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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 Libbey (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 Libbey. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

Libbey is located in Texas 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 Texas County: Morton (KS), Seward (KS), Stevens (KS), Beaver, Cimarron, Hansford (TX), Ochiltree (TX) & Sherman (TX).

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

  • Texas County     (The home county of Libbey)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Libbey, with the one closest to Libbey listed first.
    • Straight
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straight
      • Straight is located in Texas County
    • Goodwell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goodwell have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goodwell
      • Goodwell is located in Texas County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,264 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goodwell <2>
  • Cimarron County
    • Keyes
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Keyes have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyes
      • Keyes is located in Cimarron County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 277 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Keyes <2>
  • Baca County (CO)
  • Morton County (KS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Libbey, with the one closest to Libbey listed first.
    • Elkhart
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhart have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhart
      • Elkhart is located in Morton County (KS)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,727 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elkhart <2>
    • Rolla
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rolla have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolla
      • Rolla is located in Morton County (KS)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 348 people
    • Richfield
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
      • Richfield is located in Morton County (KS)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people

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

Newspapers Published in Libbey ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Libbey.

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

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 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 Libbey:

Cemeteries Near Libbey ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Libbey.

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

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

  • Cosmos Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Goff - Hagan Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goff - Hagan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goff - Hagan Cemetery
  • Kuhn Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Prairie Flower Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Flower Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Flower Cemetery
  • Hutsell Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hutsell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hutsell Cemetery
  • Baker Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Baker Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Baker Cemetery
  • Willow Bar Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Willow Bar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Willow Bar Cemetery
  • Bethel Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
  • Camp Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Camp Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Camp Cemetery
  • Rolla Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rolla Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rolla Cemetery
  • Marella Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Marella Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marella Cemetery
  • Barden Memorial Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
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    • Mt. Carmel Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Carmel Cemetery
    • Stonington Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stonington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stonington Cemetery
    • Richfield Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Richfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Richfield Cemetery

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.<5>

While we didn't find Libbey in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Libbey.

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

  • Richfield
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
    • Richfield is located in Morton County (KS)
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 35 people
  • Stonington
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Libbey) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Libbey. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.9372, Longitude: -101.9749       In this case, the coordinates for Libbey have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<5>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 Libbey, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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