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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 Featherston (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 Featherston. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Featherston)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Featherston, with the one closest to Featherston listed first.
    • Blocker
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Quinton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Quinton is also located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quinton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 984 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Quinton <1>
    • Bristow Point
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Bristow Point is also located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristow Point
    • Carlton Landing
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Carlton Landing is also located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton Landing
    • Crowder
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Crowder is also located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crowder
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 402 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crowder <1>
    • Longtown
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Canadian
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Bug Tussle
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Bug Tussle is also located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Sams Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Sams Point is also located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sams Point
    • Haileyville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Hartshorne
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Alderson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Krebs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Krebs is also 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>
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Featherston, with the one closest to Featherston listed first.
    • Enterprise
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Kinta
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Hoyt
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Whitefield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Sans Bois
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Sans Bois is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Bois
    • Lequire
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Stigler
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • McCurtain
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Featherston, with the one closest to Featherston listed first.
    • Degnan
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Gowen
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Wilburton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Damon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Panola
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Red Oak
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Bengal
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Featherston, with the one closest to Featherston listed first.
    • Eufaula
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Carters Corner
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Carters Corner is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Corner
    • Texanna
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Texanna is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texanna
    • Vivian
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Vivian is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
    • Duchess Landing
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Duchess Landing is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchess Landing
    • Onapa
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Onapa is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onapa
      • Onapa has also been known as:
      • Bond
    • Stidham
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Hanna
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Checotah
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Shady Grove
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Shady Grove is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
    • Richardsville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Richardsville is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardsville
  • Muskogee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Featherston, with the one closest to Featherston listed first.
    • Porum
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Simms
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Simms is located in Muskogee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simms
    • Warner
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Featherston ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Featherston.

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

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

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

  • Featherston Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Courts Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Tea Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • West Liberty Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Massey Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • High Bridge Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Quinton Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Enterprise Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Bower Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • High Hill Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Kemp Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Degnan Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (132 more) ...
    • Enterprise Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cole Chapel Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Patterson Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Featherston ...

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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Featherston.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Featherston:

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