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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 Stith (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 Stith. 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.

Stith is located in Jones 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 Jones County: Callahan, Fisher, Haskell, Nolan, Shackelford, Stonewall & Taylor.

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

  • Jones County     (The home county of Stith)
  • Callahan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stith, with the one closest to Stith listed first.
    • Eula
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Clyde
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Clyde is located in Callahan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,881 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clyde <1>
    • Denton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Fisher County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stith, with the one closest to Stith listed first.
    • Sylvester
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • McCaulley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • McCaulley is located in Fisher County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCaulley
    • Hamlin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Royston
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Roby
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Haskell County
  • Nolan County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stith, with the one closest to Stith listed first.
    • Nolan
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sweetwater
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Avenger Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Avenger Village is located in Nolan County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenger Village
  • Taylor County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stith, with the one closest to Stith listed first.
    • Merkel
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Tye
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Tye is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tye
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,341 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tye <1>
    • Mount Pleasant
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Mount Pleasant is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Pleasant
    • Trent
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Impact
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Impact is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Impact
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 31 people
    • Abilene
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Hamby
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Buffalo Gap
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Potosi
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Tuscola
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Ovalo
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Guion
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Guion is located in Taylor County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion
    • Lawn
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Stith ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stith.

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

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

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

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 Stith in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Stith.

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

  • Merkel
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Trent
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Abilene
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Anson
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Phantom Hill
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Phantom Hill is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phantom Hill
  • Eskota
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Eskota is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eskota
  • Buffalo Gap
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Elmdale
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Elmdale is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmdale
  • Neinda
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Neinda is located in Jones County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neinda
  • Sweetwater
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Clyde
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Clyde is located in Callahan County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clyde
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,881 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Clyde <1>
  • Hitson
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Hitson is located in Fisher County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hitson
  • Roby
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Guion
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Guion is located in Taylor County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Guion

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

Newspapers Published in Stith ...

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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stith.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stith, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stith.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Stith:

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