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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 Red Oak (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 Red Oak. 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.

Name Variations for Red Oak ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Another variation: Redoak.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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.

Red Oak is located in Latimer County.

To see how the shape of Oklahoma's counties 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 Red Oak. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Red Oak:

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

Cemeteries Near Red Oak ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Red Oak.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Red Oak Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Oak Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Oak Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rock Creek Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rock Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Salonia Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Salonia Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Salonia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Brown's Prairie Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Le Flore Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Cedars Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedars Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cedars Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Baldwin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Peachland Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Norris Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Norris Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Norris Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lutie Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Riddle Family Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
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    • Hicks Chapel Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hicks Chapel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hicks Chapel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Shady Grove Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shady Grove Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shady Grove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Sans Bois Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sans Bois Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sans Bois Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Red Oak ...

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 62 newspapers that have been published in the area around Red Oak.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Red Oak. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Red Oak and those printed in the larger area surrounding Red Oak.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4> of Red Oak.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Red Oak:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Red Oak. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Red Oak) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Red Oak. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9531, Longitude: -95.0802    
<5>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.
<6>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.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 29 Apr 2025