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 Pierce (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 Pierce. 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.
Pierce is located in Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County: Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Jackson (OR), Josephine (OR) & Klamath (OR).
Below are the counties that are near Pierce. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pierce:
- Siskiyou County (The home county of Pierce)
- The following are listed by their distance from Pierce, with the one closest to Pierce listed first.
- Shasta Springs
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Shasta Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shasta Springs
- Cantara ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
- McCloud
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Mount Shasta
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Dunsmuir
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Weed
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Carrick
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Carrick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrick
- Algoma ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Algoma is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
- Edgewood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
- Cougar ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Cougar is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cougar
- Gazelle
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Big Springs
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Big Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs
- Shasta County
- The following are listed by their distance from Pierce, with the one closest to Pierce listed first.
- Castle Crags ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Castle Crags is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castle Crags
- Castella
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sweetbriar
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Sweetbriar is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweetbriar
- Conant ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Conant is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conant
- Flume ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Flume is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flume
- Sims
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sims is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
- Fisher ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Fisher is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
- Gibson ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Gibson is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
- Pollard Flat
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pollard Flat is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pollard Flat
- Big Bend
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Big Bend is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bend
- Former names for Big Bend:
- Elena
- Henderson
- Indian Springs
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Big Bend <1>
- Lamoine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Lamoine is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoine
- Former names for Lamoine:
- Slate Creek
- Slatonis
- Delta
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Delta is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
- Former name for Delta:
- Bayles
- Trinity County
- Carrville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Carrville is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrville
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Pierce, see our County-by-County Page for Pierce.
Cemeteries Near Pierce ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pierce.
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 Pierce - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pierce covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Pierce, with the one closest to Pierce listed first.
- Dunsmuir Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- McCloud Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Shasta Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Winema Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Arbaugh - Dunlap Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Foulke Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Gazelle Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Delta Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Delta Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Delta.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2291419 <2>
- Carrville Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cove Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Callahan Hayden Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
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.<3>
While we didn't find Pierce in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pierce.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Pierce, with the one closest to Pierce listed first.
- Mott
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Mott is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mott
- Cantara ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
- McCloud
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Dunsmuir
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Igerna
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- Igerna is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Igerna
- Sims
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Sims is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
- Edgewood
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Edgewood is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edgewood
- Gibson ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Gibson is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
- Lamoine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Lamoine is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoine
- Former names for Lamoine:
- Slate Creek
- Slatonis
- Gazelle
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Delta
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Delta is located in Shasta County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
- Former name for Delta:
- Bayles
- Carrville
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Carrville is located in Trinity County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrville
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Pierce. See our List of 1890's Communities around Pierce.
Newspapers Published in Pierce ...
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 17 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pierce.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pierce, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pierce.
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 Pierce:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Siskiyou County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Shasta County
- Trinity County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
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> | 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 Pierce, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | 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- Pierce) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |