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 Jims Camp (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 Jims Camp. 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 Jims Camp ...
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.
While the name of this community is Jims Camp, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Jims Camp may originally have been Jim's Camp.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Jims Camp might be written as Jim Camp.
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.
Jims Camp is located in Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County: Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Jackson (OR), Josephine (OR) & Klamath (OR).
Below are the counties that are near Jims Camp. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Jims Camp:
- Siskiyou County (The home county of Jims Camp)
- The following are listed by their distance from Jims Camp, with the one closest to Jims Camp listed first.
- Hornbrook
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ager
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Ager is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ager
- Yreka
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Yreka is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yreka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,503 people
- Yreka has also been known as:
- Yreka City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yreka <2>
- Montague
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Bogus ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
- Grenada
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Little Shasta
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
- Klamath River
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Big Springs
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Big Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs
- Fort Jones
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Beswick
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Beswick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beswick
- Gazelle
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Jackson County (OR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Jims Camp, with the one closest to Jims Camp listed first.
- Colestin
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Colestin is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colestin
- Ashland
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Talent
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Shale City
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Shale City is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shale City
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Jims Camp, see our County-by-County Page for Jims Camp.
Cemeteries Near Jims Camp ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jims Camp.
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 Jims Camp - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Jims Camp covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Jims Camp, with the one closest to Jims Camp listed first.
- Henley - Hornbrook Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Montague Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Kanaka Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Julien Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Little Shasta Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Hill Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Hill Dunn Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Gazelle Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Foulke Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Horse Creek Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Pinehurst Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (12 more) ...
- Wells Family Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Mountain View Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Mt. View Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Jims Camp in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Jims Camp.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Jims Camp, with the one closest to Jims Camp listed first.
- Henley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Henley is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henley
- Hornbrook
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ager
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Ager is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ager
- Yreka
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Yreka is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yreka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,503 people
- Yreka has also been known as:
- Yreka City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yreka <2>
- Montague
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Gottsville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Gottsville is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gottsville
- Grenada
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Little Shasta
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
- Bogus ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
- Walker
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Walker is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
- Gregory
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Gregory is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
- Colestin
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Colestin is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colestin
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Steinman
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Steinman is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinman
- Oakbar
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Oakbar is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oakbar
- Fort Jones
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Jims Camp. See our List of 1890's Communities around Jims Camp.
Newspapers Published in Jims Camp ...
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 61 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jims Camp.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jims Camp, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jims Camp.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Jims Camp:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Siskiyou County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
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> | 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> | 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 Jims Camp, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <5> | 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- Jims Camp) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |