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Introduction ...

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Paola is historic, it would have been located within present day Modoc 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 Modoc County: Lassen, Shasta, Siskiyou, Washoe (NV), Klamath (OR) & Lake (OR).

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

  • Modoc County     (The home county of Paola)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Paola, with the one closest to Paola listed first.
    • Alturas
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas
      • Alturas is located in Modoc County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,542 people
      • Former name for Alturas:
      • Dorrisville
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alturas <2>
    • McArthur
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McArthur have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McArthur
      • McArthur is located in Modoc County
    • Cantrall Mill ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Cantrall Mill. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantrall Mill
      • Cantrall Mill is located in Modoc County
    • Likely
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Canby
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Cedarville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Davis Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Lake City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Eagleville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Adin
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Lassen County

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

Cemeteries Near Paola ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Paola.

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

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

  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Alturas Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alturas Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Alturas Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Alturas.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1975553 <5>
  • Alturas Indian Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Centerville Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Centerville Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Centerville Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2540241 <5>
  • Likely Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Likely Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Likely Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Likely.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8111 <5>
  • Indian Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Canby Pioneer Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Canby Pioneer Cemetery
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Canby Pioneer Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Canby Pioneer Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<6> to the north of Canby.
    • The Canby Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Canby Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2305845 <5>
  • Cedarville Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • ISOT Family Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the ISOT Family Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the ISOT Family Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Canby.
    • The ISOT Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • In Search of Truth Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2550853 <5>
  • Lake City Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Davis Creek Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Eagleville Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Ash Valley Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ash Valley Cemetery
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Ash Valley Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2182397 <5>
    • Madeline Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Madeline Cemetery
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Madeline Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • The Madeline Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Madaline Cemetery
      • Madeleine Cemetery
      • Madieline Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2237969 <5>
    • Adin Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Adin Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Adin Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Adin.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7831 <5>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Paola ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Paola.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Paola, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Paola.

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 Paola:

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 Paola, 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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>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.
<5>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.
<6>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Paola) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Paola. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.4552, Longitude: -120.5286       In this case, the coordinates for Paola have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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