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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 Owasso (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 Owasso. 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 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.

Owasso is primarily located in Tulsa County. A portion of Owasso extends into Rogers 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 Tulsa County: Creek, Okmulgee, Osage, Pawnee, Rogers, Wagoner & Washington.

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

  • Tulsa County     (The home county of Owasso)
  • Creek County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso listed first.
    • Sapulpa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Kiefer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Mannford
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Mayes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso listed first.
    • Chouteau
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Pryor Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Mazie
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Nowata County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso listed first.
    • Watova
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • New Alluwe
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • New Alluwe is located in Nowata County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Alluwe
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 85 people
    • Nowata
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Osage County
  • Pawnee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso listed first.
    • Leroy
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Mule Barn
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Mule Barn is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mule Barn
    • Shady Grove
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Shady Grove is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2 people
    • Oak Grove
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Westport
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Westport is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
  • Rogers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso listed first.
    • Limestone
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Limestone is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
    • Valley Park
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Valley Park is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
    • Catoosa
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Verdigris
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Verdigris is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdigris
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,724 people
    • Claremore
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Oologah
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Justice
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Justice is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Justice
    • Tiawah
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Tiawah is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiawah
    • Sequoyah
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Gregory
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Gregory is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
    • Talala
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Foyil
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Inola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Wagoner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso listed first.
    • Fair Oaks
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Fair Oaks is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Oaks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 100 people
    • New Tulsa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • New Tulsa is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Tulsa
    • Coweta
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Stonebluff
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Washington County

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

Cemeteries Near Owasso ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Owasso.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Owasso, with the one closest to Owasso 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 Owasso in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Owasso.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Owasso ...

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 Owasso.

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

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 helpful 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 Owasso:

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 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.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Owasso) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Owasso, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.