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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 Krebs (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 Krebs. 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 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 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.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Krebs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Alderson
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • McAlester
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Bug Tussle
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Chambers
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Haileyville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Savanna
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Hartshorne
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Arch
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Blocker
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Blanco
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Crowder
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Haywood
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Haywood is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood
    • Bristow Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Bristow Point is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristow Point
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Wardville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Daisy
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Enterprise
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Kinta
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Stuart
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Lamar
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Dustin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Dustin is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
    • Calvin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Gowen
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Degnan
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Damon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Wilburton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Panola
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Hanna
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Vivian
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Vivian is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
    • Carters Corner
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Carters Corner is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Corner
    • Eufaula
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Stidham
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Krebs, with the one closest to Krebs listed first.
    • Adel
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Stanley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley

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

Cemeteries Near Krebs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Krebs.

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

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

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

  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • North McAlester Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Memory Gardens
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Haile Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Carbon Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Prison Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Central State Hospital Annex Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Kemp Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • High Hill Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Tannehill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (121 more) ...
    • Shady Grove Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Blue Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Christian Hill Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Krebs ...

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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Krebs.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Krebs. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Krebs and those printed in the larger area surrounding Krebs.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2> of Krebs.

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 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 Krebs:

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