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Introduction ...

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

We've added Johnsondale to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Johnsondale, 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 Johnsondale (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 Johnsondale. 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 and hospitals 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 Johnsondale is historic, it would have been located within present day Tulare 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 Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Johnsondale)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnsondale, with the one closest to Johnsondale listed first.
    • Roads End ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Roads End is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roads End
      • Former name for Roads End:
      • Pascoe's Pack Station
      • Roads End has also been known as:
      • Roads End Resort
    • Ponderosa
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Ponderosa is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa
    • California Hot Springs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Flat
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Pine Flat is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Flat
    • Cedar Slope
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Slope is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Slope
    • Sugarloaf Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Sugarloaf Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarloaf Village
    • Camp Nelson
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Panorama Heights
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Panorama Heights is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panorama Heights
    • Poso Park
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Poso Park is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poso Park
    • Soda Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Soda Springs is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Springs
    • Posey
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Globe
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Globe is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • Kern County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Johnsondale, with the one closest to Johnsondale listed first.
    • Rogersville ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Rogersville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersville
    • Alta Sierra
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Alta Sierra is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Sierra
    • Kernville
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Shirley Meadows
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Shirley Meadows is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Meadows
    • Wofford Heights
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Glennville
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Isabella ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Isabella is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella
    • Keyesville ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Keyesville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyesville
      • Former names for Keyesville:
      • Hogeye
      • Keysville
    • Mountain Mesa
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Woody
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Lake Isabella
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Bella Vista
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Bella Vista is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bella Vista

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

Cemeteries Near Johnsondale ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Johnsondale.

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

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

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

  • Tule River Indian Reservation Upper Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Tule River Indian Reservation Lower Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Galley Mtn. Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Kern River Valley Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kern River Valley Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Kern River Valley Cemetery is located between<4> the communities of Wofford Heights and Kernville.  The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<5> to the northeast of Wofford Heights.
    • The Kern River Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Old Kernville Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8092 <3>
  • Crabtree Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Tailholt Boot Hill Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • White River Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Blue Mtn. Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Mtn. Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Blue Mtn. Cemetery is located outside and to the northeast of Woody.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7859 <3>
  • Weringer Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Keyesville Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Palmer Family Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Pauls Place Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Onyx Indian Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • 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 <3>

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

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

  • Kernville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Globe
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Globe is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • White River ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • White River is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
  • Milo
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • Woody
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Weldon
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Onyx
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Plano
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Plano is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
  • Porterville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Terra Bella
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Johnsondale ...

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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Johnsondale.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Johnsondale, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Johnsondale.

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 Johnsondale:

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 Johnsondale, 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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Wofford Heights and Kernville. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<5>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- Johnsondale) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.