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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 Wilburton (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 Wilburton. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Wilburton is located in Latimer County and is the County Seat.

To see how the shape of Oklahoma's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Latimer County: Haskell, Le Flore, Pittsburg & Pushmataha.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Wilburton ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wilburton.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sacred Heart Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sacred Heart Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Masonic Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Masonic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Wilburton Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wilburton Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wilburton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Centerpoint Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Centerpoint Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Centerpoint Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lutie Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Riddle Family Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Patterson Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Patterson Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Patterson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Degnan Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Degnan Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Degnan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Damon Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Tea Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tea Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tea Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • High Bridge Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the High Bridge Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the High Bridge Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Mountain Station Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
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    • Baldwin Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Brown's Prairie Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brown's Prairie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Gowen Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gowen Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gowen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Wilburton ...

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 74 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wilburton.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Wilburton. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Wilburton and those printed in the larger area surrounding Wilburton.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5> of Wilburton.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Wilburton:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Wilburton. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Oklahoma: https://www.ok.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Wilburton and Panola. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<5>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- Wilburton) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Wilburton. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.9189, Longitude: -95.3097    
<6>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.




 

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