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

Oglesby is located in Washington 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 Washington County: Chautauqua (KS), Montgomery (KS), Nowata, Osage, Rogers & Tulsa.

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

  • Washington County     (The home county of Oglesby)
  • Nowata County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oglesby, with the one closest to Oglesby listed first.
    • Watova
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Nowata
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Delaware
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Coodys Bluff
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Lenapah
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • New Alluwe
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • New Alluwe is located in Nowata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Alluwe
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
    • Wann
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Sanders
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • South Coffeyville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • South Coffeyville is located in Nowata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Coffeyville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 730 people
  • Osage County
  • Rogers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oglesby, with the one closest to Oglesby listed first.
    • Talala
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jamestown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Jamestown is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jamestown
    • Oologah
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Limestone
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Limestone is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
    • Bushyhead
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Bushyhead is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushyhead
    • Foyil
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Chelsea
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Valley Park
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Valley Park is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
    • Sequoyah
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Claremore
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Justice
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Justice is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Justice
    • Verdigris
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Verdigris is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdigris
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,724 people
  • Tulsa County
  • Chautauqua County (KS)
    • Jonesburg ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jonesburg is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesburg
  • Montgomery County (KS)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oglesby, with the one closest to Oglesby listed first.
    • Caney
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Caney is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,948 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Caney <1>
    • Tyro
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Tyro is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyro
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
    • Dearing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Dearing is located in Montgomery County (KS)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearing
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 377 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dearing <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Oglesby ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oglesby.

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

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

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

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 Oglesby in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Oglesby.

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

  • Pawhuska
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Caney
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Caney is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caney
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,948 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Caney <1>
  • Tyro
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Tyro is located in Montgomery County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tyro
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 195 people
  • Wild Horse
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Jonesburg ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jonesburg is located in Chautauqua County (KS)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesburg

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

Newspapers Published in Oglesby ...

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 150 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oglesby.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oglesby, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oglesby.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Oglesby:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oglesby) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Oglesby, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.