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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 Arpelar (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 Arpelar. 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 and 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.

Arpelar is located in Pittsburg County.

To see how the shape of Oklahoma's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pittsburg County: Atoka, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, McIntosh & Pushmataha.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Arpelar)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arpelar, with the one closest to Arpelar listed first.
    • Haywood
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Haywood is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood
    • Chambers
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Savanna
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • McAlester
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Krebs
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Krebs is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krebs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,000 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Krebs <1>
    • Ashland
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Ashland is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
    • Alderson
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Kiowa
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Kiowa is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kiowa <1>
    • Bug Tussle
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Blanco
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Pittsburg
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Indianola
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arpelar, with the one closest to Arpelar listed first.
    • Wardville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Daisy
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arpelar, with the one closest to Arpelar listed first.
    • Stuart
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Lamar
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Calvin
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Horntown
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Horntown is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horntown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
    • Non
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Non is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Non
    • Gerty
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Gerty is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerty
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Atwood
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Dustin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Dustin is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
    • Wetumka
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Yeager
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Yeager is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yeager
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 73 people
    • Citra
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Citra is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citra
    • Holdenville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Latimer County
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arpelar, with the one closest to Arpelar listed first.
    • Hanna
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Vivian
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Vivian is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
    • Carters Corner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Carters Corner is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Corner
  • Okfuskee County
    • Weleetka
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Okmulgee County
    • Salem
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Salem is located in Okmulgee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
  • Pontotoc County
    • Allen
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Arpelar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Arpelar.

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

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

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

  • Arpelar Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Hickory Grove Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Blue Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Christian Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • White Chimney Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lone Grove Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Memorial Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Tannehill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Pryor Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Ward Springs Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Hughlow Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Central State Hospital Annex Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (126 more) ...
    • Savanna Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Prison Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Rock Creek Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 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 Arpelar. See our List of 1890's Communities around Arpelar.

Newspapers Published in Arpelar ...

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 54 newspapers that have been published in the area around Arpelar.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Arpelar, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Arpelar.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Arpelar:

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 '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- Arpelar) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.