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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 Lehigh (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 Lehigh. 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 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.

Lehigh is located in Coal 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 Coal County: Atoka, Hughes, Johnston, Pittsburg & Pontotoc.

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

  • Coal County     (The home county of Lehigh)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Phillips
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Phillips is located in Coal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 130 people
    • Coalgate
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Centrahoma
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Clarita
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Tupelo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Atoka
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Stringtown
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Tushka
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Tushka is located in Atoka County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tushka
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 400 people
    • Bruno
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Bruno is located in Atoka County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruno
    • Wardville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Caney
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Lane
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Bentley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Bentley is located in Atoka County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bentley
    • Farris
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Daisy
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Lone Pine
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Lone Pine is located in Atoka County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
  • Bryan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Caddo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Kenefic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Matoy
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Matoy is located in Bryan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoy
    • Armstrong
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Armstrong is located in Bryan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armstrong
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 111 people
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Non
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Non is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Non
    • Citra
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Citra is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citra
    • Gerty
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Gerty is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gerty
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
    • Stuart
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Johnston County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Wapanucka
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Bromide
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Coleman
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Connerville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Milburn
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Reagan
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Reagan is located in Johnston County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reagan
    • Tishomingo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Pittsburg County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Ashland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Ashland is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
    • Kiowa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Kiowa is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kiowa <1>
    • Pittsburg
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Pontotoc County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lehigh, with the one closest to Lehigh listed first.
    • Jesse
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jesse is located in Pontotoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jesse
    • Lula
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Lula is located in Pontotoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lula
    • Stonewall
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Harden City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Harden City is located in Pontotoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harden City
    • Fittstown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Franks
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Franks is located in Pontotoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franks
    • Ahloso
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Ahloso is located in Pontotoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ahloso
    • Allen
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Lehigh ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lehigh.

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

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

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

  • Lehigh Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Old Lehigh Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Lehigh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Macedonia Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Woodman Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Columbus Rose Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Coal Creek Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Sealy Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Whitehall Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Standing Rock Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (139 more) ...
    • Plainview Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Green Meadows Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Coalgate Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lehigh ...

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 53 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lehigh.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Lehigh:

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