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Introduction ...

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

We've added Cougar to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cougar, 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 Cougar (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 Cougar. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Cougar is historic, it would have been located within present day Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County: Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Jackson (OR), Josephine (OR) & Klamath (OR).

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

  • Siskiyou County     (The home county of Cougar)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Cougar, with the one closest to Cougar listed first.
    • Big Springs
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs
      • Big Springs is located in Siskiyou County
    • Little Shasta
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Shasta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
      • Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
    • Carrick
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carrick have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrick
      • Carrick is located in Siskiyou County
    • Tennant
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tennant
      • Tennant is located in Siskiyou County
    • Edgewood
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
      • Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
    • Weed
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weed
      • Weed is located in Siskiyou County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,668 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weed <3>
    • Mount Hebron
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Hebron have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hebron
      • Mount Hebron is located in Siskiyou County
    • Gazelle
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Grenada
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Macdoel
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Mount Shasta
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Montague
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Somerset
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerset
      • Somerset is located in Siskiyou County
  • Shasta County
    • Castle Crags ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castle Crags have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Crags
      • Castle Crags is located in Shasta County

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

Newspapers Published in Cougar ...

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 52 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cougar.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cougar, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cougar.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Cougar:

Cemeteries Near Cougar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cougar.

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

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

  • Arbaugh - Dunlap Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Little Shasta Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Little Shasta Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Little Shasta Cemetery
  • Winema Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Winema Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winema Cemetery
  • Foulke Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Foulke Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Foulke Cemetery
  • Gazelle Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gazelle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gazelle Cemetery
  • Julien Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Julien Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Julien Cemetery
  • Mt. Shasta Memorial Park
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lakeview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeview Cemetery
  • Montague Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Montague Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Montague Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • McCloud Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Dunsmuir Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Evergreen Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Evergreen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Evergreen Cemetery
    • Picard Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Picard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Picard Cemetery
    • Way Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Way Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Way Cemetery
    • Henley - Hornbrook Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Henley - Hornbrook Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Henley - Hornbrook Cemetery

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

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

  • Little Shasta
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Little Shasta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
    • Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
  • Edgewood
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
    • Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
  • Igerna
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Igerna have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igerna
    • Igerna is located in Siskiyou County
  • Mount Hebron
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mount Hebron have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Hebron
    • Mount Hebron is located in Siskiyou County
  • Gazelle
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Grenada
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Montague
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Cantara ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cantara have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
    • Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
  • Mott
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mott have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
    • Mott is located in Siskiyou County
  • McCloud
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Ager
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ager
    • Ager is located in Siskiyou County
  • Bogus ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bogus. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
    • Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Yreka
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yreka
      • Yreka is located in Siskiyou County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,503 people
      • Yreka has also been known as:
      • Yreka City
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yreka <3>
    • Dunsmuir
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Beswick
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beswick have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beswick
      • Beswick is located in Siskiyou County

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

The official website for Siskiyou County: www.co.siskiyou.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 Cougar, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Cougar) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Cougar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.5829, Longitude: -122.1850    
<5>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.
<6>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.




 

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