Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Chloride City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Chloride City, please Contact Us.

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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 Chloride City (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 Chloride City. 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 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Chloride City is historic, it would have been located within present day Inyo 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 Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

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

• Inyo County     (The home county of Chloride City)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Chloride City, with the one closest to Chloride City listed first.
  • Beatty Junction ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Junction
    • Beatty Junction is located in Inyo County
  • Leadfield ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadfield
    • Leadfield is located in Inyo County
  • Park Village
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Village
    • Park Village is located in Inyo County
  • Harmony Borax Works ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Borax Works
    • Harmony Borax Works is located in Inyo County
    • Former name for Harmony Borax Works:
    • Greenland
  • Stovepipe Wells
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stovepipe Wells
    • Stovepipe Wells is located in Inyo County
  • Furnace Creek
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnace Creek
    • Furnace Creek is located in Inyo County
    • Furnace Creek has also been known as:
    • Furnace Creek Ranch
  • Schwab ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schwab have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schwab
    • Schwab is located in Inyo County
  • Indian Village
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
    • Indian Village is located in Inyo County
  • Skidoo ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Skidoo
    • Skidoo is located in Inyo County
  • Harrisburg ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrisburg
    • Harrisburg is located in Inyo County
  • Scranton ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scranton
    • Scranton is located in Inyo County
  • Ryan ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ryan
    • Ryan is located in Inyo County
• Nye County (NV)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Chloride City, with the one closest to Chloride City listed first.
  • Carrara ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrara
    • Carrara is located in Nye County (NV)
  • Rhyolite ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhyolite
    • Rhyolite is located in Nye County (NV)
  • Beatty
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty
    • Beatty is located in Nye County (NV)
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beatty <3>
  • Hot Springs
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
    • Hot Springs is located in Nye County (NV)
  • Amargosa Valley
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargosa Valley
    • Amargosa Valley is located in Nye County (NV)
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amargosa Valley <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Chloride City ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chloride City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chloride City, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chloride City.

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 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 Chloride City:

• Websites specific to California
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the California State Archives

• Pages specific to Inyo County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Nye County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for California
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of California
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of California
  • Cemeteries of Inyo County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of California
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of California
  • Cemeteries of Inyo County

Cemeteries Near Chloride City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chloride City.

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

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

• Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite is located in the vicinity of Beatty Junction
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8084 <6>
• Bullfrog - Rhyolite Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bullfrog - Rhyolite Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161198 <6>
• Desert Hill Cemetery
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desert Hill Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Beatty (NV).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desert Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83921 <6>
• Schwab Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Schwab Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Schwab Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> to the southwest of Furnace Creek.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schwab Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2336833 <6>
• Skidoo Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Skidoo Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Skidoo Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<4> to the north of Stovepipe Wells.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Skidoo Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254610 <6>
• Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136714 <6>
• Springdale Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Springdale Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springdale Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2564306 <6>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Inyo County: www.inyocounty.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/