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Introduction ...

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

We've added Mock to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mock, 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 Mock (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 Mock. 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 doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Mock is historic, it would have been located within present day Inyo 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 Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

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

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

Cemeteries Near Mock ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mock.

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

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

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.

Mock itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Dolomite ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Tramway ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Tramway. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tramway
    • Tramway is located in Inyo County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Tramway
    • From Mock to Tramway
  • Swansea ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Alico ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Keeler
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Cerro Gordo ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Mount Whitney Station ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Lone Pine Station ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Lone Pine
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Owenyo ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Owenyo. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owenyo
    • Owenyo is located in Inyo County
    • Former name for Owenyo:
    • New Owenyo
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Owenyo
    • From Mock to Owenyo
  • Manzanar ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Manzanar. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzanar
    • Manzanar is located in Inyo County
    • Manzanar has also been known as:
    • Manzanar Station
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Manzanar
    • From Mock to Manzanar
  • Olancha
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
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    • Kearsarge ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Bend City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bend City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend City
      • Bend City is located in Inyo County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Bend City
      • From Mock to Bend City
    • San Carlos ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for San Carlos. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Carlos
      • San Carlos is located in Inyo County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to San Carlos
      • From Mock to San Carlos

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

Newspapers Published in Mock ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mock.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mock, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mock.

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 Mock:

The official website for Inyo County: www.inyocounty.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 Mock, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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- Mock) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mock. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.5437, Longitude: -117.9335       In this case, the coordinates for Mock have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Lone Pine and Independence. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.




 

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