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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 Dow (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 Dow. 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.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Dow)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dow, with the one closest to Dow listed first.
    • Haileyville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hartshorne
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Alderson
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Krebs
      (7 miles [11.3 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>
    • Arch
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • McAlester
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Bug Tussle
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Chambers
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Blocker
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Blanco
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Savanna
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Bristow Point
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Bristow Point is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristow Point
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dow, with the one closest to Dow listed first.
    • Daisy
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Wardville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dow, with the one closest to Dow listed first.
    • Kinta
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Enterprise
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Sans Bois
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Sans Bois is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Bois
  • Hughes County
    • Stuart
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dow, with the one closest to Dow listed first.
    • Gowen
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Degnan
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Damon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Wilburton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Panola
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Red Oak
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Bengal
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dow, with the one closest to Dow listed first.
    • Hanna
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Carters Corner
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Carters Corner is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Corner
    • Eufaula
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Vivian
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Vivian is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dow, with the one closest to Dow listed first.
    • Adel
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Stanley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Clayton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuskahoma
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Dow ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dow.

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

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

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

  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Elm Park Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Cole Chapel Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Carbon Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Kemp Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Sulphur Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • High Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Gowen Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Courts Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (121 more) ...
    • Haile Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Pulcher Spring Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Memory Gardens
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Dow ...

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 67 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dow.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dow, 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 Dow.

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 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 Dow:

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