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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 Lawtonka Acres (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 Lawtonka Acres. 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.

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

  • Comanche County     (The home county of Lawtonka Acres)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawtonka Acres, with the one closest to Lawtonka Acres listed first.
    • Meers
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Medicine Park
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • The Holy City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • The Holy City is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Holy City
    • Lakeside Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Lakeside Village is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside Village
    • Richards Spur ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Richards Spur is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richards Spur
    • Fort Sill
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Artillery Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Artillery Village is located in Comanche County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artillery Village
    • Cache
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
    • Elgin
      (13 miles [20.9 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>
    • 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>
    • Fletcher
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Indiahoma
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Sterling
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Caddo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lawtonka Acres, with the one closest to Lawtonka Acres listed first.
    • Apache
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Alden
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Alden is located in Caddo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alden
    • Cyril
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Carnegie
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Fort Cobb
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Cement
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Indian City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Indian City is located in Caddo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian City
    • Washita
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Anadarko
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Cotton County
    • Hulen
      (25 miles [40.2 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 Lawtonka Acres, with the one closest to Lawtonka Acres listed first.
    • Cooperton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Cooperton is located in Kiowa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooperton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
    • Mountain Park
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Mountain View
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Snyder
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Gotebo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Roosevelt
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Stephens County
    • Central High
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Central High is located in Stephens County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central High
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,171 people

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

Cemeteries Near Lawtonka Acres ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lawtonka Acres.

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 Lawtonka Acres - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Mt. Scott Tribal Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Mountain Scott Tribal Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Mt. Scott Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Paradise Valley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Meers Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Comanche Indian Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Cache Creek Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Cache Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • 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
  • Ft. Sill Post Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Bailtso Apache South Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Beef Creek Apache Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (80 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 Lawtonka Acres in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lawtonka Acres.

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

  • Fort Sill
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Anadarko
    (26 miles [41.8 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 Lawtonka Acres. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lawtonka Acres.

Newspapers Published in Lawtonka Acres ...

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 136 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lawtonka Acres.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lawtonka Acres, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lawtonka Acres.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Lawtonka Acres:

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 Lawtonka Acres, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lawtonka Acres) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.