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Introduction ...

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

We've added Hogtown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hogtown, 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 Hogtown (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 Hogtown. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Hogtown 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 Hogtown. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hogtown:

  • Shasta County     (The home county of Hogtown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hogtown, with the one closest to Hogtown listed first.
    • Keswick
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Keswick is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keswick
    • Shasta
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Kilna ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Kilna is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilna
    • Waugh ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Waugh is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waugh
    • Matheson ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Matheson is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matheson
    • Whitehouse ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Whitehouse is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitehouse
    • Redding
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Copley ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Copley is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copley
      • Former name for Copley:
      • Motion
    • Buckeye
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
    • Iron Mountain ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Iron Mountain is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Mountain
    • Whiskeytown ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Whiskeytown is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiskeytown
      • Former names for Whiskeytown:
      • Blair
      • Franklin City
      • Schilling
      • Stella
      • Whiskey Creek
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whiskeytown <2>
    • Middletown ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Middletown is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
  • Tehama County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hogtown, with the one closest to Hogtown listed first.
    • Hooker
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Hooker is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
    • Bend
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Bend is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
    • Dales
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Dales is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dales
  • Trinity County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hogtown, with the one closest to Hogtown listed first.
    • Deadwood ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Deadwood is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
    • Lewiston
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Minersville ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Minersville is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
    • Douglas City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Weaverville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Trinity Center
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Hogtown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hogtown.

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

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

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

  • Shasta Catholic Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Shasta Union Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Whiskeytown Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Middletown Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Middleton Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • St. Joseph Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Josephs Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Redding Memorial Park
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Buckeye Pioneer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Churntown Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Texas Springs Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (30 more) ...
    • Igo Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Lawncrest Memorial Park
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Central Valley Cemetery
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Shasta
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Waugh ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Waugh is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waugh
  • Redding
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Buckeye
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
  • Hart ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Hart is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
    • Hart has also been known as:
    • Hart Village
    • Hart's Camp
  • Copley ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Copley is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copley
    • Former name for Copley:
    • Motion
  • Igo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Girvan
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Girvan is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girvan
  • Kennett ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Kennett is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennett
  • French Gulch
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Ono
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Ono is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ono
  • Olinda
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Olinda is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinda
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Morley ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Morley is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morley
    • Gas Point ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Gas Point is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gas Point
    • Anderson
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • 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>

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

Newspapers Published in Hogtown ...

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 57 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hogtown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hogtown, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hogtown.

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 Hogtown:

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 Hogtown, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hogtown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.