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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 Apex (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 Apex. 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 hospitals and 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.

Apex is located in Clark County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Clark County: Mohave (AZ), Inyo (CA), San Bernardino (CA), Lincoln & Nye.

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

  • Clark County     (The home county of Apex)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Apex, with the one closest to Apex listed first.
    • Dry Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dry Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Lake
      • Dry Lake is located in Clark County
    • Sunrise Manor
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Manor have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Manor
      • Sunrise Manor is located in Clark County
    • North Las Vegas
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Las Vegas
      • North Las Vegas is located in Clark County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 260,098 people
    • Hoover City ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hoover City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover City
      • Hoover City is located in Clark County
    • Las Vegas
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Winchester
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
      • Winchester is located in Clark County
    • Paradise
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
      • Paradise is located in Clark County
    • Whitney
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitney have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
      • Whitney is located in Clark County
    • Henderson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Victory Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Victory Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Village
      • Victory Village is located in Clark County
    • Junction City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Junction City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction City
      • Junction City is located in Clark County
    • Bracken ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bracken have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bracken
      • Bracken is located in Clark County
    • Boulder Junction
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boulder Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Junction
      • Boulder Junction is located in Clark County

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

Newspapers Published in Apex ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Apex.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Apex, 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 Apex.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Apex:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

Cemeteries Near Apex ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Apex.

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

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

  • Woodlawn Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Las Vegas Paiute Tribe Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Palm Desert Downtown Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
    • The Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Bunkers Eden Vale Cemetery
    • Eden Vale Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1969734 <4>
  • Palm Memorial Park Northwest
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Bunkers Memory Gardens Memorial Park
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Davis Memorial Park
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Palm Mortuary Memorial Park
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Palm Eastern Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Palm Eastern Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
    • The Palm Eastern Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Palm Memorial Park
    • Palm Valley View Memorial Park
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palm Eastern Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #177895 <4>
  • Hoover Dam Gravesite
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Barbara G. Edwards 9-11 Memorial
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Boulder City Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Clark Memorial
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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

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

The official website for Clark County: www.accessclarkcounty.com/

The official website for State of Nevada: nv.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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 from Point A (ie- Apex) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Apex. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.3291, Longitude: -114.9278       In this case, the coordinates for Apex have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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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