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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 Sapulpa (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 Sapulpa. 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 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.

Sapulpa is primarily located in Creek County and is the County Seat. A portion of Sapulpa extends into Tulsa 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 Creek County: Lincoln, Okfuskee, Okmulgee, Pawnee, Payne & Tulsa.

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

  • Creek County     (The home county of Sapulpa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sapulpa, with the one closest to Sapulpa listed first.
    • Kiefer
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Kellyville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Mounds
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Mannford
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Slick
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Lawrence Creek
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Lawrence Creek is located in Creek County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawrence Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
    • Bristow
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Pulaski ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Silver City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Silver City is located in Creek County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Depew
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Oilton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Shamrock
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Lincoln County
    • South Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • South Village is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Village
  • Muskogee County
  • Okfuskee County
  • Okmulgee County
  • Osage County
  • Pawnee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sapulpa, with the one closest to Sapulpa listed first.
    • Leroy
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Shady Grove
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Shady Grove is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2 people
    • Mule Barn
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Mule Barn is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mule Barn
    • Westport
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Westport is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
    • Oak Grove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Terlton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jennings
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cleveland
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hallett
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Payne County
    • North Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • North Village is located in Payne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Village
  • Rogers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sapulpa, with the one closest to Sapulpa listed first.
    • Catoosa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Valley Park
      (28 miles [45.1 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
    • Limestone
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Limestone is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Limestone
  • Tulsa County
  • Wagoner County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sapulpa, with the one closest to Sapulpa listed first.
    • New Tulsa
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • New Tulsa is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Tulsa
    • Stonebluff
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Coweta
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Fair Oaks
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Fair Oaks is located in Wagoner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Oaks
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 100 people
    • Choska ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Stones Corner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Redbird
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Sapulpa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sapulpa.

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

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

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Sapulpa ...

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 180 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sapulpa.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Sapulpa. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Sapulpa and those printed in the larger area surrounding Sapulpa.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Sapulpa.

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 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 Sapulpa:

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 Sapulpa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Sapulpa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.