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Introduction ...

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

We've added Lost Horse Mine to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lost Horse Mine, 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 Lost Horse Mine (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 Lost Horse Mine. 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 doctors and hospitals 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 Lost Horse Mine is historic, it would have been located within present day Riverside 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 Riverside County: La Paz (AZ), Imperial, Orange, San Bernardino & San Diego.

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

  • Riverside County     (The home county of Lost Horse Mine)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lost Horse Mine, with the one closest to Lost Horse Mine listed first.
    • Sky Valley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Indio
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indio
      • Indio is located in Riverside County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 91,919 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Indio <2>
    • Bermuda Dunes
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Thousand Palms
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Palm Desert Country
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Palm Desert Country have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Desert Country
      • Palm Desert Country is located in Riverside County
    • Coachella
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Indian Wells
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Sandy Korner
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Korner
      • Sandy Korner is located in Riverside County
    • Thermal
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Cactus City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cactus City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cactus City
      • Cactus City is located in Riverside County
    • Palm Desert
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Rancho Mirage
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Desert Hot Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • San Bernardino County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lost Horse Mine, with the one closest to Lost Horse Mine listed first.
    • Panorama Heights
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panorama Heights
      • Panorama Heights is located in San Bernardino County
    • Twentynine Palms
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • The Plaza
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Plaza
      • The Plaza is located in San Bernardino County
    • Joshua Tree
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Yucca Valley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Pioneertown
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Landers
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Morongo Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Lost Horse Mine ...

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 76 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lost Horse Mine.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lost Horse Mine, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lost Horse Mine.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Lost Horse Mine:

Cemeteries Near Lost Horse Mine ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lost Horse Mine.

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 Lost Horse Mine covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery
  • Twentynine Palms Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Mountain Valley Memorial Park
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mountain Valley Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain Valley Memorial Park
  • Desert Memorial Park
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Palm Springs District Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palm Springs District Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palm Springs District Cemetery
  • Coachella Valley Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coachella Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coachella Valley Cemetery
  • Toro Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Toro Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Toro Cemetery
  • Martinez Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Martinez Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Martinez Cemetery

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

The official website for Riverside County: www.co.riverside.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 Lost Horse Mine, 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 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.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Lost Horse Mine) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lost Horse Mine. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9409, Longitude: -116.1369    
<5>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.




 

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