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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 Cohasset (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 Cohasset. 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 and doctors 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.

Cohasset is located in Butte 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 Butte County: Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Sutter, Tehama & Yuba.

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

  • Butte County     (The home county of Cohasset)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cohasset, with the one closest to Cohasset listed first.
    • Forest Ranch
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Forest Ranch is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Ranch
    • De Sabla
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • De Sabla is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Sabla
    • Powellton
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Powellton is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton
    • Nimshew
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Nimshew is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimshew
    • Irish Town
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Irish Town is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irish Town
    • Paradise Pines
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Paradise Pines is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Pines
    • Stirling City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Inskip ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Inskip is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inskip
    • Magalia
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Paradise
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Butte Meadows
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Chico
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Chico is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 102,867 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chico <1>
    • Nord ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Nord is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nord
  • Glenn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cohasset, with the one closest to Cohasset listed first.
    • Hamilton City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Capay
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Capay is located in Glenn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capay
    • Orland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Plumas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cohasset, with the one closest to Cohasset listed first.
    • Storrie
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Tobin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Tobin is located in Plumas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tobin
    • Belden
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Bucks Lake
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Bucks Lake is located in Plumas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Lake
    • Rich Bar ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Rich Bar is located in Plumas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rich Bar
    • Longville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Longville is located in Plumas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longville
  • Tehama County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cohasset, with the one closest to Cohasset listed first.
    • Vina
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Los Molinos
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Tehama
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Corning
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Gerber
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Kirkwood
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Kirkwood is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkwood
    • Dantuma Place
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Dantuma Place is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dantuma Place
    • Proberta
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Rawson
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Rawson is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawson
    • Mill Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Mineral
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Paynes Creek
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Cohasset ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cohasset.

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

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

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

  • Cohasset Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Forest Ranch Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Nicholl Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Coutolenc Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Centerville Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Inskip Pioneer Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Skyway Memorial Park
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Paradise Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Pine Creek Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Creek Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pine Creek Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the northwest of Chico.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8268 <2>
  • Mechoopda Indian Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Chico Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Chico Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Chico.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7900 <2>
  • Butte Meadows Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (30 more) ...
    • Vina Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vina Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Vina Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the northeast of Vina.
      • The Vina Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Carter Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7884 <2>
    • Glen Oaks Memorial Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Durham Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 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.<4>

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

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

  • Forest Ranch
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Forest Ranch is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Ranch
  • Nimshew
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Nimshew is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nimshew
  • Lovelock
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Lovelock is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelock
  • Powellton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Powellton is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powellton
  • Inskip ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Inskip is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inskip
  • Magalia
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Paradise
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Chico
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Chico is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chico
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 102,867 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Chico <1>
  • Butte Meadows
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Cana
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Cana is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cana
  • Anita
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Anita is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anita
  • Nord ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Nord is located in Butte County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nord
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Vina
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Yankee Hill
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Yankee Hill is located in Butte County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yankee Hill
    • Durham
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Cohasset ...

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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cohasset.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cohasset, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cohasset.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Cohasset:

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