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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Henryford. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Henryford to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Henryford, please Contact Us.

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 Henryford (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 Henryford. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Henryford is historic, it would have been located within present day Shasta 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 Shasta County: Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Tehama & Trinity.

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

  • Shasta County     (The home county of Henryford)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Henryford, with the one closest to Henryford listed first.
    • Basin Hollow ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Basin Hollow is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin Hollow
    • Millville
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Palo Cedro
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Pawnee ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Pawnee is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pawnee
    • Fleaville ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Fleaville is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleaville
    • Parkville ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Parkville is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
    • Bella Vista
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Inwood
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Inwood is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood
    • Oak Run
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Loomis Corners ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Loomis Corners is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loomis Corners
    • Midway
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Midway is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midway
    • Balls Ferry ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Balls Ferry is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balls Ferry
  • Tehama County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Henryford, with the one closest to Henryford listed first.
    • Manton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Dales
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Dales is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dales
    • Paynes Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Hooker
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Hooker is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
    • Bend
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Bend is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
    • Dantuma Place
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Dantuma Place is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dantuma Place
    • Red Bluff
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Henryford ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Henryford.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

  • Millville
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Inwood
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Inwood is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood
  • Oak Run
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Balls Ferry ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Balls Ferry is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balls Ferry
  • Anderson
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Anderson is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,565 people
    • Former name for Anderson:
    • American Ranch
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anderson <2>
  • Girvan
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Girvan is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girvan
  • Redding
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Cottonwood
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Ydaloom ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom
  • Shingletown
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Buckeye
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
  • Waugh ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Waugh is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waugh
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Olinda
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Olinda is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinda
    • Manton
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Baird ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Baird is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird

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

Newspapers Published in Henryford ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Henryford.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Henryford, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Henryford.

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 Henryford:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Henryford, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Henryford) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.