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 Chunky (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 Chunky. 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 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.
Chunky is located in Potter 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 Potter County: Armstrong, Carson, Deaf Smith, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham & Randall.
Below are the counties that are near Chunky. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Chunky:
- Potter County (The home county of Chunky)
- The following are listed by their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Bishop Hills
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bishop Hills is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Hills
- Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
- Amarillo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Soncy
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Bushland
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Armstrong County
- The following are listed by their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Washburn
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Washburn is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
- Fairview
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Fairview is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
- Carson County
- Panhandle
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Hutchinson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Fritch
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Sanford
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Oil City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Oil City is located in Hutchinson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil City
- Moore County
- Masterson
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Masterson is located in Moore County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masterson
- Oldham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Wildorado
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Tascosa ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Tascosa is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tascosa
- Boys' Ranch
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Boys' Ranch is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boys' Ranch
- Randall County
- The following are listed by their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Lake Tanglewood
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Lake Tanglewood is located in Randall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Tanglewood
- Population from the 2020 Census: 898 people
- Palisades
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Palisades is located in Randall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
- Population from the 2020 Census: 367 people
- Timbercreek Canyon
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Timbercreek Canyon is located in Randall County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Timbercreek Canyon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 479 people
- Canyon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Chunky, see our County-by-County Page for Chunky.
Cemeteries Near Chunky ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chunky.
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 Chunky - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Chunky covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Townsend Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Arnot Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Memorial Park Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Memorial Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- St. Francis Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Llano Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Llano Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Llano Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Amarillo.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #171790 <2>
- Liberty Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Washburn Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Memory Gardens
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Westlawn Memorial Park
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Tascosa Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Muncy Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Continue List (7 more) ...
- Boot Hill Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
- Panhandle Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 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 Chunky in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Chunky.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Chunky, with the one closest to Chunky listed first.
- Amarillo
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Pullman
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pullman is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pullman
- Ady
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Ady is located in Potter County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ady
- Washburn
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Washburn is located in Armstrong County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washburn
- Tascosa ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Tascosa is located in Oldham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tascosa
- Panhandle
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Canyon
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Chunky. See our List of 1890's Communities around Chunky.
Newspapers Published in Chunky ...
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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chunky.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chunky, 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 Chunky.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Chunky:
- Websites specific to Texas
- Pages specific to Potter County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Armstrong County
- Carson County
- Hutchinson County
- Moore County
- Oldham County
- Randall County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
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 Chunky, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Chunky) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |