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Introduction ...

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

We've added Docas to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Docas, 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 Docas (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 Docas. 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 doctors and hospitals 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 Docas is historic, it would have been located within present day Monterey 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 Monterey County: Fresno, Kings, San Benito, San Luis Obispo & Santa Cruz.

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

  • Monterey County     (The home county of Docas)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Docas, with the one closest to Docas listed first.
    • San Ardo
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • San Lucas
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lockwood
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • King City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Martinus Corner
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Martinus Corner is located in Monterey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinus Corner
    • Jolon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Pleyto ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Pleyto is located in Monterey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleyto
    • Bradley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Greenfield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Fresno County
    • Parkfield Junction
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Parkfield Junction is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkfield Junction
  • San Benito County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Docas, with the one closest to Docas listed first.
    • Bitterwater
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Bitterwater is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitterwater
    • New Idria ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • New Idria is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Idria
      • New Idria has also been known as:
      • Idria
    • San Benito
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • San Benito is located in San Benito County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Benito
  • San Luis Obispo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Docas, with the one closest to Docas listed first.
    • Bee Rock
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Bee Rock is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bee Rock
    • Lake Nacimiento
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • San Miguel
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Wellsona
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Wellsona is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsona

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

Cemeteries Near Docas ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Docas.

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

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

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

  • Lockwood Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Mansfield Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mansfield Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mansfield Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<3> to the south of King City.
    • The Mansfield Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Quinado Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2345997 <4>
  • King City Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Clayton Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Williams - Duckworth Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Anderson Akers Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Greenfield Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Bitterwater Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitterwater Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bitterwater Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Bitterwater.
    • The Bitterwater Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pine Hill Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7858 <4>
  • Warthan Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Imusdale Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Adelaida Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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.

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

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

  • San Ardo
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • San Lucas
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Lockwood
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Lonoak
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Lonoak is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lonoak
  • King City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Jolon
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Pleyto ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Pleyto is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleyto
  • Bradley
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Valleton
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Valleton is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valleton
  • Bryson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Bryson is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryson
  • Bitterwater
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Bitterwater is located in San Benito County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitterwater
  • Metz
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Metz is located in Monterey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
  • San Miguel
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • New Idria ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • New Idria is located in San Benito County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Idria
    • New Idria has also been known as:
    • Idria

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

Newspapers Published in Docas ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Docas.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Docas, 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 Docas.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Docas:

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 Docas, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Docas) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.