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Introduction ...

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

We've added Monola to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Monola, 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 Monola (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 Monola. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Monola is historic, it would have been located within present day Inyo 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 Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

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

  • Inyo County     (The home county of Monola)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monola, with the one closest to Monola listed first.
    • Zurich ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Zurich is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zurich
      • Zurich has also been known as:
      • Zurich Station
    • Big Pine
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Elna ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Elna is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elna
    • Fish Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Fish Springs is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fish Springs
      • Fish Springs has also been known as:
      • Tinemaha
      • Tinnemaha
    • Sage Flat
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Sage Flat is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sage Flat
    • Keough Hot Springs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Keough Hot Springs is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keough Hot Springs
    • Aberdeen Station ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Aberdeen Station is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Station
    • Glacier Lodge ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Glacier Lodge is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glacier Lodge
    • Aberdeen
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Aberdeen is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen
    • Wilkerson
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Wilkerson is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilkerson
    • Chrysopolis ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Chrysopolis is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chrysopolis
    • Bigelow ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Bigelow is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bigelow
  • Fresno County
    • Kanawyers ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Kanawyers is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawyers
  • Mono County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Monola, with the one closest to Monola listed first.
    • Chalfant Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Chalfant Valley is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalfant Valley
    • Mesa Camp
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Mesa Camp is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Camp

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

Cemeteries Near Monola ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Monola.

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

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

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

  • Woodman Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodman Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodman Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Big Pine.
    • The Woodman Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Woodman of the World Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2473277 <3>
  • Big Pine Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Pine Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Big Pine Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Big Pine.
    • The Big Pine Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Big Pine Crocker Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #730300 <3>
  • East Line Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Line Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the East Line Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Bishop.
    • The East Line Cemetery has also been known as:
    • East Line Street Cemetery
    • Line Street Cemetery
    • Masonic Cemetery
    • Odd Fellows & Masonic Cemetery
    • Oddfellows & Masonic Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7943 <3>
  • Sunland Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunland Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunland Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Bishop.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8387 <3>
  • West Line Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Line Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the West Line Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Bishop.
    • The West Line Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pioneer Cemetery
    • West Line Street Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8276 <3>
  • Camp Independence Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Independence Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Camp Independence Cemetery is located in Independence.
    • The Camp Independence Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Ft. Independence Cemetery
    • Indian Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217265 <3>
  • Old Independence Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Independence Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Manzanar Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

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

  • Zurich ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Zurich is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zurich
    • Zurich has also been known as:
    • Zurich Station
  • Big Pine
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Aberdeen
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Aberdeen is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen
  • Bishop
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Laws
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Laws is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Laws
    • Former name for Laws:
    • Bishop Depot
  • San Carlos ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • San Carlos is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Carlos
  • Independence
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Bend City ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Bend City is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend City
  • Kearsarge ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Kearsarge is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kearsarge
    • Former names for Kearsarge:
    • Citrus
    • Kearsarge Station
  • Round Valley
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Round Valley is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Valley
  • Manzanar ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Manzanar is located in Inyo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzanar
    • Manzanar has also been known as:
    • Manzanar Station

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

Newspapers Published in Monola ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Monola.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Monola, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Monola.

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 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 Monola:

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 Monola, 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>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.
<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- Monola) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.