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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 Griggs (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 Griggs. 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 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.

Griggs is located in Cimarron County.

To see how the shape of Oklahoma's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Cimarron County: Baca (CO), Morton (KS), Union (NM), Texas & Dallam (TX).

Below are the counties that are near Griggs. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Griggs:

  • Cimarron County     (The home county of Griggs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Griggs, with the one closest to Griggs listed first.
    • Keyes
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Keyes have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyes
      • Keyes is located in Cimarron County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Keyes <2>
    • Boise City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Texas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Griggs, with the one closest to Griggs listed first.
    • Eva
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Eva. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eva
      • Eva is located in Texas County
    • Texhoma
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Goodwell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goodwell have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwell
      • Goodwell is located in Texas County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,264 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goodwell <2>
  • Morton County (KS)
    • Elkhart
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhart have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhart
      • Elkhart is located in Morton County (KS)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,727 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elkhart <2>
  • Dallam County (TX)
    • Kerrick
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Sherman County (TX)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Griggs, with the one closest to Griggs listed first.
    • Stratford
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Texhoma
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texhoma
      • Texhoma is located in Sherman County (TX)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 321 people

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

Cemeteries Near Griggs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Griggs.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Marella Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marella Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Marella Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Hutsell Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hutsell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hutsell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Baker Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Baker Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Baker Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Willow Bar Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Bar Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Willow Bar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Goff - Hagan Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goff - Hagan Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goff - Hagan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Garlington Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Garlington Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Garlington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Boise City Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boise City Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boise City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Goodwell Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goodwell Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goodwell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Cosmos Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Griggs ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Griggs.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Griggs, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Griggs.

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 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 Griggs:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Griggs. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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.
<5>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Griggs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Griggs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.6028, Longitude: -102.1224       In this case, the coordinates for Griggs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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