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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 Warren (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 Warren. 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 doctors 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.

Warren is located in Jackson 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 Jackson County: Greer, Harmon, Kiowa, Tillman, Hardeman (TX) & Wilbarger (TX).

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

  • Jackson County     (The home county of Warren)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warren, with the one closest to Warren listed first.
    • Friendship
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Friendship is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friendship
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 22 people
    • Blair
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Altus
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Altus is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altus
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,162 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Altus <1>
    • Martha
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Headrick
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Humphreys
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Humphreys is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humphreys
    • Victory
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Victory is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory
    • Olustee
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Elmer
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Hess
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Hess is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hess
    • Duke
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • East Duke
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • East Duke is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Duke
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 383 people
  • Comanche County
    • Indiahoma
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Greer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warren, with the one closest to Warren listed first.
    • Hester
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Hester is located in Greer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hester
    • Granite
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Mangum
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Willow
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Bloomington
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Bloomington is located in Greer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
    • Reed
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Reed is located in Greer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed
  • Kiowa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warren, with the one closest to Warren listed first.
    • Lugert ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Lugert is located in Kiowa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lugert
    • Roosevelt
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Lone Wolf
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Mountain Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Snyder
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Hobart
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Cooperton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Cooperton is located in Kiowa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooperton
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 15 people
    • Gotebo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Tillman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warren, with the one closest to Warren listed first.
    • Tipton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Manitou
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Frederick
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Washita County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Warren, with the one closest to Warren listed first.
    • Sentinel
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Rocky
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Warren ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Warren.

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

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

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

  • Warren Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Navajo Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Centerville Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Blair Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Hester Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Martha Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Restlawn Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Altus City Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Headrick Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Roosevelt Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Quartz Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Frazier Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (65 more) ...
    • Rogers Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Granite Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Lutheran Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)

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 Warren in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Warren.

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

  • Martha
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Altus
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Altus is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altus
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 18,162 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Altus <1>
  • Victory
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Victory is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory
  • Mangum
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Duke
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Hess
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Hess is located in Jackson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hess
  • Rainy ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Rainy is located in Washita County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rainy
  • Bloomington
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Bloomington is located in Greer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bloomington
  • Reed
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Reed is located in Greer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reed

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

Newspapers Published in Warren ...

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 124 newspapers that have been published in the area around Warren.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Warren, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Warren.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Warren:

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 Warren, 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- Warren) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.