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Introduction ...

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

We've added Barkerville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Barkerville, 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 Barkerville (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 Barkerville. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Barkerville is historic, it would have been located within present day Lake 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 Lake County: Colusa, Glenn, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma & Yolo.

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

  • Lake County     (The home county of Barkerville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barkerville, with the one closest to Barkerville listed first.
    • Hough Springs
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hough Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hough Springs
      • Hough Springs is located in Lake County
    • Pole Garden ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pole Garden
      • Pole Garden is located in Lake County
    • Bartlett Springs
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bartlett Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartlett Springs
      • Bartlett Springs is located in Lake County
    • Clearlake Oaks
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Glenhaven
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Clearlake Park
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Lucerne
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Clearlake
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Nice
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Lower Lake
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Soda Bay
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Robinson Rancheria
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Rancheria
      • Robinson Rancheria is located in Lake County
  • Colusa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barkerville, with the one closest to Barkerville listed first.
    • Leesville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesville
      • Leesville is located in Colusa County
    • Lodoga
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodoga
      • Lodoga is located in Colusa County
    • Wilbur Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Stonyford
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Devils Elbow
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Devils Elbow have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Devils Elbow
      • Devils Elbow is located in Colusa County
    • Sites
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sites
      • Sites is located in Colusa County
    • Maxwell
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Williams
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Genevra
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Genevra have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genevra
      • Genevra is located in Colusa County
    • Arbuckle
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Colusa Rancheria
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colusa Rancheria
      • Colusa Rancheria is located in Colusa County
    • Colusa
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Mendocino County
    • Hemlock Ranch
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Hemlock Ranch. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemlock Ranch
      • Hemlock Ranch is located in Mendocino County
      • Hemlock Ranch has also been known as:
      • Hemlock
  • Sonoma County
    • Mercuryville ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mercuryville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercuryville
      • Mercuryville is located in Sonoma County
  • Yolo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Barkerville, with the one closest to Barkerville listed first.
    • Rumsey
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Guinda
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Barkerville ...

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 72 newspapers that have been published in the area around Barkerville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Barkerville, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Barkerville.

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 Barkerville:

Cemeteries Near Barkerville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Barkerville.

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

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

  • Cypress Hill Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Henry Alter Gravesite
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Henry Alter Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Henry Alter Gravesite
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2507467 <6>
  • Stonyford Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stonyford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stonyford Cemetery
  • Pryor Grave
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pryor Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pryor Grave
  • Sites Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Lower Lake Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Lower Lake Herndon - Copsey Pioneer Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lower Lake Herndon - Copsey Pioneer Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lower Lake Herndon - Copsey Pioneer Cemetery is located in Lower Lake.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lower Lake Herndon - Copsey Pioneer Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1127222 <6>
  • Upper Lake Rancheria Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Upper Lake Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Robinson Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Kelsay Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...

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

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

  • Hough Springs
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hough Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hough Springs
    • Hough Springs is located in Lake County
  • Leesville
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leesville
    • Leesville is located in Colusa County
  • Bartlett Springs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bartlett Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bartlett Springs
    • Bartlett Springs is located in Lake County
  • Stonyford
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Lower Lake
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Sites
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sites
    • Sites is located in Colusa County
  • Lurline ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lurline have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lurline
    • Lurline is located in Colusa County
  • Upper Lake
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Kelseyville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Lakeport
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Maxwell
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Williams
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Highland Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Highland Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland Springs
      • Highland Springs is located in Lake County
    • Glenbrook
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenbrook
      • Glenbrook is located in Lake County
    • Knoxville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knoxville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knoxville
      • Knoxville is located in Napa County

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

The official website for Lake County: www.co.lake.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 Barkerville, 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Barkerville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Barkerville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.1543, Longitude: -122.5625       In this case, the coordinates for Barkerville 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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