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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 Inperial Gables (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 Inperial Gables. 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 doctors 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.

Inperial Gables is located in Imperial 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 Imperial County: Yuma (AZ), Riverside & San Diego.

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

  • Imperial County     (The home county of Inperial Gables)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inperial Gables, with the one closest to Inperial Gables listed first.
    • Glamis
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Tumco ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Tumco is located in Imperial County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumco
    • Amos ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Amos is located in Imperial County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amos
    • Picacho
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Picacho is located in Imperial County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Picacho
    • Ogilby ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Ogilby is located in Imperial County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ogilby
    • Palo Verde
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Felicity
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • La Paz County (AZ)
    • Cibola
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Cibola is located in La Paz County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cibola
  • Yuma County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Inperial Gables, with the one closest to Inperial Gables listed first.
    • Martinez Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Martinez Lake is located in Yuma County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinez Lake
    • Castle Dome Landing
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Castle Dome Landing is located in Yuma County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Dome Landing
    • Fishers Landing
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Fishers Landing is located in Yuma County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fishers Landing
    • Steam
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Steam is located in Yuma County (AZ)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steam

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

Cemeteries Near Inperial Gables ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Inperial Gables.

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 Inperial Gables - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Hedges Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hedges Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hedges Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<2> to the northwest of Winterhaven.
    • The Hedges Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hedges Protestant Cemetery
    • Tumco Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8019 <3>
  • West Neighborhood Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Neighborhood Cemetery
    • The West Neighborhood Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hedges Catholic Cemetery
  • Picacho Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Picacho Mine Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Ogilby Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Inperial Gables:

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>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- Inperial Gables) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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.