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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 Bunker Hill (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 Bunker Hill. 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.

Bunker Hill is located in Lamar 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 Lamar County: Bryan (OK), Choctaw (OK), Delta, Fannin & Red River.

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

  • Lamar County     (The home county of Bunker Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Belk
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Belk is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belk
    • Direct
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Direct is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Direct
    • Garretts Bluff
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Garretts Bluff is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garretts Bluff
    • Razor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Razor is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Razor
    • Sumner
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Caviness
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Caviness is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caviness
    • Chicota
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Hopewell
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Hopewell is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hopewell
    • Camp Maxey ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Camp Maxey is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Maxey
    • Midcity
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Midcity is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midcity
      • Midcity has also been known as:
      • Trout Spur
      • Trout
    • Powderly
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Brookston
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Hinckley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Hinckley is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinckley
  • Delta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Ben Franklin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Pecan Gap
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Enloe
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Lake Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Fannin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Allen Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Allen Point is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen Point
    • Telephone
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Allens Chapel
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Allens Chapel is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allens Chapel
    • Carson
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Carson is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson
    • Honey Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Windom
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Ivanhoe
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Dial
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Dial is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dial
    • Dodd City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sowells Bluff
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Sowells Bluff is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sowells Bluff
    • Bug Tussle ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Bug Tussle is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bug Tussle
    • Ridings
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Ridings is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridings
    • Boyd
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Boyd is located in Fannin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyd
  • Red River County
    • Kanawha
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Kanawha is located in Red River County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawha
  • Atoka County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Lone Pine
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Lone Pine is located in Atoka County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
    • Farris
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Bryan County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Wade
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Wade is located in Bryan County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wade
    • Bennington
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Albany
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Bokchito
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Yuba
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Yuba is located in Bryan County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yuba
    • Matoy
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Matoy is located in Bryan County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matoy
    • Yarnaby
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Yarnaby is located in Bryan County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yarnaby
  • Choctaw County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Soper
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Soper is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soper
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 253 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Soper <1>
    • Boswell
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Boswell is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boswell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 680 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Boswell <1>
    • Grant
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Hugo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Hugo is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hugo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,070 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hugo <1>
    • Frogville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Frogville is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frogville
    • Sawyer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Sawyer is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawyer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 327 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sawyer <1>
    • Virgil
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Virgil is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virgil
    • Apple
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Apple is located in Choctaw County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple
  • Pushmataha County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bunker Hill, with the one closest to Bunker Hill listed first.
    • Antlers
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Antlers is located in Pushmataha County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,300 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Antlers <1>
    • Belzoni
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Belzoni is located in Pushmataha County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belzoni
    • Ethel
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Ethel is located in Pushmataha County (OK)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ethel

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

Cemeteries Near Bunker Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bunker Hill.

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 Bunker Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Pyles Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Post Oak Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Community Hall Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Crowder Springs Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Little Vine Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Sumner Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Cottonwood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Cottonwood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Caviness Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • New Macedonia Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Reid Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Bluff Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (180 more) ...
    • Prairie Ridge Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Crowder Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Forest Chapel Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)

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

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

  • Direct
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Direct is located in Lamar County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Direct
  • Maxey
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Maxey is located in Lamar County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxey
  • Sumner
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Emberson
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Emberson is located in Lamar County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emberson
  • Monkstown
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Monkstown is located in Fannin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monkstown
  • Chicota
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Selfs
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Selfs is located in Fannin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selfs
  • Telephone
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Brookston
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Hinckley
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Hinckley is located in Lamar County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinckley
  • Powderly
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Petty
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • High
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • High is located in Lamar County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for High
    • Arthur City
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Paris
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Bunker Hill ...

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 80 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bunker Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bunker Hill, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bunker Hill.

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 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 Bunker Hill:

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 Bunker Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Bunker Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.