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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 Graham (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 Graham. 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 and hospitals 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.

Graham is located in Young County and is the County Seat.

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 Young County: Archer, Jack, Palo Pinto, Stephens & Throckmorton.

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

  • Young County     (The home county of Graham)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Graham, with the one closest to Graham listed first.
    • Bunger
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Bunger is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunger
    • South Bend
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Loving
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Newcastle
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Eliasville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Eliasville is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eliasville
    • Farmer
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Farmer is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmer
    • Murray
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Murray is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray
    • Proffitt
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Proffitt is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Proffitt
    • Olney
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Padgett
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Padgett is located in Young County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Padgett
  • Archer County
    • Anarene ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Anarene is located in Archer County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anarene
  • Jack County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Graham, with the one closest to Graham listed first.
    • Bryson
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Bob Town
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Bob Town is located in Jack County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bob Town
    • Jermyn
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jacksboro
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Antelope
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Antelope is located in Jack County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
    • Perrin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Palo Pinto County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Graham, with the one closest to Graham listed first.
    • Graford
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Palo Pinto
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Stephens County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Graham, with the one closest to Graham listed first.
    • Caddo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Breckenridge
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Throckmorton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Graham, with the one closest to Graham listed first.
    • Elbert
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Elbert is located in Throckmorton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elbert
    • Woodson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Graham ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Graham.

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

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

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

  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Farmer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Gooseneck Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Center Ridge Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Tonk Valley Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Wray Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Brooks Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Medlan Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Indian Mound Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • South Bend Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Mountain Home Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Ming Bend Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (61 more) ...
    • Rock Creek Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Belknap Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Loving Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)

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.<2>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Graham had a population of 667 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Graham had a population of 8,568 people.

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

  • South Bend
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Bryson
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Eliasville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Eliasville is located in Young County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eliasville
  • Farmer
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Farmer is located in Young County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Farmer
  • Murray
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Murray is located in Young County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murray
  • Markley
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Markley is located in Young County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Markley
  • Olney
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jacksboro
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Oran
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Oran is located in Palo Pinto County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oran
  • Antelope
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Antelope is located in Jack County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
  • Caddo
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Palo Pinto
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Spring Creek
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Spring Creek is located in Throckmorton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Creek

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Graham ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Graham.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Graham. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Graham and those printed in the larger area surrounding Graham.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Graham.

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 Graham:

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>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 Graham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Graham) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.