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 Lowes Corner (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 Lowes Corner. 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 Lowes Corner ...
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.
- A typical abbreviation for Lowes Corner: Lowes Cor. (or less commonly used: Lowes Crn.)
- While the name of this community is Lowes Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Lowes Corner may originally have been Lowe's Corner.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Lowes Corner might be written as Lowe Corner.
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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.
Lowes Corner is located in 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 Lowes Corner. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lowes Corner:
- Tulare County (The home county of Lowes Corner)
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowes Corner, with the one closest to Lowes Corner listed first.
- Woodville
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Woodville is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Poplar
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Poplar is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
- Poplar has also been known as:
- Poplar - Cotton Center
- Tipton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Saucelito ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Saucelito is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saucelito
- Pixley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Porterville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Strathmore
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Tulare
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Tulare is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulare
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66,797 people
- Tulare has also been known as:
- Tulare City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulare <2>
- Loma
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Loma is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma
- Lindsay
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Gillete ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Gillete is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillete
- Terra Bella
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Kern County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowes Corner, with the one closest to Lowes Corner listed first.
- Delano
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Vinland
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Vinland is located in Kern County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinland
- McFarland
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
- Kings County
- The following are listed by their distance from Lowes Corner, with the one closest to Lowes Corner listed first.
- Corcoran
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Home Garden
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Home Garden is located in Kings County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Garden
- Hanford
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Armona
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Lowes Corner, see our County-by-County Page for Lowes Corner.
Cemeteries Near Lowes Corner ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lowes Corner.
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 Lowes Corner - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Lowes Corner covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lowes Corner, with the one closest to Lowes Corner listed first.
- Woodville Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Tipton - Pixley Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Tulare Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- St. Anne's Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Lindsay - Strathmore Public Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Vandalia Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Porterville Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Deep Creek Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Deep Creek Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Farmersville.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7933 <3>
- Visalia Public Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Visalia Public Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Visalia Public Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Visalia.
- The Visalia Public Cemetery has also been known as:
- Visalia Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #198468 <3>
- Corcoran Memorial Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Allensworth Historical Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Hamilton Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Lone Oak Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Delano - McFarland District Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delano - McFarland District Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Delano - McFarland District Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Delano.
- The Delano - McFarland District Cemetery has also been known as:
- North Kern Cemetery
- North Kern Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #640421 <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.<4>
While we didn't find Lowes Corner in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Lowes Corner.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Lowes Corner, with the one closest to Lowes Corner listed first.
- Woodville
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Woodville is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Tipton
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Poplar
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Poplar is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
- Poplar has also been known as:
- Poplar - Cotton Center
- Pixley
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Porterville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Tulare
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Tulare is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulare
- Population from the 2020 Census: 66,797 people
- Tulare has also been known as:
- Tulare City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulare <2>
- Lindsay
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Plano
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Plano is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
- Terra Bella
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Tagus
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Tagus is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tagus
- Exeter
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Farmersville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Continue List (11 more) ...
- Visalia
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Yokohl
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Yokohl is located in Tulare County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
- Goshen
(20 miles [32.2 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 Lowes Corner. See our List of 1890's Communities around Lowes Corner.
Newspapers Published in Lowes Corner ...
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 66 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lowes Corner.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lowes Corner, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lowes Corner.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Lowes Corner:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Tulare 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 Lowes Corner, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lowes Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |