Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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.

Harrisburg was originally named Harrisberry

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.

A Few Details for Harrisburg ...

While it's still very early in our research, we found that:

• Harrisburg was settled in 1905.

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 and doctors 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 Harrisburg is historic, it would have been located within present day Inyo 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 Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

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

• Inyo County     (The home county of Harrisburg)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Harrisburg, with the one closest to Harrisburg listed first.
  • Skidoo ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skidoo
    • Skidoo is located in Inyo County
  • Death Valley Charcoal Kilns ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Death Valley Charcoal Kilns
    • Death Valley Charcoal Kilns is located in Inyo County
  • Indian Village
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
    • Indian Village is located in Inyo County
  • Furnace Creek
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnace Creek
    • Furnace Creek is located in Inyo County
    • Furnace Creek has also been known as:
    • Furnace Creek Ranch
  • Harmony Borax Works ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Borax Works
    • Harmony Borax Works is located in Inyo County
    • Former name for Harmony Borax Works:
    • Greenland
  • Stovepipe Wells
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stovepipe Wells
    • Stovepipe Wells is located in Inyo County
  • Park Village
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Village
    • Park Village is located in Inyo County
  • Panamint City ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panamint City
    • Panamint City is located in Inyo County
  • Eagle Borax Works ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle Borax Works
    • Eagle Borax Works is located in Inyo County
  • Beatty Junction ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Junction
    • Beatty Junction is located in Inyo County
  • Lookout City ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lookout City
    • Lookout City is located in Inyo County
  • Panamint Springs
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panamint Springs
    • Panamint Springs is located in Inyo County

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

Newspapers Published in Harrisburg ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harrisburg.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harrisburg, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Harrisburg.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Harrisburg:

• Websites specific to California
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the California State Archives

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

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

Cemeteries Near Harrisburg ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harrisburg.

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

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

• Skidoo Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Skidoo Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Skidoo Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the north of Stovepipe Wells.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Skidoo Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254610 <5>
• Dayton Harris Gravesite
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Dayton Harris Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Dayton Harris Gravesite is located 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> to the north of Furnace Creek.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dayton Harris Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7931 <5>
• Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite is located in the vicinity of Beatty Junction
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8084 <5>
• Ballarat Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ballarat Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Ballarat.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ballarat Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161535 <5>
• Schwab Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Schwab Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Schwab Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the southwest of Furnace Creek.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schwab Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2336833 <5>
• Darwin Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Darwin Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Darwin.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Darwin Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2304271 <5>

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

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

• Panamint City ‑ Historic
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panamint City
  • Panamint City is located in Inyo County
• Darwin
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin
  • Darwin is located in Inyo County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Darwin <6>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Inyo County: www.inyocounty.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/