A visit to the Oak Grove Cemetery ...
Introduction ...
Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Oak Grove Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Oak Grove Cemetery (FG ID #440501)
Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. As an example and without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery had actually been buried elsewhere.
We discovered that his burial plans had changed at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.
Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.
The Location of the Oak Grove Cemetery ...
The Oak Grove Cemetery is located in Fresno County<2>.
List of nearby cemeteries ...
We've listed the following cemeteries alphabetically:
- Calvary Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Del Rey Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Floral Memorial Park
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Fowler Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Grangeville Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Hanford Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Kings River Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Kingsburg Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Lakeside Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lemoore Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Mendocino Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- The Mendocino Cemetery is located in Fresno County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendocino Cemetery
- North Selma Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (9 more) ...
- Odd Fellows Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- The Odd Fellows Cemetery is located in Fresno County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Odd Fellows Cemetery
- Potters Field
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Raisin City Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Rhoads Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Sam Yup Chinese Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Taylor Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Washington Colony Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- West Selma Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.
List of neighboring communities ...
The following 24 communities are within 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> of the Oak Grove Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically:
- Armona
- Bowles
- Burrel
- Caruthers
- Conejo
- Del Rey
- Easton
- Fowler
- Hanford
- Hardwick
- Home Garden
- Hub
- Hub is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Kingsburg
- Lanare
- Laton
- Lemoore
- London
- Malaga
- Malaga is located in Fresno County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malaga
- Parlier
- Raisin City
- Riverdale
- Selma
- Traver
- Vanguard
- Vanguard is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanguard
For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.
Nearby communities with newspapers ...
The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Oak Grove Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Fresno County.
More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Oak Grove Cemetery.
We've listed the following communities alphabetically.
- Armona
- Del Rey
- Fowler
- Hanford
- Kingsburg
- Laton
- Lemoore
- Parlier
- Riverdale
- Selma
- Traver
Websites to help with your research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their websites are open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Oak Grove Cemetery:
- Pages specific to California:
- Pages specific to Fresno County:
- Genealogy information for nearby counties:
- Cemetery Information and Directories:
Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...
Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.
We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Oak Grove Cemetery:
Referenced Find-A-Grave Entry: #440501
Footnotes ...
| <1> | 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. |
| <2> | If you're interested in how the shape of California's counties, including Fresno, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Oak Grove Cemetery) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |