creek Estates
(7 miles [11.3 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
- Saginaw
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Saginaw is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saginaw
- Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
- Silver Creek
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Silver Creek is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Creek
- Estimated population in 2012: 631 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 south)
- Loma Linda is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Linda
- Population from the 2020 Census: 782 people
- Diamond
(14 miles [22.5 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 Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- East Galena
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- East Galena is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Galena
- Empire City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Empire City is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
- Galena
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Badger
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Badger is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Badger
- South Galena
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- South Galena is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Galena
- Lawton
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Lawton is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
- Lowell
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Lowell is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lowell
- Lowell has also been known as:
- Lowell Station
- Crestline
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Crestline is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crestline
- Riverton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Quaker
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Quaker is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quaker
- Baxter Junction
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Baxter Junction is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baxter Junction
- Baxter Springs
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Crawford County (KS)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Opolis
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Opolis is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opolis
- Kirkwood
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Kirkwood is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkwood
- Klendike
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Klendike is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klendike
- Cherokee
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pittsburg
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Cornell
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Cornell is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cornell
- Frontenac
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Lone Oak
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Lone Oak is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Oak
- Yale
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Yale is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yale
- Capaldo
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Capaldo is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capaldo
- Curranville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Curranville is located in Crawford County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Curranville
- Beulah
(27 miles [43.5 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 Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Hockerville ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hockerville is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hockerville
- Peoria
(16 miles [25.7 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
- Lincolnville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Lincolnville is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincolnville
- Quapaw
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Picher ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Cardin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Commerce
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Ottawa
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Ottawa is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ottawa
- North Miami
(24 miles [38.6 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
- Miami
(25 miles [40.2 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>
- Wyandotte
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Kellyville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Kellyville is located in Ottawa County (OK)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellyville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tuckahoe, see our County-by-County Page for Tuckahoe.
Cemeteries Near Tuckahoe ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tuckahoe.
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 Tuckahoe - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tuckahoe covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Peace Church Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles 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.
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- 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>
- Sherwood Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Fairview Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Ozark Memorial Park Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- 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
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Howard Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Webb City Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- 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>
- Carl Junction Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Twin Grove Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Osborne Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Parkway Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Continue List (228 more) ...
- Miller Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Carterville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Laxton Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
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, Tuckahoe had a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Tuckahoe, with the one closest to Tuckahoe listed first.
- Thoms
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Thoms is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thoms
- West Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- West Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Joplin
- Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- East Joplin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- East Joplin is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Joplin
- Webb City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Carl Junction
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dupont ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Dupont is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dupont
- Blendville ‑ Historic
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Blendville is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blendville
- Smithfield
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Smithfield is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smithfield
- Prosperity
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Prosperity is located in Jasper County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Prosperity
- Carterville
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Oronogo
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Empire City
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Empire City is located in Cherokee County (KS)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
- Galena
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Saginaw
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Saginaw is located in Newton County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saginaw
- Population from the 2020 Census: 305 people
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tuckahoe. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tuckahoe.
Newspapers Published in Tuckahoe ...
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 61 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tuckahoe.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tuckahoe, 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 Tuckahoe.
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 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 Tuckahoe:
- Websites specific to Missouri
- Pages specific to Jasper County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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 Tuckahoe, 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- Tuckahoe) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |