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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 Slick (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 Slick. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Slick is located in Creek 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 Slick. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Slick:

  • Creek County     (The home county of Slick)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Slick, with the one closest to Slick listed first.
    • Bristow
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Pulaski ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Kellyville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Mounds
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Depew
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Kiefer
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Milfay
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Sapulpa
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Shamrock
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Drumright
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Lawrence Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Lawrence Creek is located in Creek County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawrence Creek
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 144 people
    • Mannford
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Silver City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Silver City is located in Creek County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Slick, with the one closest to Slick listed first.
    • Stroud
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • South Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • South Village is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Village
    • Avery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Davenport
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Kendrick
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Prague
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Okfuskee County
  • Okmulgee County
  • Pawnee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Slick, with the one closest to Slick listed first.
    • Shady Grove
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Shady Grove is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 2 people
    • Westport
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Westport is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westport
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 309 people
    • Leroy
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Mule Barn
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Mule Barn is located in Pawnee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mule Barn
    • Oak Grove
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Terlton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Payne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Slick, with the one closest to Slick listed first.
    • North Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • North Village is located in Payne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Village
    • Schlegel
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Cushing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Seminole County
    • Cromwell
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Tulsa County
  • Wagoner County

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

Cemeteries Near Slick ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Slick.

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

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

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

  • Falls Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Tabor Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Sewell Family Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Tuskegee Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Washburn Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Hanna Brown - Tiger Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Teddy Brown Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Wilson Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Mt. Harman Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Isparhecher Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Provens Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Lester Thomas Family Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (200 more) ...
    • Harjo Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Tuskegee Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Old Post Oak Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)

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.<2>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Slick ...

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 59 newspapers that have been published in the area around Slick.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Slick. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Slick and those printed in the larger area surrounding Slick.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Slick.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Slick:

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>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 Slick, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Slick) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.