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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Cabin Cove (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 Cabin Cove. 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 Cabin Cove ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Cabin Cove: Cabin Cv.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Cabin Cove is located in Tulare County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Cabin Cove)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabin Cove, with the one closest to Cabin Cove listed first.
    • Silver City
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Silver City is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Three Rivers
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Advance ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Advance is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
    • Kaweah
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Stony Creek Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Stony Creek Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Village
    • Milo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Milo is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
    • Hartland
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Hartland is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
    • Lemon Cove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Badger
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Camp Nelson
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Cedar Slope
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Cedar Slope is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Slope
    • Springville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabin Cove, with the one closest to Cabin Cove listed first.
    • Cedar Grove
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Kanawyers ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Kanawyers is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawyers
    • Pinehurst
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hume
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Miramonte
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Inyo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cabin Cove, with the one closest to Cabin Cove listed first.
    • Whitney Portal
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Whitney Portal is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney Portal
      • Former name for Whitney Portal:
      • Hunter Flat
      • Whitney Portal has also been known as:
      • Hunters Camp
    • Seven Pines ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Seven Pines is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Pines
    • Lone Pine Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Lone Pine Creek is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine Creek

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

Cemeteries Near Cabin Cove ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cabin Cove.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Cabin Cove - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cabin Cove covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Crabtree Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Woodlake Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Lindsay - Strathmore Public Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Tule River Indian Reservation Upper Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Three Rivers
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Advance ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Advance is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
  • Kaweah
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Milo
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • Yokohl
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Yokohl is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
  • Globe
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Globe is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • Auckland
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Auckland is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
  • Exeter
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lindsay
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Cabin Cove ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cabin Cove.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cabin Cove, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cabin Cove.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Cabin Cove:

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 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.
<3>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 Cabin Cove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- Cabin Cove) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.