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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 Bartlesville (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 Bartlesville. 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 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.

Bartlesville is primarily located in Washington County and is the County Seat. A portion of Bartlesville extends into Osage 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 Washington County: Chautauqua (KS), Montgomery (KS), Nowata, Osage, Rogers & Tulsa.

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

  • Washington County     (The home county of Bartlesville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bartlesville, with the one closest to Bartlesville listed first.
    • Dewey
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Dewey is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewey
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,411 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dewey <1>
    • Hogshooter
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Copan
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Copan is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copan
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 746 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Copan <1>
    • Ochelata
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Oglesby
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Ramona
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Vera
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Vera is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vera
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vera <1>
  • Nowata County
  • Osage County
  • Rogers County
  • Tulsa County
  • Chautauqua County (KS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bartlesville, with the one closest to Bartlesville listed first.
    • Jonesburg ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Jonesburg is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesburg
    • Niotaze
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Niotaze is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niotaze
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
    • Chautauqua
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Peru
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Peru is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
    • Elgin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Elgin is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 79 people
      • Elgin has also been known as:
      • New Elgin
    • Monett
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Sedan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Montgomery County (KS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bartlesville, with the one closest to Bartlesville listed first.
    • Caney
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Caney is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,948 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Caney <1>
    • Tyro
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Tyro is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyro
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
    • Havana
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Havana is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
    • Dearing
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Dearing is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearing
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 377 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dearing <1>
    • Coffeyville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Kalloch ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Bartlesville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bartlesville.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bartlesville, with the one closest to Bartlesville 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.<3>

While we didn't find Bartlesville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Bartlesville.

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

  • Caney
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Caney is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,948 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Caney <1>
  • Jonesburg ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Jonesburg is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesburg
  • Pawhuska
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Tyro
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Tyro is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyro
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
  • Chautauqua
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Niotaze
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Niotaze is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niotaze
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 72 people
  • Havana
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Havana is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 104 people
  • Peru
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Peru is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peru
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
  • Elgin
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Elgin is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 79 people
    • Elgin has also been known as:
    • New Elgin
  • Dearing
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Dearing is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearing
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 377 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dearing <1>
  • Wayside
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Wayside is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wayside
  • Jefferson
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jefferson is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bartlesville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bartlesville.

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Bartlesville ...

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 106 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bartlesville.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Bartlesville. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Bartlesville and those printed in the larger area surrounding Bartlesville.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4> of Bartlesville.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Bartlesville:

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 Bartlesville, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Bartlesville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.