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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 Hammond (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 Hammond. 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 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.

Hammond is located in Tulare 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 Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Hammond)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • Three Rivers
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Kaweah
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Advance ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Advance is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
    • Lemon Cove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Silver City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Silver City is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Stony Creek Village
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Stony Creek Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Village
    • Hartland
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Hartland is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
    • Woodlake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Badger
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Woodlake Junction
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Woodlake Junction is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlake Junction
    • Milo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Milo is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
    • Grant Grove Village
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Grant Grove Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Grove Village
    • Exeter
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hammond, with the one closest to Hammond listed first.
    • Miramonte
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Pinehurst
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Hume
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Dunlap
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Cedar Grove
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Kanawyers ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Kanawyers is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawyers
    • Orange Cove
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Yokuts
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Hammond ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hammond.

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

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

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

  • Woodlake Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Lone Oak Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Deep Creek Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Lindsay - Strathmore Public Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Crabtree Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Visalia Public Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Visalia Public Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Visalia Public Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Visalia.
    • The Visalia Public Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Visalia Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #198468 <2>
  • Squaw Valley Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Smith Mtn. Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Porterville Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Tule River Indian Reservation Upper 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.<3>

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

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

  • Three Rivers
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Kaweah
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Advance ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Advance is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
  • Yokohl
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Yokohl is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
  • Auckland
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Auckland is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
  • Milo
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • Exeter
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Lindsay
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Farmersville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Taurusa
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Taurusa is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taurusa
  • Dunlap
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Orosi
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Globe
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Globe is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
    • Visalia
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Monson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Monson is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monson

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

Newspapers Published in Hammond ...

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 75 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hammond.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hammond, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hammond.

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 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 Hammond:

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>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 Hammond, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 from Point A (ie- Hammond) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.