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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 Bacon (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 Bacon. 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.

Bacon is located in Wichita County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Wichita County: Cotton (OK), Tillman (OK), Archer, Clay & Wilbarger.

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

  • Wichita County     (The home county of Bacon)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bacon, with the one closest to Bacon listed first.
    • Cashion Community
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Cashion Community is located in Wichita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cashion Community
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 360 people
    • Pleasant Valley
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Pleasant Valley is located in Wichita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 338 people
    • Burkburnett
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Wichita Falls
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Iowa Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Clara
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Clara is located in Wichita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clara
    • Kamay
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Electra
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Archer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bacon, with the one closest to Bacon listed first.
    • Lakeside City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Lakeside City is located in Archer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,008 people
    • Holliday
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Scotland
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Dundee
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Dundee is located in Archer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee
    • Archer City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Windthorst
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Clay County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bacon, with the one closest to Bacon listed first.
    • Thornberry
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Thornberry is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornberry
    • Dean
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Dean is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dean
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 469 people
    • Jolly
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jolly is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
    • Petrolia
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Byers
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Henrietta
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Bluegrove
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Wilbarger County
  • Comanche County (OK)
    • Chattanooga
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Cotton County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bacon, with the one closest to Bacon listed first.
    • Randlett
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Devol
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Devol is located in Cotton County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devol
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 135 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Devol <1>
    • Taylor
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Taylor is located in Cotton County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
    • Cookietown
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Cookietown is located in Cotton County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cookietown
    • Temple
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Temple is located in Cotton County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Temple
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 915 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Temple <1>
    • Walters
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Walters is located in Cotton County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walters
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,357 people
      • Former name for Walters:
      • Walter
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Walters <1>
  • Jefferson County (OK)
    • Hastings
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Hastings is located in Jefferson County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hastings
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 131 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hastings <1>
  • Tillman County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bacon, with the one closest to Bacon listed first.
    • Grandfield
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Loveland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hollister
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Bacon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bacon.

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

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

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

  • Highland Memorial Gardens
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Evart Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • East Lawn Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Burkburnett Memorial Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Highland Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Highland Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Iowa Park.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4219 <2>
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Wilkerson Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Crestview Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Rest Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Rosemont Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (44 more) ...
    • Kempner Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • The Kempner Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kempner Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #4600 <2>
    • Crestview Memorial Park
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Bowman Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)

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

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

  • Iowa Park
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Wichita Falls
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Thornberry
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Thornberry is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornberry
  • Holliday
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Jolly
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jolly is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
  • Charlie
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Charlie is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charlie
  • Hurnville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Hurnville is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurnville
  • Henrietta
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Dundee
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Dundee is located in Archer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee
  • Archer City
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Bluegrove
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Harrold
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Bacon ...

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 70 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bacon.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bacon, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bacon.

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 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 Bacon:

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