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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 Oak Grove (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 Oak Grove. 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 Oak Grove ...

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.

Another variation: Oakgrove.

  • A typical abbreviation for Oak Grove: Oak Grv.

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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Oak Grove is located in Butte 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 Butte County: Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Sutter, Tehama & Yuba.

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

  • Butte County     (The home county of Oak Grove)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Grove, with the one closest to Oak Grove listed first.
    • East Biggs
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Biggs
      • East Biggs is located in Butte County
    • Palermo
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Lorraine ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lorraine have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lorraine
      • Lorraine is located in Butte County
    • Robinsons Corner
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinsons Corner
      • Robinsons Corner is located in Butte County
    • Peachton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peachton
      • Peachton is located in Butte County
    • Thermalito
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thermalito
      • Thermalito is located in Butte County
    • South Oroville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Oroville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Oroville
      • South Oroville is located in Butte County
    • Bigg's
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Lynchburg ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lynchburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynchburg
      • Lynchburg is located in Butte County
    • Oroville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Oroville Junction
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oroville Junction
      • Oroville Junction is located in Butte County
    • Gridley
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Colusa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Grove, with the one closest to Oak Grove listed first.
    • Princeton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Colusa Rancheria
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colusa Rancheria
      • Colusa Rancheria is located in Colusa County
    • Colusa
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Grimes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Glenn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Grove, with the one closest to Oak Grove listed first.
    • Afton
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Afton
      • Afton is located in Glenn County
    • Butte City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Glenn
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Hamilton City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Nevada County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Grove, with the one closest to Oak Grove listed first.
    • Bridgeport
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
      • Bridgeport is located in Nevada County
    • Birchville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchville
      • Birchville is located in Nevada County
    • Lake Wildwood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wildwood
      • Lake Wildwood is located in Nevada County
    • North San Juan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Penn Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Rough and Ready
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bitney Corner
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitney Corner
      • Bitney Corner is located in Nevada County
    • Newtown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newtown
      • Newtown is located in Nevada County
  • Santa Cruz County
  • Sutter County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Grove, with the one closest to Oak Grove listed first.
    • Live Oak
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Live Oak
      • Live Oak is located in Sutter County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,048 people
    • Pennington
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Pennington is located in Sutter County
    • Sutter
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Tierra Buena
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tierra Buena have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Buena
      • Tierra Buena is located in Sutter County
    • Yuba City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • South Yuba City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Yuba City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Yuba City
      • South Yuba City is located in Sutter County
    • Bogue
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogue
      • Bogue is located in Sutter County
    • Tarke
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tarke
      • Tarke is located in Sutter County
    • Meridian
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Yuba County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Oak Grove, with the one closest to Oak Grove listed first.
    • Iowa City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iowa City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iowa City
      • Iowa City is located in Yuba County
    • Loma Rica
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Rica
      • Loma Rica is located in Yuba County
    • Rackerby
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Browns Valley
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Brownsville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Oregon House
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Binney Junction
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Binney Junction
      • Binney Junction is located in Yuba County
    • Dantoni
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dantoni
      • Dantoni is located in Yuba County
    • Marysville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Challenge
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Linda
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Dobbins
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Oak Grove ...

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 85 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oak Grove.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oak Grove, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oak Grove.

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 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 Oak Grove:

Cemeteries Near Oak Grove ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oak Grove.

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

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

  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Hamilton Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hamilton Cemetery
  • Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Park
  • Oroville Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oroville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oroville Cemetery
  • Gridley - Biggs Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
  • Honcut Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Thompson Flat Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thompson Flat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thompson Flat Cemetery
  • Bangor Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bangor Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Bangor.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bangor Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2220275 <5>
  • Live Oak Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Live Oak Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Live Oak Cemetery
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Oregon City Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Nelson Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (44 more) ...
    • Upham Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Upham Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upham Cemetery
    • North Butte Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the North Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Butte Cemetery
    • Mound Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)

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.<6>

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

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

  • Palermo
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Bigg's
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Gridley
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Oroville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Honcut
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Wyandotte
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wyandotte have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyandotte
    • Wyandotte is located in Butte County
  • Honcut
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Honcut have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honcut
    • Honcut is located in Yuba County
  • Live Oak
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Live Oak
    • Live Oak is located in Sutter County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,048 people
  • Bangor
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Ramirez
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ramirez have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ramirez
    • Ramirez is located in Yuba County
  • Hurleton
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hurleton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurleton
    • Hurleton is located in Butte County
  • Nelson
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Pennington
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Pennington is located in Sutter County
    • Lomo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lomo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lomo
      • Lomo is located in Sutter County
    • Enterprise ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enterprise have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
      • Enterprise is located in Butte County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Oak Grove. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Butte County: www.buttecounty.net/

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

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 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>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.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Oak Grove) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oak Grove. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4271, Longitude: -121.6052       In this case, the coordinates for Oak Grove have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>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 Oak Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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