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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Four Pines (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 Four Pines. 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 hospitals and 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.

Four Pines is located in Lake 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 Lake County: Colusa, Glenn, Mendocino, Napa, Sonoma & Yolo.

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

  • Lake County     (The home county of Four Pines)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Four Pines, with the one closest to Four Pines listed first.
    • Witter Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Witter Springs is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Witter Springs
    • Saratoga Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Saratoga Springs is located in Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saratoga Springs
  • Colusa County
  • Glenn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Four Pines, with the one closest to Four Pines listed first.
    • Lone Star ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Lone Star is located in Glenn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
    • Copper City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Copper City is located in Glenn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
    • Dogtown
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Dogtown is located in Glenn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dogtown
    • Elk Creek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Newville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Newville is located in Glenn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newville
  • Mendocino County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Four Pines, with the one closest to Four Pines listed first.
    • Covelo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Dos Rios
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Potter Valley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Willits
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Redwood Valley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Soda Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Soda Springs is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Springs
    • Laytonville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Calpella
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Hemlock Ranch
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Hemlock Ranch is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemlock Ranch
      • Hemlock Ranch has also been known as:
      • Hemlock
    • Shake City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Shake City is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shake City
    • Spyrock
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Spyrock is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spyrock
    • The Forks
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • The Forks is located in Mendocino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Forks

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

Cemeteries Near Four Pines ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Four Pines.

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 Four Pines - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Hulls Grave
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Yuki Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Nome Lackee Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Little Lake Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Potter Valley Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Willits Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Watson Grave
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Elk Creek Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Grindstone Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Laytonville Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Chrome Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrome Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Chrome Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the north of Elk Creek.
      • The Chrome Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Milsap Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8162 <2>
    • Millsap Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Stonyford Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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.<4>

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

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

  • Hearst
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Hearst is located in Mendocino County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hearst
  • Covelo
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Potter Valley
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Pomo
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Pomo is located in Mendocino County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pomo
  • Willits
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Elk Creek
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Laytonville
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Calpella
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Hemlock Ranch
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Hemlock Ranch is located in Mendocino County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hemlock Ranch
    • Hemlock Ranch has also been known as:
    • Hemlock
  • Newville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Newville is located in Glenn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newville
  • Stonyford
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fruto
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Fruto is located in Glenn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruto

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

Newspapers Published in Four Pines ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Four Pines.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Four Pines, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Four Pines.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Four Pines:

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 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.
<3>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- Four Pines) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Four Pines, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.