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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 Reams (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 Reams. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Reams 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 Reams. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Reams:

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Reams)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reams, with the one closest to Reams listed first.
    • Bug Tussle
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Crowder
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Bristow Point
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bristow Point is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bristow Point
    • Blocker
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Indianola
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Canadian
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Sams Point
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Sams Point is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sams Point
    • Krebs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • 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
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Alderson
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Carlton Landing
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Carlton Landing is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlton Landing
    • Chambers
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
  • Haskell County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reams, with the one closest to Reams listed first.
    • Enterprise
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Enterprise is located in Haskell County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Kinta
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Hoyt
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Whitefield
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Hughes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reams, with the one closest to Reams listed first.
    • Dustin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Dustin is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
    • Lamar
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Stuart
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Horntown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Horntown is located in Hughes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horntown
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 94 people
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reams, with the one closest to Reams listed first.
    • Gowen
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Degnan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Wilburton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Damon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Panola
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reams, with the one closest to Reams listed first.
    • Hanna
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Carters Corner
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Carters Corner is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carters Corner
    • Vivian
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Vivian is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vivian
    • Eufaula
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Stidham
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Onapa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Onapa is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onapa
      • Onapa has also been known as:
      • Bond
    • Texanna
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Texanna is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texanna
    • Duchess Landing
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Duchess Landing is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchess Landing
    • Richardsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Richardsville is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richardsville
    • Checotah
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Okmulgee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Reams, with the one closest to Reams listed first.
    • Salem
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Salem is located in Okmulgee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salem
    • Hoffman
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Hoffman is located in Okmulgee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoffman
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
    • Dewar
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Henryetta
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Spelter City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Spelter City is located in Okmulgee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spelter City

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

Cemeteries Near Reams ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Reams.

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

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

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

  • Massey Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Shady Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Indianola Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Memory Gardens
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Prison Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • North McAlester Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • High Hill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Kemp Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • McDougal Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Tannehill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (128 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Reams ...

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 87 newspapers that have been published in the area around Reams.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Reams:

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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Reams) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.