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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 Mayfair (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 Mayfair. 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 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.

Mayfair is located in 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 Mayfair. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Mayfair:

  • Kern County     (The home county of Mayfair)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mayfair, with the one closest to Mayfair listed first.
    • Edison
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Fuller Acres
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Fuller Acres is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fuller Acres
    • East Bakersfield
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • East Bakersfield is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bakersfield
      • Former names for East Bakersfield:
      • Kern City
      • Sumner
    • Kayandee
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Kayandee is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kayandee
    • Lamont
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Oil City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Oil City is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil City
    • Weedpatch
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Weedpatch is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weedpatch
    • Bakersfield
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Oildale
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Oildale is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oildale
    • Alameda
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Alameda is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alameda
    • Pumpkin Center
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Pumpkin Center is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
    • Venola
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Venola is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venola
    • Oil Junction
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Oil Junction is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Junction

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

Cemeteries Near Mayfair ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mayfair.

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 Mayfair - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Hillcrest Memorial Park
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Union Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Union Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Bakersfield.
    • The Union Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bakersfield Memorial Cemetery
    • Historic Union Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8414 <2>
  • Home of Peace Jewish Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Greenlawn Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Greenlawn Southwest Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • South Kern Cemetery District
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Bakersfield National Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Fickert Family Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Engle Family Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Shafter Memorial Park
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Cesar E. Chavez National Monument
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Rankin Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Tejon Indian Settlement Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Williams Gravesite
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Old Havilah Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Havilah Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Havilah Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Havilah
      • The Old Havilah Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Havilah Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1982323 <2>

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

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

  • Bakersfield
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Rosedale ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Rosedale is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
  • Bealville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Bealville is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bealville
  • Caliente
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Lerdo
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Lerdo is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerdo
  • Rowen
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Rowen is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowen
  • Keene
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Girard ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Girard is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girard
  • Havilah
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Havilah is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havilah
  • Woody
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Tehachapi
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Mayfair ...

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 113 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mayfair.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mayfair, 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 Mayfair.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Mayfair:

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>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.
<3>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- Mayfair) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Mayfair, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.