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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 Tullahassee (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 Tullahassee. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Tullahassee is located in Wagoner 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 Wagoner County: Cherokee, Mayes, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Rogers & Tulsa.

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

  • Wagoner County     (The home county of Tullahassee)
  • Cherokee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tullahassee, with the one closest to Tullahassee listed first.
    • Hulbert
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Lost City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Shady Grove
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Shady Grove is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
    • Woodall
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Woodall is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodall
    • Zeb
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Zeb is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zeb
    • Gideon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Peggs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Keys
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Keys is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keys
    • Park Hill
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Pettit
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Pettit is located in Cherokee County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pettit
    • Tahlequah
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Tsa La Gi Indian Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Mayes County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tullahassee, with the one closest to Tullahassee listed first.
    • Mazie
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Cedar Crest
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Pin Oaks Acres
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Pin Oaks Acres is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pin Oaks Acres
    • Murphy
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Murphy is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murphy
    • Chouteau
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Ballou
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Iron Post
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Iron Post is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Post
    • Sams Corner
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Locust Grove
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Sportsmen Acres
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Sportsmen Acres is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sportsmen Acres
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 310 people
    • Snake Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Snake Creek is located in Mayes County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Snake Creek
  • McIntosh County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tullahassee, with the one closest to Tullahassee listed first.
    • Rentiesville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Shady Grove
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Shady Grove is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Grove
    • Checotah
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Hitchita
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Richardsville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Duchess Landing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Duchess Landing is located in McIntosh County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duchess Landing
    • Onapa
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Muskogee County
  • Okmulgee County
  • Rogers County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tullahassee, with the one closest to Tullahassee listed first.
    • Inola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Gregory
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Gregory is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
    • Catoosa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Tiawah
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Tiawah is located in Rogers County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tiawah
  • Sequoyah County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tullahassee, with the one closest to Tullahassee listed first.
    • Paradise Hill
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Paradise Hill is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hill
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 80 people
    • Gore
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Gore is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 946 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gore <1>
    • Redbird Smith
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Redbird Smith is located in Sequoyah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redbird Smith
  • Tulsa County

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

Cemeteries Near Tullahassee ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tullahassee.

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

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

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

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

  • Keith
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Keith is located in Rogers County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keith
  • Martin
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Martin is located in Muskogee County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
  • Morris
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Tullahassee ...

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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tullahassee.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Tullahassee. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Tullahassee and those printed in the larger area surrounding Tullahassee.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4> of Tullahassee.

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 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 Tullahassee:

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 Tullahassee, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tullahassee) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.