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Introduction ...

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

We've added Dog Town to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dog Town, 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 Dog Town (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 Dog Town. 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 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 Dog Town is historic, it would have been located within present day Mono 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 Mono County: Alpine, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Tuolumne, Douglas (NV), Esmeralda (NV), Lyon (NV) & Mineral (NV).

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

  • Mono County     (The home county of Dog Town)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dog Town, with the one closest to Dog Town listed first.
    • Willow Springs
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
      • Willow Springs is located in Mono County
    • Dunderberg Mill ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dunderberg Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunderberg Mill
      • Dunderberg Mill is located in Mono County
    • Bridgeport
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Mono City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono City
      • Mono City is located in Mono County
    • Bodie ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie
      • Bodie is located in Mono County
    • Chinatown ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinatown
      • Chinatown is located in Mono County
    • Lundy
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
      • Lundy is located in Mono County
      • Former name for Lundy:
      • Mill Creek
    • Mono Lake ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mono Lake. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono Lake
      • Mono Lake is located in Mono County
    • Chemung Mine ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chemung Mine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chemung Mine
      • Chemung Mine is located in Mono County
    • Masonic ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Masonic. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masonic
      • Masonic is located in Mono County
    • Lee Vining
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Fales Hot Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fales Hot Springs
      • Fales Hot Springs is located in Mono County
    • Bennettville ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennettville
      • Bennettville is located in Mono County
      • Former names for Bennettville:
      • Bennett City
      • Tioga
  • Tuolumne County
    • Golden Crown Mine ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Golden Crown Mine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Crown Mine
      • Golden Crown Mine is located in Tuolumne County
  • Lyon County (NV)
    • Wichman
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wichman
      • Wichman is located in Lyon County (NV)
  • Mineral County (NV)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dog Town, with the one closest to Dog Town listed first.
    • Del Monte ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Del Monte have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Del Monte
      • Del Monte is located in Mineral County (NV)
    • Aurora ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
      • Aurora is located in Mineral County (NV)
    • Esmeralda ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Esmeralda have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmeralda
      • Esmeralda is located in Mineral County (NV)

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

Newspapers Published in Dog Town ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dog Town.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dog Town, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dog Town.

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 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 Dog Town:

Cemeteries Near Dog Town ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dog Town.

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

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

  • Dog Town Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Dog Town Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • The Dog Town Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Dogtown Gravesite
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dog Town Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2478036 <6>
  • Mono County Poor Farm Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Mono County Poor Farm Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mono County Poor Farm Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Willow Springs.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mono County Poor Farm Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2477313 <6>
  • Bridgeport Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Jordon / Lundy Avalanche Victims Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Lundy Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lundy Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lundy Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the east of Mono City.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lundy Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2432220 <6>
  • Mono Lake Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Boot Hill Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Masonic Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bodie
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Masonic Cemetery
  • Miners Union Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Miners Union Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bodie
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miners Union Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Bodie Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bodie Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bodie
      • The Bodie Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Wards Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bodie Cemetery
    • Adeline Carson Stilts Burial Site
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Adeline Carson Stilts Burial Site. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Adeline Carson Stilts Burial Site is located outside and to the south of Mono City.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Adeline Carson Stilts Burial Site
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2495049 <6>
    • Rush Creek Indian Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Aurora Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Clinton Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Clinton Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Clinton Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<5> to the southwest of Belfort.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clinton Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2492064 <6>
    • Bloody Canyon Gravesite
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bloody Canyon Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bloody Canyon Gravesite is located 4 miles [6.4 km]<5> to the north of Lee Vining.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bloody Canyon Gravesite
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2495785 <6>

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

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

  • Bridgeport
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Lundy
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
    • Lundy is located in Mono County
    • Former name for Lundy:
    • Mill Creek
  • Bodie ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie
    • Bodie is located in Mono County
  • Mono Lake ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mono Lake. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono Lake
    • Mono Lake is located in Mono County
  • Aurora ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
    • Aurora is located in Mineral County (NV)

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

The official website for Mono County: www.monocounty.ca.gov/

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 Dog Town, 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>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.
<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- Dog Town) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dog Town. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.1702, Longitude: -119.1968       In this case, the coordinates for Dog Town have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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