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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 Dwight Mission (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 Dwight Mission. 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 southwest 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 south.

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 south 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.

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

  • Sequoyah County     (The home county of Dwight Mission)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission listed first.
    • Marble City Community
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Marble City Community is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marble City Community
    • Marble City
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Pinhook Corners
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Pinhook Corners is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinhook Corners
    • Flute Springs
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Flute Springs is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flute Springs
    • McKey
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • McKey is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McKey
    • Brushy
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Brushy is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brushy
    • Evening Shade
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Sallisaw
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Vian
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Vian is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vian
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,356 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vian <1>
    • Box
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Seven Oaks
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Akins
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Akins is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Akins
    • Redbird Smith
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Redbird Smith is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbird Smith
  • Adair County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission listed first.
    • Bunch
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Greasy
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Greasy is located in Adair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greasy
    • Lyons
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Cherry Tree
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Rocky Mountain
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Rocky Mountain is located in Adair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Mountain
    • Bell
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Zion
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Zion is located in Adair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zion
    • Wauhillau
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Salem
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Salem is located in Adair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
    • Stilwell
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Marietta
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Fairfield
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Fairfield is located in Adair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairfield
    • West Peavine
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • West Peavine is located in Adair County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Peavine
  • Cherokee County
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission listed first.
    • Tamaha
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Tamaha is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tamaha
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 235 people
    • Keota
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Stigler
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • McCurtain
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Whitefield
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Le Flore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission listed first.
    • Cowlington
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Cowlington is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowlington
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 152 people
    • Fort Coffee
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Coffee is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Coffee
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 421 people
    • Spiro
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Bokoshe
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Skullyville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Arkoma
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Braden
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Panama
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Pocola
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Shady Point
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Muskogee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission listed first.
    • Webbers Falls
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Sour John
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Sour John is located in Muskogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sour John
    • Braggs
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Simms
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Simms is located in Muskogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simms
    • River Bottom
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • River Bottom is located in Muskogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Bottom
    • Porum
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Warner
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Fort Gibson
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Crawford County (AR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission listed first.
    • Barcelona
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Uniontown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Uniontown is located in Crawford County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uniontown
    • Natural Dam
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Cedarville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Van Buren
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Stop ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Stop is located in Crawford County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stop
    • Lee Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Lee Creek is located in Crawford County (AR)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee Creek
  • Sebastian County (AR)
  • Washington County (AR)

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

Cemeteries Near Dwight Mission ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dwight Mission.

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 Dwight Mission - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dwight Mission, with the one closest to Dwight Mission 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.<4>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Dwight Mission ...

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 87 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dwight Mission.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dwight Mission, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dwight Mission.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Dwight Mission:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Dwight Mission) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<4>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 Dwight Mission, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.