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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Paige Bar (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 Paige Bar. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Paige Bar is located in Shasta 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 Shasta County: Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Tehama & Trinity.

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

  • Shasta County     (The home county of Paige Bar)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paige Bar, with the one closest to Paige Bar listed first.
    • Shasta
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Whiskeytown ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Whiskeytown is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiskeytown
      • Former names for Whiskeytown:
      • Blair
      • Franklin City
      • Schilling
      • Stella
      • Whiskey Creek
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whiskeytown <1>
    • Middletown ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Middletown is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middletown
    • Kilna ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Kilna is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilna
    • Waugh ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Waugh is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waugh
    • Keswick
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Keswick is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keswick
    • Oak Bottom ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Oak Bottom is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Bottom
    • Igo
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Centerville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Centerville is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
    • Fielding ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Fielding is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fielding
    • Iron Mountain ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Iron Mountain is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iron Mountain
    • Briggsville ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Briggsville is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggsville
      • Former name for Briggsville:
      • Moorestown
    • Horsetown ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Horsetown is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horsetown
      • Former names for Horsetown:
      • Clear Creek Diggings
      • One Horse Town
  • Tehama County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paige Bar, with the one closest to Paige Bar listed first.
    • Hooker
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Hooker is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
    • Bend
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Bend is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
    • Dales
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Dales is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dales
  • Trinity County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paige Bar, with the one closest to Paige Bar listed first.
    • Deadwood ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Deadwood is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
    • Lewiston
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Douglas City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Minersville ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Minersville is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
    • Weaverville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Trinity Center
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Junction City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Wildwood
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Paige Bar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Paige Bar.

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 Paige Bar - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Paige Bar, with the one closest to Paige Bar 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.<4>

While we didn't find Paige Bar in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Paige Bar.

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

  • Shasta
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Igo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Waugh ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Waugh is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waugh
  • Hart ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Hart is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hart
    • Hart has also been known as:
    • Hart Village
    • Hart's Camp
  • Copley ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Copley is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copley
    • Former name for Copley:
    • Motion
  • Ono
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Ono is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ono
  • Redding
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Buckeye
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
  • Girvan
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Girvan is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girvan
  • French Gulch
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Gas Point ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Gas Point is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gas Point
  • Olinda
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Olinda is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinda
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Kennett ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Kennett is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kennett
    • Deadwood ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Deadwood is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
    • Anderson
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Anderson is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,565 people
      • Former name for Anderson:
      • American Ranch
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anderson <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Paige Bar ...

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 57 newspapers that have been published in the area around Paige Bar.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Paige Bar, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Paige Bar.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Paige Bar:

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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Paige Bar) 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 Paige Bar, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.