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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 Quailwood (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 Quailwood. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

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

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

  • Kern County     (The home county of Quailwood)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Quailwood, with the one closest to Quailwood listed first.
    • Bakersfield
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
    • Greenacres
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Gosford
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Gosford is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gosford
    • Venola
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Venola is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Venola
    • Oil Junction
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Oil Junction is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil Junction
    • Rosedale ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Rosedale is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
    • Joyful ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Joyful is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Joyful
      • Joyful has also been known as:
      • Joyfull
    • Kayandee
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
      • Kayandee is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kayandee
    • Oildale
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Oildale is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oildale
    • East Bakersfield
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • East Bakersfield is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Bakersfield
      • Former names for East Bakersfield:
      • Kern City
      • Sumner
    • Pumpkin Center
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Pumpkin Center is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pumpkin Center
    • Oil City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Oil City is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oil City
    • Crome
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Crome is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crome
  • Tulare County

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

Cemeteries Near Quailwood ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Quailwood.

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

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

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

  • Home of Peace Jewish Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Union Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Union Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Union Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Bakersfield.
    • The Union Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bakersfield Memorial Cemetery
    • Historic Union Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8414 <2>
  • Greenlawn Southwest Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Greenlawn Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Hillcrest Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Shafter Memorial Park
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • South Kern Cemetery District
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Pomfret Memorial Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Engle Family Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • West Side District Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Bakersfield National Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Wasco Memorial Park
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wasco Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Wasco Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the west of Wasco.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1238237 <2>
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...

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.<4>

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

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

  • Bakersfield
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Rosedale ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Rosedale is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosedale
  • Lerdo
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Lerdo is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lerdo
  • Bealville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Bealville is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bealville
  • Caliente
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
  • Woody
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Warren ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Warren is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warren
  • Rowen
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Rowen is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowen

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

Newspapers Published in Quailwood ...

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 141 newspapers that have been published in the area around Quailwood.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Quailwood, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Quailwood.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Quailwood:

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Quailwood) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Quailwood, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.