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 Rancho Del Puerto (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 Rancho Del Puerto. 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 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.
Rancho Del Puerto is located in Stanislaus 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 Stanislaus County: Alameda, Calaveras, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin & Santa Clara.
Below are the counties that are near Rancho Del Puerto. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rancho Del Puerto:
- Stanislaus County (The home county of Rancho Del Puerto)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rancho Del Puerto, with the one closest to Rancho Del Puerto listed first.
- Patterson
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Crows Landing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Westley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Grayson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Grayson is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayson
- Bret Harte
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Bret Harte is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bret Harte
- Riverdale Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Riverdale Park is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverdale Park
- Tuolumne City ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Tuolumne City is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuolumne City
- Newman
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Bystrom
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bystrom is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bystrom
- Ceres
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Keyes
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Shackelford
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Shackelford is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shackelford
- Merced County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rancho Del Puerto, with the one closest to Rancho Del Puerto listed first.
- Hilmar
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Gustine
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Stevinson
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Delhi
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Ballico
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Livingston
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Cressey
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Winton
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Santa Nella Village
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Santa Nella
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Arundel ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Arundel is located in Merced County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arundel
- Atwater
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- San Joaquin County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rancho Del Puerto, with the one closest to Rancho Del Puerto listed first.
- Vernalis
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Ripon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Ripon is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,774 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ripon <1>
- Alba
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Alba is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alba
- Escalon
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Atlanta
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Atlanta is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Atlanta
- Manteca
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Lyoth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Lyoth is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyoth
- Five Corners
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Five Corners is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Corners
- Banta
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Wainwright Village
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Wainwright Village is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wainwright Village
- Carnegie ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Carnegie is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carnegie
- Ellis ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Ellis is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ellis
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rancho Del Puerto, see our County-by-County Page for Rancho Del Puerto.
Cemeteries Near Rancho Del Puerto ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rancho Del Puerto.
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 Rancho Del Puerto - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rancho Del Puerto covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rancho Del Puerto, with the one closest to Rancho Del Puerto listed first.
- Patterson Cemetery District
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Grayson Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hills Ferry Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- North Hilmar Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- South Hilmar Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Turlock Memorial Park
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Stevinson Sunnyside Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- St. Stanislaus Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Denair Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Lakewood Memorial Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Woodcolony Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodcolony Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Woodcolony Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Modesto.
- Cottonwood Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Ripon Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Brichetto Tomb
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brichetto Tomb
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Brichetto Tomb is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the south of Tracy.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7862 <2>
- Burwood Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
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 Rancho Del Puerto in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rancho Del Puerto.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Rancho Del Puerto, with the one closest to Rancho Del Puerto listed first.
- Crows Landing
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Westley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Grayson
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Grayson is located in Stanislaus County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grayson
- Newman
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Keyes
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Ceres
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Turlock
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Modesto
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Gustine
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Salida
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Delhi
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Vernalis
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (14 more) ...
- Linora ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Linora is located in Merced County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linora
- Ripon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Ripon is located in San Joaquin County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 16,774 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ripon <1>
- Ingomar
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Ingomar is located in Merced County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingomar
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rancho Del Puerto. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rancho Del Puerto.
Newspapers Published in Rancho Del Puerto ...
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 87 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rancho Del Puerto.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rancho Del Puerto, 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 Rancho Del Puerto.
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 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 Rancho Del Puerto:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Stanislaus County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Merced County
- San Joaquin 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> | 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 from Point A (ie- Rancho Del Puerto) 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 Rancho Del Puerto, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |