Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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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 Stiles (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 Stiles. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Stiles is historic, it would have been located within present day Reagan 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 Reagan County: Crockett, Irion, Midland, Sterling & Upton.

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

• Reagan County     (The home county of Stiles)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Stiles, with the one closest to Stiles listed first.
  • Best ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Best
    • Best is located in Reagan County
  • Texon ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Texon have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Texon
    • Texon is located in Reagan County
  • Big Lake
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Lake
    • Big Lake is located in Reagan County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,348 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Lake <3>
• Irion County
  • Barnhart
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnhart
    • Barnhart is located in Irion County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Barnhart <3>
• Upton County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Stiles, with the one closest to Stiles listed first.
  • Midkiff
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midkiff have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midkiff
    • Midkiff is located in Upton County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Midkiff <3>
  • Rankin
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rankin
    • Rankin is located in Upton County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 841 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rankin <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Stiles ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stiles.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stiles, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stiles.

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 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 Stiles:

• Websites specific to Texas
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //www.tsl.texas.gov/

• Pages specific to Reagan County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Irion County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Upton County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Texas
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Texas
  • Cemeteries of Reagan County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Texas
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Texas

Cemeteries Near Stiles ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stiles.

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 Stiles covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Stiles Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stiles Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stiles Cemetery
• Reagan View Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reagan View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reagan View Cemetery
• Glen Rest Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Glen Rest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glen Rest Cemetery
• Rankin Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rankin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rankin Cemetery
• Edwards Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Edwards Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Edwards Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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