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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 Doyle Crossing (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 Doyle Crossing. 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 Doyle Crossing ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Doyle Crossing: Doyle Xing.

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.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Doyle Crossing is located in Plumas 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 Plumas County: Butte, Lassen, Shasta, Sierra, Tehama & Yuba.

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

  • Plumas County     (The home county of Doyle Crossing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doyle Crossing, with the one closest to Doyle Crossing listed first.
    • Lake Davis
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Davis
      • Lake Davis is located in Plumas County
    • Taylorsville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Beckwourth
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Delleker
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delleker
      • Delleker is located in Plumas County
    • Portola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Cromberg
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Greenhorn
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greenhorn have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenhorn
      • Greenhorn is located in Plumas County
    • Spring Garden
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Garden
      • Spring Garden is located in Plumas County
    • Iron Horse
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iron Horse have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Horse
      • Iron Horse is located in Plumas County
    • Massack
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Massack
      • Massack is located in Plumas County
    • Crescent Mills
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Blairsden
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Mohawk Vista
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk Vista
      • Mohawk Vista is located in Plumas County
  • Lassen County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Doyle Crossing, with the one closest to Doyle Crossing listed first.
    • Milford
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Herlong Junction
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Herlong Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herlong Junction
      • Herlong Junction is located in Lassen County
    • Janesville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Patton Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Patton Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patton Village
      • Patton Village is located in Lassen County
    • Standish
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Herlong
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Leavitt
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leavitt
      • Leavitt is located in Lassen County
    • Litchfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Doyle
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Wendel
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Belfast
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfast
      • Belfast is located in Lassen County
    • Susanville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine Town
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pine Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Town
      • Pine Town is located in Lassen County
  • Sierra County

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

Newspapers Published in Doyle Crossing ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Doyle Crossing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Doyle Crossing, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Doyle Crossing.

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 websites either 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 Doyle Crossing:

Cemeteries Near Doyle Crossing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Doyle Crossing.

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

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

  • Milford Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Lake Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Janesville Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Shims Flat Indian Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shims Flat Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Shims Flat Indian Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Shim Flat Indian Cemetery
    • Shims Flat Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shims Flat Indian Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8370 <4>
  • Diamond Crest Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Johnstonville Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Johnstonville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Johnstonville Cemetery
  • Taylorsville Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Taylorsville Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Taylorsville Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Taylorsville.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Taylorsville Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1991783 <4>
  • Whispering Pines Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Long Valley Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Amedee Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • North Valley Indian Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the North Valley Indian Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the North Valley Indian Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2257639 <4>
  • Cromberg Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Cromberg Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cromberg Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7925 <4>
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...

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.<6>

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

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

  • Milford
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Janesville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Genesee ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Genesee have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genesee
    • Genesee is located in Plumas County
  • Taylorsville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Cromberg
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Susanville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Crescent Mills
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Mohawk
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mohawk have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk
    • Mohawk is located in Plumas County
  • Greenville
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Johnsville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Quincy
    (27 miles [43.5 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 Doyle Crossing. See our List of 1890's Communities around Doyle Crossing.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Doyle Crossing. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Plumas County: www.countyofplumas.com/

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

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 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>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 from Point A (ie- Doyle Crossing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Doyle Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1130, Longitude: -120.4838       In this case, the coordinates for Doyle Crossing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<5>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.
<6>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 Doyle Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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