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Introduction ...

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

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

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 Copper 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 Copper 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.

Name Variations for Copper City ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Copper City was originally named Brownsville

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

A Few Details for Copper City ...

While it's still very early in our research, we found that:

  • Copper City was established in 1852.
  • The community was inundated by Lake Shasta (in 1944).

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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Copper City is historic, it would have been located within present day Shasta 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 Shasta County: Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Tehama & Trinity.

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

  • Shasta County     (The home county of Copper City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper City, with the one closest to Copper City listed first.
    • Elizabethtown ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Elizabethtown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elizabethtown
      • Elizabethtown is located in Shasta County
    • Ydaloom ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ydaloom have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom
      • Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
    • Bully Hill ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bully Hill
      • Bully Hill is located in Shasta County
    • Winthrop ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winthrop have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winthrop
      • Winthrop is located in Shasta County
    • Heroult ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Heroult. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heroult
      • Heroult is located in Shasta County
    • Baird ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baird have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird
      • Baird is located in Shasta County
    • Bayha
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bayha have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bayha
      • Bayha is located in Shasta County
    • O'Brien
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Furnaceville ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Furnaceville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnaceville
      • Furnaceville is located in Shasta County
    • Ingot
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingot
      • Ingot is located in Shasta County
      • Former names for Ingot:
      • Afterthought
      • Silverton
    • McColl ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McColl have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McColl
      • McColl is located in Shasta County
    • Mountain Gate
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Gate
      • Mountain Gate is located in Shasta County
      • Former names for Mountain Gate:
      • Bass
      • Fish's Station
  • Siskiyou County
    • Dunsmuir
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Tehama County
  • Trinity County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper City, with the one closest to Copper City listed first.
    • Deadwood ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deadwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
      • Deadwood is located in Trinity County
    • Trinity Center
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Minersville ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minersville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
      • Minersville is located in Trinity County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Copper 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 61 newspapers that have been published in the area around Copper City.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Copper City. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Copper City and those printed in the larger area surrounding Copper City.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5> of Copper City.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Copper City:

Cemeteries Near Copper City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Copper 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 Copper City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Houston Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Central Valley Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Oak Run Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Oak Run Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oak Run Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2244289 <6>
  • Churntown Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Buckeye Pioneer Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Halcumb Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Redding Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Lawncrest Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the IOOF Cemetery
  • Millville IOOF Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (35 more) ...
    • St. Josephs Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Josephs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Josephs Cemetery
    • Cove Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cove Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cove Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7923 <6>
    • Delta Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)

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.

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

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

  • Ydaloom ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ydaloom have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom
    • Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
  • Baird ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Baird have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird
    • Baird is located in Shasta County
  • Morley ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morley
    • Morley is located in Shasta County
  • Elmore ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elmore have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmore
    • Elmore is located in Shasta County
  • Mabel ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mabel have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabel
    • Mabel is located in Shasta County
  • Kennett ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kennett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennett
    • Kennett is located in Shasta County
  • Oak Run
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Buckeye
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
    • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
  • Copley ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Copley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copley
    • Copley is located in Shasta County
    • Former name for Copley:
    • Motion
  • Hart ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hart have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
    • Hart is located in Shasta County
    • Hart has also been known as:
    • Hart Village
    • Hart's Camp
  • Round Mountain
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Millville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Montgomery Creek
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Delta
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
      • Delta is located in Shasta County
      • Former name for Delta:
      • Bayles
    • Redding
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)

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

The official website for Shasta County: www.co.shasta.ca.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Copper City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Copper City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Copper City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.7790, Longitude: -122.2114    
<6>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.




 

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