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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 Pine Top (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 Pine Top. 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 and 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.

Pine Top is located in Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg County: Atoka, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, McIntosh & Pushmataha.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Pine Top)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Top, with the one closest to Pine Top listed first.
    • Blanco
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Pittsburg
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Arch
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Kiowa
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Savanna
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Chambers
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • Alderson
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Haileyville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hartshorne
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Krebs
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • 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>
    • McAlester
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Haywood
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Haywood is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haywood
    • Ashland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Ashland is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashland
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 63 people
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Top, with the one closest to Pine Top listed first.
    • Daisy
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Wardville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Stringtown
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Farris
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Atoka
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Bruno
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Bruno is located in Atoka County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bruno
    • Lane
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Coal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Top, with the one closest to Pine Top listed first.
    • Coalgate
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Phillips
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Phillips is located in Coal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phillips
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 130 people
    • Lehigh
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Top, with the one closest to Pine Top listed first.
    • Stuart
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Non
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Non is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Non
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Top, with the one closest to Pine Top listed first.
    • Gowen
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Damon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Degnan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Wilburton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Top, with the one closest to Pine Top listed first.
    • Adel
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Stanley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Eubanks
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Eubanks is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eubanks
    • Clayton
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Moyers
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Tuskahoma
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Snow
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Finley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Pine Top ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Top.

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 Pine Top - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Pine Top Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Blanco Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Hewitt Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Vivian Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Brushy Indian Baptist Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Clay Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Union Chapel Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Pittsburg Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (115 more) ...
    • Burris Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Mountain Home Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Billy Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Pine Top ...

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 71 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Top.

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

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 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 Pine Top:

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Pine Top) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.