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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 Rawson (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 Rawson. 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 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 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.

Rawson is located in Tehama 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 Tehama County: Butte, Glenn, Mendocino, Plumas, Shasta & Trinity.

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

  • Tehama County     (The home county of Rawson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rawson, with the one closest to Rawson listed first.
    • Proberta
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Red Bluff
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Gerber
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Tehama
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Los Molinos
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Bend
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
      • Bend is located in Tehama County
    • Rancho Tehama Reserve
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rancho Tehama Reserve have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rancho Tehama Reserve
      • Rancho Tehama Reserve is located in Tehama County
    • Corning
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Dales
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dales
      • Dales is located in Tehama County
    • Hooker
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
      • Hooker is located in Tehama County
    • Vina
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Flournoy
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Glenn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rawson, with the one closest to Rawson listed first.
    • Capay
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Capay have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Capay
      • Capay is located in Glenn County
    • Orland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Hamilton City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Newville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newville
      • Newville is located in Glenn County
  • Shasta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rawson, with the one closest to Rawson listed first.
    • Cottonwood
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Battle Creek ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Battle Creek. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battle Creek
      • Battle Creek is located in Shasta County
    • Clarkville ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Clarkville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarkville
      • Clarkville is located in Shasta County
    • Balls Ferry ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Balls Ferry. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balls Ferry
      • Balls Ferry is located in Shasta County
    • Anderson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
      • Anderson is located in Shasta County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,565 people
      • Former name for Anderson:
      • American Ranch
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anderson <1>
    • Parkville ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Parkville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkville
      • Parkville is located in Shasta County
    • Olinda
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinda
      • Olinda is located in Shasta County
    • Fleaville ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fleaville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleaville
      • Fleaville is located in Shasta County
    • Happy Valley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happy Valley
      • Happy Valley is located in Shasta County
      • Former name for Happy Valley:
      • Oak
    • Latona ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Latona. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Latona
      • Latona is located in Shasta County
      • Former name for Latona:
      • New Town
    • Aiken Gulch ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Aiken Gulch. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aiken Gulch
      • Aiken Gulch is located in Shasta County
      • Former names for Aiken Gulch:
      • Camp Creek
      • Camp Gulch
    • Gas Point ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gas Point
      • Gas Point is located in Shasta County

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

Newspapers Published in Rawson ...

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 97 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rawson.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rawson, 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 Rawson.

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 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 Rawson:

Cemeteries Near Rawson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rawson.

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 Rawson covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Oak Hill Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Marys Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Marys Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Marys Cemetery
  • Tehama Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tehama Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tehama Cemetery
  • Corning Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Sunset Hill Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Vina Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Vina Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the southwest of Vina.
    • The Vina Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Carter Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vina Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7884 <5>
  • Kirkwood Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kirkwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirkwood Cemetery
  • Major Pierson B. Reading Family Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Cottonwood Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Cameron - Davis Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Lowrey Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Elmore Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Elmore Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Elmore Cemetery
  • Continue List   (23 more) ...
    • Pine Creek Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Creek Cemetery
    • Anderson Pioneer Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Paskenta Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Paskenta Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Paskenta Cemetery

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Rawson had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Proberta
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Red Bluff
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Tehama
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Richfield
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Richfield have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Richfield
    • Richfield is located in Tehama County
  • Henleyville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Henleyville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henleyville
    • Henleyville is located in Tehama County
  • Corning
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Vina
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Hooker
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
    • Hooker is located in Tehama County
  • Cottonwood
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Balls Ferry ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Balls Ferry. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balls Ferry
    • Balls Ferry is located in Shasta County
  • Paynes Creek
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Cana
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cana have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cana
    • Cana is located in Butte County
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Anderson
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
      • Anderson is located in Shasta County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,565 people
      • Former name for Anderson:
      • American Ranch
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anderson <1>
    • Paskenta
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Anita
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Anita have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anita
      • Anita is located in Butte County

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

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

The official website for Tehama County: www.co.tehama.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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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- Rawson) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rawson. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.1196, Longitude: -122.1969       In this case, the coordinates for Rawson have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Rawson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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