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Introduction ...

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

We've added Little Dixie to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Little Dixie, 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 Little Dixie (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 Little Dixie. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Little Dixie is historic, it would have been located within present day Kern 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 Kern County: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare & Ventura.

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

  • Kern County     (The home county of Little Dixie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Dixie, with the one closest to Little Dixie listed first.
    • Armistead
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Armistead is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armistead
    • Freeman ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Freeman is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
    • Saltdale ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Saltdale is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saltdale
    • Sageland ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Sageland is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sageland
    • Cantil
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Garlock
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Garlock is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garlock
    • Inyokern
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • China Lake Acres
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • China Lake Acres is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Lake Acres
    • Onyx
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Claraville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Claraville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Claraville
    • Weldon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Ridgecrest
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Bella Vista
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Bella Vista is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bella Vista
  • Inyo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Dixie, with the one closest to Little Dixie listed first.
    • Pearsonville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Pearsonville is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsonville
    • Linnie ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Linnie is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linnie
    • Narka ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Narka is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narka
    • Little Lake ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • San Bernardino County
  • Tulare County
    • South Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • South Lake is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lake

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

Cemeteries Near Little Dixie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Dixie.

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 Little Dixie - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Josie Bishop Gravesite
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Sageland Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Garlock - Goler Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garlock - Goler Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Garlock - Goler Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Garlock
    • The Garlock - Goler Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Benson Canyon Cemetery
    • Goler Cemetery
    • Goler Mine Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2432257 <4>
  • Mt. Owens Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Onyx Indian Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • 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 <4>
  • Cottage Grove Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Roger McGavin Gravesite
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Pauls Place Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Rand District Community Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rand District Community Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Rand District Community Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Johannesburg
    • The Rand District Community Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Johannesburg Cemetery
    • Rand District Cemetery
    • Randsburg Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #685739 <4>
  • Desert Memorial Park
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • California City Memorial Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Williams Gravesite
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Kern River Valley Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • 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<5> the communities of Wofford Heights and Kernville.  The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<3> 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 <4>
    • Palmer Family Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Keyesville Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Freeman ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Freeman is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freeman
  • Onyx
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Weldon
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Havilah
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Havilah is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havilah
  • Kernville
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Little Dixie ...

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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Dixie.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Little Dixie, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Little Dixie.

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 Little Dixie:

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 Little Dixie, 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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Little Dixie) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.
<5>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.