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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 Craig (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 Craig. 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.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Craig)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Haileyville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Hartshorne
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Alderson
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Arch
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Krebs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • 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>
    • McAlester
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Blanco
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Chambers
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Savanna
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Bug Tussle
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Blocker
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Pittsburg
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Kiowa
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Daisy
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Wardville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Kinta
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Enterprise
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
  • Hughes County
    • Stuart
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Gowen
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Degnan
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Damon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Wilburton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Panola
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Hanna
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Eufaula
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Craig, with the one closest to Craig listed first.
    • Adel
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Stanley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Clayton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuskahoma
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Eubanks
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Eubanks is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eubanks

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

Cemeteries Near Craig ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Craig.

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

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

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

  • Sulphur Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Elm Park Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Carbon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Cole Chapel Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Brushy Indian Baptist Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Pulcher Spring Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Kemp Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Gowen Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • High Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (115 more) ...
    • Calvary Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Haile Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Blanco Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 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 Craig. See our List of 1890's Communities around Craig.

Newspapers Published in Craig ...

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 64 newspapers that have been published in the area around Craig.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Craig, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Craig.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Craig:

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