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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 Everett (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 Everett. 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.

Everett is located in Oldham 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 Oldham County: Quay (NM), Deaf Smith, Hartley, Moore & Potter.

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

  • Oldham County     (The home county of Everett)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everett, with the one closest to Everett listed first.
    • Vega
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Wildorado
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Adrian
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Tascosa ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Tascosa is located in Oldham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tascosa
    • Boys' Ranch
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Boys' Ranch is located in Oldham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boys' Ranch
    • Boise ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Boise is located in Oldham County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boise
  • Deaf Smith County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everett, with the one closest to Everett listed first.
    • Dawn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • La Plata ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • La Plata is located in Deaf Smith County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Plata
    • Hereford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Potter County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everett, with the one closest to Everett listed first.
    • Bushland
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Bishop Hills
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Bishop Hills is located in Potter County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bishop Hills
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 173 people
    • Soncy
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Amarillo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Randall County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Everett, with the one closest to Everett listed first.
    • Umbarger
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Canyon
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Everett ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Everett.

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

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

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

  • Memorial Park Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Memorial Park Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Memorial Park Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<2> to the west of Vega.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #957479 <3>
  • Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Palo Duro Wildorado Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Muncy Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Townsend Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Tascosa Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Boot Hill Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Cal Farley's Boys Ranch Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • St. Mary Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Old La Plata Grave
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Arnot Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Rest Lawn Memorial Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rest Lawn Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rest Lawn Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Hereford.
    • The Rest Lawn Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Rest Lawn Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #6324 <3>
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Memory Gardens
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • St. Anthony's Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • West Park Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 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.<4>

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

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

  • Tascosa ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Tascosa is located in Oldham County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tascosa
  • Ady
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Ady is located in Potter County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ady
  • Dawn
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • La Plata ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • La Plata is located in Deaf Smith County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Plata
  • Canyon
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Amarillo
    (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 Everett. See our List of 1890's Communities around Everett.

Newspapers Published in Everett ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Everett.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Everett, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Everett.

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 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 Everett:

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>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- Everett) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Everett, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.