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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 Leedey (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 Leedey. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Leedey is located in Dewey 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 Dewey County: Blaine, Custer, Ellis, Major, Roger Mills & Woodward.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Leedey ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Leedey.

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

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

  • Evergreen Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • New Herman Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Herman Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Herman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • New Hermon Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Hermon Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Hermon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Red Star Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Star Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Star Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rhea Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rhea Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rhea Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Shirley Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shirley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shirley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Trail Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Trail Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Trail Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Dewey Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dewey Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dewey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Moorewood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moorewood Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moorewood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • German Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the German Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the German Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Yake Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Yake Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Yake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
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    • Halcomb Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Halcomb Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Halcomb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Center Chapel Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Center Chapel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Center Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Center Point Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Center Point Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Center Point Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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 Leedey in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Leedey.

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Leedey ...

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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Leedey.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Leedey. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Leedey and those printed in the larger area surrounding Leedey.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5> of Leedey.

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 Leedey:

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

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

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>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.
<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 Leedey, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Leedey) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Leedey. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8690, Longitude: -99.3447    









 

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