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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 Red Fir (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 Red Fir. 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 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.

Red Fir is located in Tulare 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 Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Red Fir)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Fir, with the one closest to Red Fir listed first.
    • Stony Creek Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Stony Creek Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Village
    • Advance ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Advance is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
    • Silver City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Silver City is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Hartland
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Hartland is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
    • Kaweah
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Three Rivers
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Badger
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Grant Grove Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Grant Grove Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Grove Village
    • Lemon Cove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodlake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Woodlake Junction
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Woodlake Junction is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlake Junction
    • Milo
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Milo is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Fir, with the one closest to Red Fir listed first.
    • Cedar Grove
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Hume
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Pinehurst
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Kanawyers ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Kanawyers is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawyers
    • Miramonte
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Dunlap
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Yokuts
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Orange Cove
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Inyo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Red Fir, with the one closest to Red Fir listed first.
    • Seven Pines ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Seven Pines is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Pines
    • Whitney Portal
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Whitney Portal is located in Inyo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney Portal
      • Former name for Whitney Portal:
      • Hunter Flat
      • Whitney Portal has also been known as:
      • Hunters Camp

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

Cemeteries Near Red Fir ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Red Fir.

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 Red Fir - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Woodlake Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Squaw Valley Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Lone Oak Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Advance ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Advance is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
  • Kaweah
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Three Rivers
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Auckland
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Auckland is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
  • Dunlap
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Yokohl
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Yokohl is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
  • Milo
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • Yokuts
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Taurusa
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Taurusa is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taurusa
  • Exeter
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Orosi
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Red Fir ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Red Fir.

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

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 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 Red Fir:

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>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 Red Fir, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Red Fir) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.