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Introduction ...

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

We've added Poloma to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Poloma, 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 Poloma (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 Poloma. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Poloma is historic, it would have been located within present day San Luis Obispo 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 San Luis Obispo County: Kern, Kings, Monterey, Santa Barbara & Ventura.

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

  • San Luis Obispo County     (The home county of Poloma)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Poloma, with the one closest to Poloma listed first.
    • Atascadero
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Santa Margarita
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Creston
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Templeton
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Linne
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Linne is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linne
    • El Paso de Robles
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • El Paso de Robles is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for El Paso de Robles
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 31,521 people
    • Paso Robles
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • San Luis Obispo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Oak Park
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Oak Park is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oak Park
    • Los Osos
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Morro Bay
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Morro Bay is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morro Bay
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,560 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morro Bay <2>
    • Cayucos
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Wellsona
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Wellsona is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellsona
  • Monterey County
  • San Mateo County

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

Cemeteries Near Poloma ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Poloma.

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 Poloma - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery is located in Atascadero.
    • The Atascadero Pine Mtn. Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Atascadero Cemetery
    • Pine Mtn. Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2154678 <3>
  • Santa Margarita Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Templeton Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Quintana Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Mission Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • San Luis Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Luis Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the San Luis Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of San Luis Obispo.
  • Sutcliffe Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutcliffe Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sutcliffe Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of San Luis Obispo.
  • Paso Robles District Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Los Osos Valley Memorial Park
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Cayucos - Morro Bay District Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Clark Memorial Park
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Adelaida Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Shandon Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Halcyon Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Santa Rosa Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 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.

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

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

  • Dove ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Dove is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dove
  • Santa Margarita
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Asuncion
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Asuncion is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Asuncion
  • Creston
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Templeton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Linne
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Linne is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linne
  • Paso Robles
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • San Luis Obispo
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Cayucos
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Edna
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Edna is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edna
  • Pozo
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Pozo is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pozo
  • Estrella
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Estrella is located in San Luis Obispo County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Adelaida
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Adelaida is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelaida
    • Miles
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Miles is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles
    • Reeds ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Reeds is located in San Luis Obispo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reeds

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

Newspapers Published in Poloma ...

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 64 newspapers that have been published in the area around Poloma.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Poloma, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Poloma.

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 Poloma:

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 Poloma, 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 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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Poloma) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.