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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 Karns (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 Karns. 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 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 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.

Karns is located in Canadian 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 Canadian County: Blaine, Caddo, Cleveland, Grady, Kingfisher, Logan, McClain & Oklahoma.

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

  • Canadian County     (The home county of Karns)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Karns, with the one closest to Karns listed first.
    • Calumet
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Calumet have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
      • Calumet is located in Canadian County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 612 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Calumet <2>
    • Concho
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Okarche
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • El Reno
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Powers
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powers
      • Powers is located in Canadian County
    • Richland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richland
      • Richland is located in Canadian County
    • Union City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Union City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union City
      • Union City is located in Canadian County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,209 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Union City <2>
    • Piedmont
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Piedmont have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedmont
      • Piedmont is located in Canadian County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,981 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Piedmont <2>
    • Yukon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yukon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yukon
      • Yukon is located in Canadian County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 28,793 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yukon <2>
  • Blaine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Karns, with the one closest to Karns listed first.
    • Geary
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Geary have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geary
      • Geary is located in Blaine County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,272 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Geary <2>
    • Greenfield
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenfield have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
      • Greenfield is located in Blaine County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 92 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Greenfield <2>
    • Watonga
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Hitchcock
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hitchcock have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitchcock
      • Hitchcock is located in Blaine County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 114 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hitchcock <2>
    • Eagle City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagle City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle City
      • Eagle City is located in Blaine County
  • Caddo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Karns, with the one closest to Karns listed first.
    • Bridgeport
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
      • Bridgeport is located in Caddo County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 110 people
    • Hinton
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hinton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinton
      • Hinton is located in Caddo County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,219 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hinton <2>
    • Lookeba
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Hydro
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hydro have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hydro
      • Hydro is located in Caddo County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 937 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hydro <2>
    • Sickles
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sickles. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sickles
      • Sickles is located in Caddo County
    • Binger
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Binger have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binger
      • Binger is located in Caddo County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 628 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Binger <2>
    • Albert
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Eakly
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Gracemont
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Custer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Karns, with the one closest to Karns listed first.
    • Weatherford
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weatherford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weatherford
      • Weatherford is located in Custer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,901 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weatherford <2>
    • Thomas
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Thomas have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thomas
      • Thomas is located in Custer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,178 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Thomas <2>
  • Dewey County
  • Grady County
    • Minco
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minco have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minco
      • Minco is located in Grady County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,645 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Minco <2>
  • Kingfisher County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Karns, with the one closest to Karns listed first.
    • Altona
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Altona. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altona
      • Altona is located in Kingfisher County
    • Omega
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Alpha
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alpha. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
      • Alpha is located in Kingfisher County
    • Kingfisher
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingfisher have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingfisher
      • Kingfisher is located in Kingfisher County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,891 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kingfisher <2>
    • Loyal
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyal
      • Loyal is located in Kingfisher County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Loyal <2>
    • Oneida
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Oneida. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneida
      • Oneida is located in Kingfisher County
    • Reeding
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reeding have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeding
      • Reeding is located in Kingfisher County
    • Dover
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dover
      • Dover is located in Kingfisher County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 472 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dover <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Karns ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Karns.

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 Karns covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Sunny Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunny Hill Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunny Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Calumet Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calumet Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Calumet Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Geary Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Geary Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Geary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Red Rock Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Rock Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Rock Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Canadian Valley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Canadian Valley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Canadian Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Salem Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salem Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salem Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Graceland Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graceland Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Graceland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Udora Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Udora Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Udora Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Baptist Indian Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Baptist Indian Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Baptist Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ft. Reno Post Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Reno Post Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Reno Post Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Prisoner of War Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prisoner of War Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prisoner of War Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Altona Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Altona Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Altona Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (99 more) ...
    • Hinton Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hinton Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hinton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Constien Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Constien Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Constien Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Buena Vista Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buena Vista Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Buena Vista Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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 Karns in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Karns.

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

  • Geary
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Geary have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geary
    • Geary is located in Blaine County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,272 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Geary <2>
  • Calumet
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Calumet have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
    • Calumet is located in Canadian County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 612 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Calumet <2>
  • Altona
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Altona. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altona
    • Altona is located in Kingfisher County
  • Okarche
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • El Reno
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Omega
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Alpha
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Alpha. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
    • Alpha is located in Kingfisher County
  • Watonga
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Kingfisher
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kingfisher have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingfisher
    • Kingfisher is located in Kingfisher County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,891 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kingfisher <2>
  • Oneida
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Oneida. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oneida
    • Oneida is located in Kingfisher County
  • Weatherford
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Weatherford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weatherford
    • Weatherford is located in Custer County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,901 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weatherford <2>
  • Fay
    (27 miles [43.5 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 Karns. See our List of 1890's Communities around Karns.

Newspapers Published in Karns ...

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 94 newspapers that have been published in the area around Karns.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Karns, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Karns.

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 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 Karns:

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

The official website for Canadian County: www.canadiancounty.org/

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>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 Karns, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Karns) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Karns. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.6239, Longitude: -98.2248       In this case, the coordinates for Karns have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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