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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 Sams Corner (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 Sams Corner. 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 Sams Corner ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Sams Corner: Sams Cor. (or less commonly used: Sams Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Sams Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Sams Corner may originally have been Sam's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Sams Corner might be written as Sam Corner.

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 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.

Sams Corner is located in Mayes 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 Mayes County: Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Rogers & Wagoner.

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

  • Mayes County     (The home county of Sams Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sams Corner, with the one closest to Sams Corner listed first.
    • Locust Grove
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Sportsmen Acres
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Sportsmen Acres is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sportsmen Acres
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
    • Murphy
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Murphy is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy
    • Ballou
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Cedar Crest
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Iron Post
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Iron Post is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Post
    • Pin Oaks Acres
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Pin Oaks Acres is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pin Oaks Acres
    • Chouteau
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Snake Creek
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Snake Creek is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snake Creek
    • Salina
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Pump Back
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Pryor Creek
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Mazie
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Adair County
  • Cherokee County
  • Craig County
  • Delaware County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sams Corner, with the one closest to Sams Corner listed first.
    • Leach
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Leach is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leach
    • Rocky Ford
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Rocky Ford is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Ford
    • Old Eucha
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Old Eucha is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Eucha
    • Bull Hollow
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Bull Hollow is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Hollow
    • Tagg Flats
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Tagg Flats is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tagg Flats
    • Oaks
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Oaks is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oaks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 283 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Oaks <2>
    • Twin Oaks
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Kansas
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Eucha
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • New Eucha
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • New Eucha is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Eucha
    • Cloud Creek
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Flint Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Flint Creek is located in Delaware County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flint Creek
    • Beckwith
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Muskogee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sams Corner, with the one closest to Sams Corner listed first.
    • Wybark
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Fort Gibson
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Bacone
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Rogers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sams Corner, with the one closest to Sams Corner listed first.
    • Gregory
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Gregory is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
    • Inola
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Tiawah
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Tiawah is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiawah
    • Justice
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Justice is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Justice
    • Sequoyah
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Bushyhead
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Bushyhead is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bushyhead
    • Foyil
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Claremore
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Verdigris
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Verdigris is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Verdigris
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,724 people
    • Chelsea
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Valley Park
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Valley Park is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
    • Catoosa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Limestone
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Limestone is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
  • Wagoner County

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

Cemeteries Near Sams Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sams Corner.

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 Sams Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Keith
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Keith is located in Rogers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keith

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

Newspapers Published in Sams Corner ...

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 102 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sams Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sams Corner, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sams Corner.

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 Sams Corner:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 Sams Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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- Sams Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.