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Introduction ...

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

We've added Goumaz to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Goumaz, 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 Goumaz (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 Goumaz. 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 hospitals 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.

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

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lassen County: Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama & Washoe (NV).

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

  • Lassen County     (The home county of Goumaz)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goumaz, with the one closest to Goumaz listed first.
    • Pine Town
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Town
      • Pine Town is located in Lassen County
    • Westwood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Susanville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Peninsula Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peninsula Village
      • Peninsula Village is located in Lassen County
    • Leavitt
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leavitt
      • Leavitt is located in Lassen County
    • Janesville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Belfast
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
      • Belfast is located in Lassen County
    • Standish
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Litchfield
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Antelope ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Antelope. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
      • Antelope is located in Lassen County
    • Karlo ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Karlo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Karlo
      • Karlo is located in Lassen County
      • Former name for Karlo:
      • Secret
    • Horse Lake ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horse Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horse Lake
      • Horse Lake is located in Lassen County
    • Milford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Plumas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Goumaz, with the one closest to Goumaz listed first.
    • Hamilton Branch
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • East Shore
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Shore
      • East Shore is located in Plumas County
    • Lake Almanor Peninsula
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Peninsula Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake Almanor Country Club
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lake Almanor Country Club have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Almanor Country Club
      • Lake Almanor Country Club is located in Plumas County
    • Greenville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Almanor
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Almanor have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Almanor
      • Almanor is located in Plumas County
    • Canyondam
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Chester
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Lake Almanor West
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Almanor West
      • Lake Almanor West is located in Plumas County
      • Lake Almanor West has also been known as:
      • Almanor West
    • Prattville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Crescent Mills
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Moccasin
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moccasin
      • Moccasin is located in Plumas County

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

Newspapers Published in Goumaz ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Goumaz.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Goumaz, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Goumaz.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Goumaz:

Cemeteries Near Goumaz ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goumaz.

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

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

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

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

  • Susanville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Greenville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Janesville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Prattville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Crescent Mills
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Taylorsville
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Genesee ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Genesee have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genesee
    • Genesee is located in Plumas County
  • Longville
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longville
    • Longville is located in Plumas County
  • Shumway
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shumway have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shumway
    • Shumway is located in Lassen County

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

The official website for Lassen County: www.co.lassen.ca.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.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 Goumaz, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Goumaz) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Goumaz. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4138, Longitude: -120.8625       In this case, the coordinates for Goumaz 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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