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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 The Holy City (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 The Holy City. 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 and 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.

The Holy City is located in Comanche 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 Comanche County: Caddo, Cotton, Grady, Kiowa, Stephens & Tillman.

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

  • Comanche County     (The home county of The Holy City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from The Holy City, with the one closest to The Holy City listed first.
    • Meers
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Medicine Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Cache
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Cache is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cache
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,824 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Cache <1>
    • Richards Spur ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Richards Spur is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards Spur
    • Fort Sill
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Lakeside Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Lakeside Village is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside Village
    • Artillery Village
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Artillery Village is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artillery Village
    • Indiahoma
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Lawton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Lawton is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 93,164 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lawton <1>
    • Elgin
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Elgin is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,236 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elgin <1>
    • Faxon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Fletcher
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Caddo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from The Holy City, with the one closest to The Holy City listed first.
    • Alden
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Alden is located in Caddo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alden
    • Apache
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Cyril
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Carnegie
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Fort Cobb
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Cement
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Indian City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Indian City is located in Caddo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian City
    • Washita
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Anadarko
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Cotton County
    • Hulen
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Hulen is located in Cotton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hulen
  • Kiowa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from The Holy City, with the one closest to The Holy City listed first.
    • Cooperton
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Cooperton is located in Kiowa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooperton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
    • Mountain Park
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Snyder
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Roosevelt
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Mountain View
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Gotebo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Stephens County
    • Central High
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Central High is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central High
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,171 people
  • Tillman County
    • Manitou
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near The Holy City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of The Holy City.

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 The Holy City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Meers Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Mountain Scott Tribal Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Scott Tribal Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Scott Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Cache Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Paradise Valley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Cache Indian Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Memorial Gardens
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunset Memorial Gardens is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Lawton.
    • The Sunset Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
    • Sunset Memorial Garden Cemetery
  • Saddle Mtn. Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Deyo Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Post Oak Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Green Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (77 more) ...

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.<2>

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

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

Newspapers Published in The Holy City ...

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 149 newspapers that have been published in the area around The Holy City.

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

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 websites either 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 The Holy City:

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>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 The Holy City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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- The Holy City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.