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 Belfonte (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 Belfonte. 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 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.
Belfonte is located in Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County: Crawford (AR), Sebastian (AR), Adair, Cherokee, Haskell, Le Flore & Muskogee.
Below are the counties that are near Belfonte. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Belfonte:
- Sequoyah County (The home county of Belfonte)
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Long
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Long is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Long
- Short
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Short is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Short
- Remy
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Remy is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Remy
- Stoney Point
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Stoney Point is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoney Point
- Akins
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Akins is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akins
- Roland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Brushy
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Brushy is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushy
- Muldrow
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Seven Oaks
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Seven Oaks is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Oaks
- Moffett
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Gans
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Sallisaw
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Adair County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Greasy
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Greasy is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greasy
- Bell
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Bell is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell
- Cherry Tree
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Cherry Tree is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Tree
- Bunch
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Salem
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Salem is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
- Lyons
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lyons is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons
- Lyons has also been known as:
- Lyons Switch
- Zion
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Zion is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion
- Stilwell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Fairfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Fairfield is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield
- Marietta
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Rocky Mountain
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Rocky Mountain is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Mountain
- Peavine
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Peavine is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peavine
- Cherokee County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Barber
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Barber is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barber
- Dry Creek
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Dry Creek is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Creek
- Caney Ridge
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Caney Ridge is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney Ridge
- Cookson
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Tenkiller
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Tenkiller is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenkiller
- Carters Landing
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Carters Landing is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Landing
- Pettit Bay
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Pettit Bay is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettit Bay
- Pettit
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Pettit is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettit
- Keys
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Keys is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keys
- Eldon
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Eldon is located in Cherokee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eldon
- Welling
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Haskell County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Tamaha
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Tamaha is located in Haskell County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamaha
- Population from the 2020 Census: 235 people
- Keota
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Le Flore County
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Arkoma
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Fort Coffee
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Fort Coffee is located in Le Flore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Coffee
- Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
- Braden
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Braden is located in Le Flore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Braden
- Skullyville
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Skullyville is located in Le Flore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skullyville
- Cowlington
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Cowlington is located in Le Flore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowlington
- Population from the 2020 Census: 152 people
- Pocola
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Spiro
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Rock Island
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Rock Island is located in Le Flore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rock Island
- Population from the 2020 Census: 648 people
- Panama
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Bokoshe
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- Cameron
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Shady Point
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Crawford County (AR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Uniontown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Uniontown is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
- Barcelona
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Barcelona is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barcelona
- Cedarville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Natural Dam
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Van Buren
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lee Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lee Creek is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Creek
- Rudy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Rudy is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudy
- Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
- Stop ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Stop is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stop
- Concord
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Concord is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Concord
- Wright Town
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Wright Town is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wright Town
- Alma
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Alma is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,887 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alma <1>
- Anna ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Anna is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anna
- Sebastian County (AR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Fort Smith
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Buell
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Buell is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buell
- Barling
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Bonanza
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Bonanza is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonanza
- Population from the 2020 Census: 560 people
- Central City
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Central City is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 497 people
- Jenny Lind
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Jenny Lind is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenny Lind
- Hackett
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Lavaca
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Lavaca is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lavaca
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,439 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lavaca <1>
- Bloomer
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bloomer is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomer
- Greenwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Greenwood is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,396 people
- Ursula
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ursula is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ursula
- Washington County (AR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Evansville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Evansville is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evansville
- Morrow
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
- Morrow is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrow
- Skylight
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Skylight is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skylight
- Dutch Mills
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Dutch Mills is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutch Mills
- Strickler
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Strickler is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strickler
- Clyde
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Clyde is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
- Canehill
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Onda
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Onda is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onda
- Lincoln
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Winslow
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Summers
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Summers is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summers
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Belfonte, see our County-by-County Page for Belfonte.
Cemeteries Near Belfonte ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Belfonte.
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 Belfonte - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Belfonte covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Seabolt Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
- Long Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- John Seabolt Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Liberty Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Sequoyah Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Czarnikow Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Allison Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Maple Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Upper Camp Creek Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Woods Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Macedonia Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Akins Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Continue List (278 more) ...
- Thompson Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Spears Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Miller Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 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 Belfonte in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Belfonte.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Belfonte, with the one closest to Belfonte listed first.
- Uniontown
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Uniontown is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
- Barcelona
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Barcelona is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barcelona
- Dora
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Dora is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora
- Seven Oaks
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Seven Oaks is located in Sequoyah County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Oaks
- Natural Dam
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Van Buren
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Lee Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Lee Creek is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Creek
- Fort Smith
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Rudy
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Rudy is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rudy
- Population from the 2020 Census: 149 people
- Lyons
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Lyons is located in Adair County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyons
- Lyons has also been known as:
- Lyons Switch
- Stop ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Stop is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stop
- Cavanaugh
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Cavanaugh is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cavanaugh
- Continue List (13 more) ...
- Evansville
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Evansville is located in Washington County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evansville
- Massard
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Massard is located in Sebastian County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massard
- Catcher
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Catcher is located in Crawford County (AR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catcher
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Belfonte. See our List of 1890's Communities around Belfonte.
Newspapers Published in Belfonte ...
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 102 newspapers that have been published in the area around Belfonte.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Belfonte, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Belfonte.
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 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 Belfonte:
- Websites specific to Oklahoma
- Pages specific to Sequoyah County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Adair County
- Cherokee County
- Haskell County
- Le Flore County
- Crawford County
- Sebastian County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Oklahoma
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 Belfonte, 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 from Point A (ie- Belfonte) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |