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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 Kellyville (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 Kellyville. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Kellyville is located in Creek 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 Creek County: Lincoln, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pawnee, Payne & Tulsa.

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

  • Creek County     (The home county of Kellyville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kellyville, with the one closest to Kellyville listed first.
    • Sapulpa
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Kiefer
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Mounds
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Slick
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Bristow
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Mannford
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Lawrence Creek
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Lawrence Creek is located in Creek County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawrence Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
    • Pulaski ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Silver City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Silver City is located in Creek County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Depew
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Shamrock
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Drumright
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kellyville, with the one closest to Kellyville listed first.
    • South Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • South Village is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Village
    • Stroud
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Avery
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Okfuskee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kellyville, with the one closest to Kellyville listed first.
    • Okfuskee
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Mason
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Ixl
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Ixl is located in Okfuskee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ixl
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
  • Okmulgee County
  • Osage County
  • Pawnee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kellyville, with the one closest to Kellyville listed first.
    • Shady Grove
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Shady Grove is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2 people
    • Leroy
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Westport
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Westport is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
    • Mule Barn
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Mule Barn is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mule Barn
    • Oak Grove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Terlton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jennings
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hallett
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cleveland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Payne County
  • Tulsa County
  • Wagoner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kellyville, with the one closest to Kellyville listed first.
    • Stonebluff
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • New Tulsa
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • New Tulsa is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Tulsa

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

Cemeteries Near Kellyville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kellyville.

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

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

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

  • Kellyville City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Baker Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Willie Tiger Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Felix Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Sunrise Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Lester Thomas Family Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Provens Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pickett Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Johns Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Jimmie Long Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Green Hill Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • South Heights Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (183 more) ...
    • Fairview Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • North Heights Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Sewell Family Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Kellyville ...

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 134 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kellyville.

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

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 Kellyville:

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 Kellyville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 from Point A (ie- Kellyville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.