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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 Sand Springs (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 Sand Springs. 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 Sand Springs ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Sand Springs: Sand Spgs. (or less commonly used: Sand Spngs. or Sand Sprngs.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Sand Springs. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Sand Springs.

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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Sand Springs is primarily located in Tulsa County. A portion of Sand Springs extends into Osage 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 Sand Springs. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sand Springs:

  • Tulsa County     (The home county of Sand Springs)
  • Creek County
  • Okmulgee County
  • Osage County
  • Pawnee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sand Springs, with the one closest to Sand Springs listed first.
    • Leroy
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Shady Grove
      (10 miles [16.1 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
    • Mule Barn
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Mule Barn is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mule Barn
    • Oak Grove
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Westport
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Westport is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
    • Terlton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Cleveland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jennings
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Hallett
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Rogers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sand Springs, with the one closest to Sand Springs listed first.
    • Catoosa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Limestone
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Limestone is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
    • Valley Park
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Valley Park is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Park
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 56 people
    • Verdigris
      (26 miles [41.8 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
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Gregory
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Gregory is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
    • Oologah
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Wagoner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sand Springs, with the one closest to Sand Springs listed first.
    • New Tulsa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • New Tulsa is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Tulsa
    • Fair Oaks
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Fair Oaks is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Oaks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 100 people
    • Stonebluff
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Coweta
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Washington County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sand Springs, with the one closest to Sand Springs listed first.
    • Vera
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Vera is located in Washington County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vera
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 244 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vera <1>
    • Ramona
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Sand Springs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sand Springs.

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 Sand Springs - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sand Springs, with the one closest to Sand Springs 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.<3>

While we didn't find Sand Springs in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sand Springs.

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

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

Newspapers Published in Sand Springs ...

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 219 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sand Springs.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sand Springs, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sand Springs.

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 Sand Springs:

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>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 Sand Springs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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- Sand Springs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.