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Introduction ...

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

We've added Kyan to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Kyan, 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 Kyan (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 Kyan. 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 Kyan is historic, it would have been located within present day Kern County.

To see how the shape of California's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Kern County: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare & Ventura.

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

  • Kern County     (The home county of Kyan)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kyan, with the one closest to Kyan listed first.
    • San Emidio ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for San Emidio have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Emidio
      • San Emidio is located in Kern County
    • Dustin Acres
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dustin Acres have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dustin Acres
      • Dustin Acres is located in Kern County
    • Valley Acres
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valley Acres
      • Valley Acres is located in Kern County
    • Maricopa
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • South Taft
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Taft
      • South Taft is located in Kern County
    • Ford City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ford City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford City
      • Ford City is located in Kern County
    • Taft Heights
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft Heights
      • Taft Heights is located in Kern County
    • Taft
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Tupman
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Joyful ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Joyful. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyful
      • Joyful is located in Kern County
      • Joyful has also been known as:
      • Joyfull
    • Midoil
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midoil
      • Midoil is located in Kern County
    • Alameda
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alameda
      • Alameda is located in Kern County
  • Santa Barbara County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kyan, with the one closest to Kyan listed first.
    • Cuyama
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuyama
      • Cuyama is located in Santa Barbara County
    • Ventucopa
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventucopa
      • Ventucopa is located in Santa Barbara County
    • New Cuyama
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Kyan ...

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 96 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kyan.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kyan, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kyan.

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 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 Kyan:

Cemeteries Near Kyan ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kyan.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kyan, with the one closest to Kyan 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 Kyan in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kyan.

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

  • Warren ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warren have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
    • Warren is located in Kern County
  • Rosedale ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rosedale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
    • Rosedale is located in Kern County
  • Bakersfield
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Lerdo
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lerdo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerdo
    • Lerdo is located in Kern County

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

The official website for Kern County: www.co.kern.ca.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/

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 Kyan, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Kyan) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kyan. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.1252, Longitude: -119.2626       In this case, the coordinates for Kyan have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.
<7>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Lebec and Grapevine. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.




 

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