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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 Fort Dick (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 Fort Dick. 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 Fort Dick ...

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 Fort Dick: Ft. Dick

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 doctors and 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.

Fort Dick is located in Del Norte 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 Del Norte County: Humboldt, Siskiyou, Curry (OR) & Josephine (OR).

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

  • Del Norte County     (The home county of Fort Dick)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Dick, with the one closest to Fort Dick listed first.
    • Smith River
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Hiouchi
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Bertsch - Oceanview
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bertsch - Oceanview. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bertsch - Oceanview
      • Bertsch - Oceanview is located in Del Norte County
    • Crescent City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Gasquet
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Klamath
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Curry County (OR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Dick, with the one closest to Fort Dick listed first.
    • Brookings
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Harbor
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harbor have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor
      • Harbor is located in Curry County (OR)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harbor <1>
    • Pistol River
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Josephine County (OR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fort Dick, with the one closest to Fort Dick listed first.
    • O'Brien
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Brown City ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brown City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brown City
      • Brown City is located in Josephine County (OR)
    • Waldo ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Waldo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldo
      • Waldo is located in Josephine County (OR)

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

Newspapers Published in Fort Dick ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fort Dick.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fort Dick, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fort Dick.

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 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 Fort Dick:

Cemeteries Near Fort Dick ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fort Dick.

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

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

  • Indian Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Cemetery
  • Indian Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Cemetery
  • Brother Jonathan Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brother Jonathan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brother Jonathan Cemetery
  • Oceanview Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oceanview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Oceanview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pioneer Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oceanview Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2329733 <5>
  • Van Pelt Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Van Pelt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Van Pelt Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39524 <5>
  • Old Brookings Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Brookings Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Brookings Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2329739 <5>
  • William James Ward Memorial Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the William James Ward Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Brookings (OR).
    • The William James Ward Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • W.J. Ward Memorial Cemetery
    • Ward Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the William James Ward Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39536 <5>

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

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

  • Smith River
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Crescent City
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Gasquet
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Requa
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Requa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Requa
    • Requa is located in Del Norte County
  • Waldo ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Waldo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waldo
    • Waldo is located in Josephine County (OR)

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

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

The official website for Del Norte County: www.co.del-norte.ca.us/

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>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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Fort Dick) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fort Dick. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.8680, Longitude: -124.1493    
<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>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 Fort Dick, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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