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 Wilsons Creek (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 Wilsons Creek. 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.
Name Variations for Wilsons Creek ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.
- A typical abbreviation for Wilsons Creek: Wilsons Crk. (or less commonly used: Wilsons Ck. or Wilsons Cr.)
- While the name of this community is Wilsons Creek, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Wilsons Creek may originally have been Wilson's Creek.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Wilsons Creek might be written as Wilson Creek.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 hospitals 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.
Wilsons Creek is located in Greene 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 Greene County: Christian, Dade, Dallas, Lawrence, Polk & Webster.
Below are the counties that are near Wilsons Creek. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wilsons Creek:
- Greene County (The home county of Wilsons Creek)
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Battlefield
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Battlefield is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battlefield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 6,665 people
- Brookline
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Brookline is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookline
- Brookline Station
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Brookline Station is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookline Station
- Sequiota
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Sequiota is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sequiota
- Springfield
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Langston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Langston is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langston
- Mumford
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Mumford is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mumford
- Bois D'Arc
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Willard
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Turners
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Turners is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turners
- Ash Grove
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Strafford
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Phenix ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
- Phenix is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phenix
- Phenix has also been known as:
- Phenix Quarry
- Barry County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Scholten
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Scholten is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scholten
- Leann
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Leann is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leann
- Jenkins
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Jenkins is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenkins
- Tom Town ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Tom Town is located in Barry County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tom Town
- Christian County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Republic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Clever
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Nixa
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Nixa is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nixa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23,330 people
- Former name for Nixa:
- Faught
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nixa <2>
- Cassidy
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Cassidy is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassidy
- Fremont Hills
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Fremont Hills is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fremont Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 936 people
- Billings
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Ozark
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Highlandville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Linden
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Linden is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linden
- Pembina
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Pembina is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pembina
- Spokane
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Green Mound Ridge
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Green Mound Ridge is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Mound Ridge
- Sparta
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Dade County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Everton
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Pilgrim
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Pilgrim is located in Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pilgrim
- Dadeville
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- South Greenfield
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- South Greenfield is located in Dade County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Greenfield
- Population from the 2020 Census: 86 people
- Douglas County
- Johns Mills ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Johns Mills is located in Douglas County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johns Mills
- Lawrence County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Halltown
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Marionville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Aurora
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Stinson
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Stinson is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stinson
- Heatonville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Heatonville is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heatonville
- Mount Vernon
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Verona
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Verona is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verona
- Population from the 2020 Census: 606 people
- Hoberg
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Hoberg is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoberg
- Population from the 2020 Census: 57 people
- Miller
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Freistatt
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Freistatt is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freistatt
- Population from the 2020 Census: 160 people
- Round Grove
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Round Grove is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Grove
- Stotts City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Stotts City is located in Lawrence County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stotts City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 215 people
- Polk County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Brighton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Graydon Springs
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Graydon Springs is located in Polk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graydon Springs
- Goodnight
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- 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
- Morrisville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Hope
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Eudora
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Eudora is located in Polk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eudora
- Tin Town
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Tin Town is located in Polk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tin Town
- Wishart
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Wishart is located in Polk County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wishart
- Stone County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Union City
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Union City is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union City
- Hurley
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Bradfield
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Bradfield is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradfield
- Ponce de Leon
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Ponce de Leon is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponce de Leon
- White City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- White City is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
- Oto
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Oto is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oto
- Crane
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Galena
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- McCord Bend
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- McCord Bend is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCord Bend
- Population from the 2020 Census: 304 people
- Reeds Spring
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Cape Fair
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Branson West
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Branson West is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Branson West
- Population from the 2020 Census: 451 people
- Lakeview
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Lakeview is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
- Taney County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Day
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Day is located in Taney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Day
- Walnut Shade
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Walnut Shade is located in Taney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Shade
- Bull Creek
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bull Creek is located in Taney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Creek
- Population from the 2020 Census: 633 people
- Merriam Woods
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Merriam Woods is located in Taney County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Merriam Woods
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,859 people
- Rockaway Beach
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Webster County
- The following are listed by their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Rogersville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Fordland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Northview
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Northview is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northview
- Olga
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Olga is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
- Crown
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Crown is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crown
- Conklin
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Conklin is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conklin
- Diggins
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Diggins is located in Webster County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diggins
- Population from the 2020 Census: 326 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Wilsons Creek, see our County-by-County Page for Wilsons Creek.
Cemeteries Near Wilsons Creek ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wilsons Creek.
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 Wilsons Creek - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Wilsons Creek covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Manley Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Hale Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Edgar Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Delaware Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Manley Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
- Phillips Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Harrington Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Kerr Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Green Valley Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Gibson Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
- Bledsoe Memorial Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lindsey Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Continue List (292 more) ...
- Wise Hill Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Little Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- Turner Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
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>
While we didn't find Wilsons Creek in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Wilsons Creek.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Wilsons Creek, with the one closest to Wilsons Creek listed first.
- Griffin ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Griffin is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Griffin
- Republic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Brookline Station
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Brookline Station is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brookline Station
- Nixa
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Nixa is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nixa
- Population from the 2020 Census: 23,330 people
- Former name for Nixa:
- Faught
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nixa <2>
- Billings
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Cassidy
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Cassidy is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cassidy
- Yeakley ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Yeakley is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeakley
- Nichols
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Nichols is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nichols
- School
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- School is located in Stone County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for School
- Riverdale
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Riverdale is located in Christian County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale
- Galloway
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Galloway is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galloway
- Springfield
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Langston
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Langston is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langston
- Ritter
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Ritter is located in Greene County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritter
- Ozark
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Wilsons Creek. See our List of 1890's Communities around Wilsons Creek.
Newspapers Published in Wilsons Creek ...
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 135 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wilsons Creek.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wilsons Creek, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wilsons Creek.
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 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 Wilsons Creek:
- Websites specific to Missouri
- Pages specific to Greene County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Barry County
- Christian County
- Dade County
- Douglas County
- Lawrence County
- Polk County
- Stone County
- Taney County
- Webster County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Missouri
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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 Wilsons Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Wilsons Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |