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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 Christensen (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 Christensen. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Christensen is located in Modoc 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 Modoc County: Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou, Washoe (NV), Klamath (OR) & Lake (OR).

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

  • Modoc County     (The home county of Christensen)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Christensen, with the one closest to Christensen listed first.
    • McArthur
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • McArthur is located in Modoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McArthur
    • Likely
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Cantrall Mill ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Cantrall Mill is located in Modoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantrall Mill
    • Alturas
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Alturas is located in Modoc County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,542 people
      • Former name for Alturas:
      • Dorrisville
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alturas <1>
    • Canby
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Adin
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Eagleville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Cedarville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Lake City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Lookout
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Lassen County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Christensen, with the one closest to Christensen listed first.
    • Madeline
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Termo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Termo is located in Lassen County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Termo
    • Pumpkin Center
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Christensen ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Christensen.

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

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

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

  • Likely Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Likely Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Likely Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Likely.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8111 <2>
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Centerville Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Ash Valley Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Alturas Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Alturas Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Alturas.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1975553 <2>
  • Madeline Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madeline Cemetery
    • The Madeline Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Madaline Cemetery
    • Madeleine Cemetery
    • Madieline Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2237969 <2>
  • Alturas Indian Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Canby Pioneer Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canby Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Canby Pioneer Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the south of Canby.
    • The Canby Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Canby Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2305845 <2>
  • ISOT Family Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for ISOT Family Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the ISOT Family Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Canby.
    • The ISOT Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • In Search of Truth Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2550853 <2>
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Adin.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2240055 <2>
  • Adin Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adin Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Adin Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Adin.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7831 <2>
  • Eagleville Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Indian Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Cedarville Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Likely
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Alturas
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Alturas is located in Modoc County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,542 people
    • Former name for Alturas:
    • Dorrisville
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alturas <1>
  • Madeline
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Canby
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Adin
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Eagleville
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Hayden Hill ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hayden Hill is located in Lassen County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden Hill
  • Cedarville
    (26 miles [41.8 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 Christensen. See our List of 1890's Communities around Christensen.

Newspapers Published in Christensen ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Christensen.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Christensen, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Christensen.

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 Christensen:

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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Christensen) 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 Christensen, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.