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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 Calflax (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 Calflax. 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 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.

Calflax is located in Fresno 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 Fresno County: Inyo, Kings, Madera, Merced, Mono, San Benito & Tulare.

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

  • Fresno County     (The home county of Calflax)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calflax, with the one closest to Calflax listed first.
    • Five Points
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Huron
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Lanare
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Lanare is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanare
    • Burrel
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Helm
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Riverdale
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Cantua Creek
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • San Joaquin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Giffen Cantua Ranch
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Giffen Cantua Ranch is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Giffen Cantua Ranch
    • Caruthers
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Coalinga
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Raisin City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Tranquillity
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Kings County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calflax, with the one closest to Calflax listed first.
    • Vanguard
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Vanguard is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanguard
    • Hub
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Hub is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub
    • Lemoore
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Stratford
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Armona
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Hardwick
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Hardwick is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardwick
    • Millham City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Millham City is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millham City
    • Avenal
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Kettleman City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Hanford
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Home Garden
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Home Garden is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Garden

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

Cemeteries Near Calflax ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Calflax.

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 Calflax - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Taylor Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Rhoads Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Lemoore Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the south of Lemoore.
    • The Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Tachi Indian Cemetery
    • Tachi Yokut Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2152019 <2>
  • Warthan Canyon Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Oak Knoll Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Raisin City Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Grangeville Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grangeville Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Grangeville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Armona.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #247363 <2>
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Potters Field
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Sam Yup Chinese Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Kings River Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Hanford Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Huron
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Riverdale
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Caruthers
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Lillis ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Lillis is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillis
  • Hanford
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Wildflower
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Wildflower is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildflower
  • Oleander
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Oleander is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oleander
  • Easton
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Calflax ...

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 67 newspapers that have been published in the area around Calflax.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Calflax:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Calflax) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Calflax, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.