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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 Lutie (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 Lutie. 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 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.

Lutie is located in Latimer 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 Latimer County: Haskell, Le Flore, Pittsburg & Pushmataha.

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

  • Latimer County     (The home county of Lutie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lutie, with the one closest to Lutie listed first.
    • Panola
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Wilburton
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Damon
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Degnan
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Red Oak
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Bengal
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
    • Gowen
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lutie, with the one closest to Lutie listed first.
    • Kinta
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Sans Bois
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Sans Bois is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sans Bois
    • Lequire
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Enterprise
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Whitefield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • McCurtain
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Hoyt
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Stigler
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Keota
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Le Flore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lutie, with the one closest to Lutie listed first.
    • Le Flore
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Le Flore is located in Le Flore County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Le Flore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 175 people
    • Talihina
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Fanshawe
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Summerfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Whitesboro
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Wister
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lutie, with the one closest to Lutie listed first.
    • Texanna
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Texanna is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texanna
    • Eufaula
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Muskogee County
    • Porum
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Pittsburg County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lutie, with the one closest to Lutie listed first.
    • Quinton
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hartshorne
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Haileyville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Blocker
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Bristow Point
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Bristow Point is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristow Point
    • Arch
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Alderson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Carlton Landing
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Carlton Landing is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton Landing
    • Bug Tussle
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Krebs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Krebs is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krebs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,000 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Krebs <1>
    • Crowder
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Longtown
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Canadian
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lutie, with the one closest to Lutie listed first.
    • Albion
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuskahoma
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Clayton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Stanley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Nashoba
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Adel
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel

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

Cemeteries Near Lutie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lutie.

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

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

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

  • Lutie Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lutie Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lutie Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located between<2> the communities of Wilburton and Panola.  The cemetery lies 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the west of Panola.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #98870 <4>
  • Riddle Family Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Wilburton Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Centerpoint Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Patterson Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Baldwin Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Degnan Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Brown's Prairie Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Damon Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (110 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Lutie ...

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 77 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lutie.

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

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 Lutie:

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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Wilburton and Panola. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<3>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- Lutie) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.