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Introduction ...

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

We've added Millham City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Millham City, 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 Millham City (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 Millham City. 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 Millham City is historic, it would have been located within present day Kings 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 Kings County: Fresno, Kern, Monterey, San Luis Obispo & Tulare.

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

  • Kings County     (The home county of Millham City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Millham City, with the one closest to Millham City listed first.
    • Kettleman City
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Avenal
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Avenal is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Avenal
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 13,362 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Avenal <2>
    • Stratford
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Vanguard
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Vanguard is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vanguard
    • Lemoore
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Lemoore is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemoore
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 26,331 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemoore <2>
    • Corcoran
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Armona
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Hub
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Hub is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub
    • Home Garden
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Home Garden is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Garden
    • Hanford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Hanford is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 58,352 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hanford <2>
    • Hardwick
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Hardwick is also located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardwick
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Millham City, with the one closest to Millham City listed first.
    • Huron
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Coalinga
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Five Points
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Lanare
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Lanare is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lanare
    • Parkfield Junction
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Parkfield Junction is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkfield Junction
    • Riverdale
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Kern County
    • Kecks Corner
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Kecks Corner is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kecks Corner
  • Monterey County
  • San Luis Obispo County
    • Cholame
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Tulare County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Millham City, with the one closest to Millham City listed first.
    • Waukena
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Alpaugh
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Millham City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Millham City.

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 Millham City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Pleasant Valley Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the south of Lemoore.
    • The Santa Rosa Rancheria Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Tachi Indian Cemetery
    • Tachi Yokut Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2152019 <3>
  • Warthan Canyon Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Taylor Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Lemoore Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Rhoads Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Parkfield Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Lakeside Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Grangeville Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Corcoran Memorial Park
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Hanford Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...

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

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

  • Huron
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Parkfield
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Cholame
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Annette
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Annette is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annette
  • Hanford
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hanford is also located in Kings County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanford
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 58,352 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hanford <2>
  • Riverdale
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Millham City ...

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 63 newspapers that have been published in the area around Millham City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Millham City, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Millham City.

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 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 Millham City:

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 Millham City, 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 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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Millham City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.