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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 Star (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 Star. 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 hospitals and 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.

Star is located in Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg County: Atoka, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Latimer, McIntosh & Pushmataha.

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

  • Pittsburg County     (The home county of Star)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Star, with the one closest to Star listed first.
    • Arch
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Arch is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arch
    • Haileyville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Hartshorne
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Blanco
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Pittsburg
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Alderson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Krebs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Krebs is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Krebs
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,000 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Krebs <1>
    • Savanna
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Kiowa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Kiowa is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kiowa
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 676 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kiowa <1>
    • Chambers
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Chambers is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chambers
    • McAlester
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Bug Tussle
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Pittsburg County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Blocker
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Atoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Star, with the one closest to Star listed first.
    • Daisy
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Wardville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Latimer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Star, with the one closest to Star listed first.
    • Gowen
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Damon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Damon is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Damon
    • Degnan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Degnan is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Degnan
    • Wilburton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Panola
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Bengal
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bengal is located in Latimer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bengal
  • Le Flore County
    • Talihina
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Pushmataha County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Star, with the one closest to Star listed first.
    • Adel
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Adel is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adel
    • Stanley
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Stanley is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanley
    • Clayton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuskahoma
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Eubanks
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Eubanks is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eubanks
    • Snow
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Nashoba
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Finley
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Albion
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Moyers
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Nolia
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Nolia is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolia
    • Cloudy
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cloudy is located in Pushmataha County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloudy
    • Antlers
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Star ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Star.

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

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

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

  • Baker Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Sardis Church Grave
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Burris Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Nace Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Borden Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Smith Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Pulcher Spring Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Clay Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Sardis Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Bond Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Vivian Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (103 more) ...
    • Anderson Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Sulphur Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Stanley Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Star ...

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 58 newspapers that have been published in the area around Star.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Star, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Star.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Star:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Star) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.