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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 Dads Corner (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 Dads Corner. 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.

Name Variations for Dads Corner ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Dads Corner: Dads Cor. (or less commonly used: Dads Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Dads Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Dads Corner may originally have been Dad's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Dads Corner might be written as Dad Corner.

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Dads Corner. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Dads Corner.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 and hospitals 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.

Dads Corner is located in Archer 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 Archer County: Baylor, Clay, Jack, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger & Young.

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

  • Archer County     (The home county of Dads Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dads Corner, with the one closest to Dads Corner listed first.
    • Holliday
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Lakeside City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Lakeside City is located in Archer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,008 people
    • Archer City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Dundee
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Dundee is located in Archer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee
    • Scotland
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Anarene ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Anarene is located in Archer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anarene
    • Windthorst
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Megargel
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Baylor County
    • Round Timber ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Round Timber is located in Baylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Timber
  • Clay County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dads Corner, with the one closest to Dads Corner listed first.
    • Jolly
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jolly is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
    • Dean
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Dean is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dean
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 469 people
    • Bluegrove
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Thornberry
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Thornberry is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornberry
    • Henrietta
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Joy
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Joy is located in Clay County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joy
  • Jack County
    • Antelope
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Antelope is located in Jack County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
  • Wichita County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dads Corner, with the one closest to Dads Corner listed first.
    • Kamay
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Iowa Park
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant Valley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Pleasant Valley is located in Wichita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 338 people
    • Wichita Falls
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Cashion Community
      (22 miles [35.4 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
    • Clara
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Clara is located in Wichita County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clara
    • Electra
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Burkburnett
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Wilbarger County
  • Young County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dads Corner, with the one closest to Dads Corner listed first.
    • Olney
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Farmer
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Farmer is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmer

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

Cemeteries Near Dads Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dads Corner.

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 Dads Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Stewart Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Holliday Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holliday Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Holliday Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Holliday.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #230113 <3>
  • Bowman Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Archer City Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Rosemont Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Crestview Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Rest Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Dundee Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Lake Creek Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Crestview Memorial Park
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • St. Boniface Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (29 more) ...
    • Sacred Heart Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Riverside Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Highland Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • 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 <3>

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.<4>

While we didn't find Dads Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dads Corner.

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

  • Holliday
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Archer City
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Dundee
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Dundee is located in Archer County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dundee
  • Iowa Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Wichita Falls
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Jolly
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jolly is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jolly
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 164 people
  • Olney
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Bluegrove
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Antelope
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Antelope is located in Jack County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
  • Thornberry
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Thornberry is located in Clay County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thornberry
  • Farmer
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Farmer is located in Young County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmer
  • Henrietta
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Dads Corner ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dads Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dads Corner, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dads Corner.

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 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 Dads Corner:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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 Dads Corner, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dads Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.