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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 Pine Mountain Club (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 Pine Mountain Club. 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 Pine Mountain Club ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Pine Mountain Club: Pine Mtn. Club (or less commonly used: Pine Mntn. Club)

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Pine Mountain Club is located in Kern 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 Kern County: Inyo, Kings, Los Angeles, Monterey, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare & Ventura.

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

  • Kern County     (The home county of Pine Mountain Club)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Mountain Club, with the one closest to Pine Mountain Club listed first.
    • Lake of the Woods
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake of the Woods
      • Lake of the Woods is located in Kern County
    • Frazier Park
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Grapevine
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grapevine
      • Grapevine is located in Kern County
    • Lebec
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Wheeler Ridge
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Mettler
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • San Emidio ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for San Emidio have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Emidio
      • San Emidio is located in Kern County
    • Maricopa
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • South Taft
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Taft
      • South Taft is located in Kern County
    • Ford City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ford City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ford City
      • Ford City is located in Kern County
    • Taft Heights
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taft Heights
      • Taft Heights is located in Kern County
    • Taft
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Alameda
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alameda
      • Alameda is located in Kern County
  • Los Angeles County
  • Santa Barbara County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Mountain Club, with the one closest to Pine Mountain Club listed first.
    • Ventucopa
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventucopa
      • Ventucopa is located in Santa Barbara County
    • Cuyama
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cuyama
      • Cuyama is located in Santa Barbara County
    • New Cuyama
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Ventura County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pine Mountain Club, with the one closest to Pine Mountain Club listed first.
    • Meiners Oaks
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Meiners Oaks have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meiners Oaks
      • Meiners Oaks is located in Ventura County
    • Ojai
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ojai
      • Ojai is located in Ventura County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,587 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ojai <1>
    • Mira Monte
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Pine Mountain Club ...

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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pine Mountain Club.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Pine Mountain Club. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Pine Mountain Club and those printed in the larger area surrounding Pine Mountain Club.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3> of Pine Mountain Club.

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 either 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 Pine Mountain Club:

Cemeteries Near Pine Mountain Club ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pine Mountain Club.

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 Pine Mountain Club covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Ft. Tejon Military Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • West Side District Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Midway Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Nordhoff Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nordhoff Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nordhoff Cemetery
  • Ojai Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ojai Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ojai Cemetery
  • South Kern Cemetery District
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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.<6>

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

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

  • Matilija
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Matilija have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Matilija
    • Matilija is located in Ventura County
  • Warren ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warren have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
    • Warren is located in Kern County

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

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

The official website for Kern County: www.co.kern.ca.us/

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

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 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.
<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 from Point A (ie- Pine Mountain Club) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pine Mountain Club. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.8518, Longitude: -119.1651    
<4>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Lebec and Grapevine. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<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>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 Pine Mountain Club, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.









 

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