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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 Centerville (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 Centerville. 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.

Centerville 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 Centerville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Centerville:

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Centerville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Centerville, with the one closest to Centerville listed first.
    • Hartshorne
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Haileyville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Arch
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Alderson
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Krebs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Blocker
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Bug Tussle
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • McAlester
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Blanco
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Chambers
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Bristow Point
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Bristow Point is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristow Point
    • Savanna
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Crowder
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Atoka County
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Centerville, with the one closest to Centerville listed first.
    • Kinta
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Enterprise
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Sans Bois
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Sans Bois is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Bois
    • Lequire
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hoyt
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Centerville, with the one closest to Centerville listed first.
    • Gowen
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Degnan
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Damon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Wilburton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Panola
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Bengal
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
    • Red Oak
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Le Flore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Centerville, with the one closest to Centerville listed first.
    • Talihina
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Le Flore
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Le Flore is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Le Flore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Centerville, with the one closest to Centerville listed first.
    • Eufaula
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Carters Corner
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Carters Corner is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Corner
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Centerville, with the one closest to Centerville listed first.
    • Adel
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Clayton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuskahoma
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Stanley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Albion
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Centerville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Centerville.

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

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

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

  • Gowen Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Cole Chapel Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Elm Park Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Mountain Station Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • High Bridge Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Sulphur Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Pulcher Spring Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Courts Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Kemp Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (121 more) ...
    • High Hill Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Carbon Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Damon Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Centerville ...

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 70 newspapers that have been published in the area around Centerville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Centerville, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Centerville.

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 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 Centerville:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Centerville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.