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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Springers Ranch. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Springers Ranch to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Springers Ranch, please Contact Us.

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 Springers Ranch (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 Springers Ranch. 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 Springers Ranch ...

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 have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Springers Ranch: Springers Rnch.
  • While the name of this community is Springers Ranch, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Springers Ranch may originally have been Springer's Ranch.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Springers Ranch might be written as Springer Ranch.

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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Springers Ranch is historic, it would have been located within present day Hemphill County.

To see how the shape of Texas' counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Hemphill County: Ellis (OK), Roger Mills (OK), Lipscomb, Roberts & Wheeler.

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

  • Hemphill County     (The home county of Springers Ranch)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springers Ranch, with the one closest to Springers Ranch listed first.
    • Clear Creek
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Glazier
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glazier
      • Glazier is located in Hemphill County
    • Canadian
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Mendota ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mendota have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendota
      • Mendota is located in Hemphill County
  • Lipscomb County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springers Ranch, with the one closest to Springers Ranch listed first.
    • Higgins
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Locust Grove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Locust Grove
      • Locust Grove is located in Lipscomb County
    • Lipscomb
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lipscomb have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lipscomb
      • Lipscomb is located in Lipscomb County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lipscomb <3>
  • Roberts County
    • Miami
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miami have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
      • Miami is located in Roberts County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 521 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <3>
  • Wheeler County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springers Ranch, with the one closest to Springers Ranch listed first.
    • Zybach ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zybach
      • Zybach is located in Wheeler County
    • Allison
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Briscoe
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Briscoe have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briscoe
      • Briscoe is located in Wheeler County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Briscoe <3>
    • Mobeetie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Wheeler
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Ellis County (OK)
    • Arnett
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnett
      • Arnett is located in Ellis County (OK)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 478 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arnett <3>
  • Roger Mills County (OK)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Springers Ranch, with the one closest to Springers Ranch listed first.
    • Durham
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Reydon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reydon have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reydon
      • Reydon is located in Roger Mills County (OK)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 205 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reydon <3>
    • Crawford
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Roll
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roll
      • Roll is located in Roger Mills County (OK)

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

Newspapers Published in Springers Ranch ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Springers Ranch.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Springers Ranch, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Springers Ranch.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Springers Ranch:

Cemeteries Near Springers Ranch ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Springers Ranch.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Prairie Dell Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Dell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Dell Cemetery
  • Edith Ford Memorial Cemeteries
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Cataline Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cataline Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cataline Cemetery
  • Lone Tree Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Tree Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Tree Cemetery
  • Washita Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Washita Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Washita Cemetery
  • Union Chapel Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
  • Zybach Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zybach Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zybach Cemetery
  • Lindley Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lindley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lindley Cemetery
  • Belleview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Belleview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Belleview Cemetery
  • Higgins Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Allmon Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Allmon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Allmon Cemetery
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Emmons Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Emmons Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emmons Cemetery
    • Sunrise Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunrise Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunrise Cemetery
    • Grand Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grand Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand Cemetery

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.

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

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

  • Glazier
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glazier
    • Glazier is located in Hemphill County
  • Canadian
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Mendota ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mendota have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendota
    • Mendota is located in Hemphill County
  • Higgins
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Lipscomb
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lipscomb have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lipscomb
    • Lipscomb is located in Lipscomb County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lipscomb <3>
  • Mobeetie
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Miami
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Miami have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miami
    • Miami is located in Roberts County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 521 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miami <3>

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

The official website for State of Texas: https://texas.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Springers Ranch, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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).
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Springers Ranch) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Springers Ranch. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.8789, Longitude: -100.1885       In this case, the coordinates for Springers Ranch have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.




 

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