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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 Perrys Corner (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 Perrys Corner. 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.

Name Variations for Perrys Corner ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Perrys Corner: Perrys Cor. (or less commonly used: Perrys Crn.)
  • While the name of this community is Perrys Corner, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Perrys Corner may originally have been Perry's Corner.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Perrys Corner might be written as Perry Corner.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Perrys Corner is located in Imperial 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 Imperial County: Yuma (AZ), Riverside & San Diego.

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

  • Imperial County     (The home county of Perrys Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Perrys Corner, with the one closest to Perrys Corner listed first.
    • Holtville
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Date City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Date City
      • Date City is located in Imperial County
    • Watermans Corner
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Watermans Corner
      • Watermans Corner is located in Imperial County
    • Alamorio
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alamorio have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alamorio
      • Alamorio is located in Imperial County
    • El Centro
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Imperial
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Brawley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Heber
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Calexico
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Westmorland
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Seeley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Amos ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amos
      • Amos is located in Imperial County

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

Newspapers Published in Perrys Corner ...

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 38 newspapers that have been published in the area around Perrys Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Perrys Corner, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Perrys Corner.

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 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 Perrys Corner:

Cemeteries Near Perrys Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Perrys Corner.

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

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

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Perrys Corner. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Imperial County: www.co.imperial.ca.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<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>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- Perrys Corner) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Perrys Corner. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.8617, Longitude: -115.3800       In this case, the coordinates for Perrys Corner have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.




 

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