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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 Lucia (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 Lucia. 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 hospitals 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.

Lucia is located in Monterey 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 Monterey County: Fresno, Kings, San Benito, San Luis Obispo & Santa Cruz.

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

  • Monterey County     (The home county of Lucia)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lucia, with the one closest to Lucia listed first.
    • Gorda
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gorda
      • Gorda is located in Monterey County
    • Posts
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Posts
      • Posts is located in Monterey County
    • Jolon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Big Sur
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Martinus Corner
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinus Corner
      • Martinus Corner is located in Monterey County
    • Lockwood
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Greenfield
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • King City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • San Lucas
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Soledad
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Lucia ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lucia.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lucia, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lucia.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Lucia:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

Cemeteries Near Lucia ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lucia.

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 Lucia covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Lockwood Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lockwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lockwood Cemetery
  • King City Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the King City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the King City Cemetery
  • Greenfield Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Greenfield Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenfield Cemetery

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

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

  • Posts
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Posts
    • Posts is located in Monterey County
  • Jolon
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Lockwood
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • King City
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Bryson
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bryson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryson
    • Bryson is located in Monterey County
  • Metz
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Metz have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metz
    • Metz is located in Monterey County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Lucia. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Monterey County: www.co.monterey.ca.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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 from Point A (ie- Lucia) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lucia. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0207, Longitude: -121.5502    
<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>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 Lucia, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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