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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 Harts Place (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 Harts Place. 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 Harts Place ...

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 occur.

  • A typical abbreviation for Harts Place: Harts Pl. (or less commonly used: Harts Plc.)
  • While the name of this community is Harts Place, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Harts Place may originally have been Hart's Place.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Harts Place might be written as Hart Place.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Harts Place is located in Kern 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 Kern County: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare & Ventura.

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

  • Kern County     (The home county of Harts Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harts Place, with the one closest to Harts Place listed first.
    • Armistead
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Armistead is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armistead
    • Freeman ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Freeman is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
    • Saltdale ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Saltdale is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saltdale
    • Garlock
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Garlock is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garlock
    • Inyokern
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Cantil
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • China Lake Acres
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Lake Acres
    • Sageland ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Sageland is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sageland
    • Ridgecrest
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Randsburg
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • China Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Johannesburg
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Onyx
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Inyo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harts Place, with the one closest to Harts Place listed first.
    • Pearsonville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Pearsonville is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsonville
    • Linnie ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Linnie is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linnie
    • Narka ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Narka is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narka
    • Little Lake ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • San Bernardino County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Harts Place, with the one closest to Harts Place listed first.
    • Red Mountain
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Spangler ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Spangler is located in San Bernardino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spangler
  • Tulare County
    • South Lake
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • South Lake is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lake

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

Cemeteries Near Harts Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Harts Place.

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 Harts Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Josie Bishop Gravesite
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Garlock - Goler Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garlock - Goler Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Garlock - Goler Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Garlock
    • The Garlock - Goler Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Benson Canyon Cemetery
    • Goler Cemetery
    • Goler Mine Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2432257 <4>
  • Sageland Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Mt. Owens Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Roger McGavin Gravesite
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Rand District Community Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rand District Community Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rand District Community Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Johannesburg
    • The Rand District Community Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Johannesburg Cemetery
    • Rand District Cemetery
    • Randsburg Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #685739 <4>
  • Desert Memorial Park
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Cottage Grove Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Onyx Indian Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Onyx Indian Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Onyx Indian Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Onyx.
    • The Onyx Indian Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Indian Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8065 <4>
  • Pauls Place Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • California City Memorial Park
    (25 miles [40.2 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.<5>

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

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

  • Freeman ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Freeman is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
  • Onyx
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Weldon
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Harts Place ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Harts Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Harts Place, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Harts Place.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Harts Place:

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Harts Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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>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 Harts Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.