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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 Redwood Corral (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 Redwood Corral. 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 southwest 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 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 west 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.

Redwood Corral 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 Redwood Corral. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Redwood Corral:

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Redwood Corral)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Redwood Corral, with the one closest to Redwood Corral listed first.
    • Soda Springs
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Soda Springs is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Springs
    • California Hot Springs
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Pine Flat
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Pine Flat is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Flat
    • Roads End ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Roads End was located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roads End
      • Former name for Roads End:
      • Pascoe's Pack Station
      • Roads End has also been known as:
      • Roads End Resort
    • Sugarloaf Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Sugarloaf Village is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarloaf Village
    • Camp Nelson
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Ponderosa
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Ponderosa is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa
    • Poso Park
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Poso Park is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poso Park
    • Cedar Slope
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Slope is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Slope
    • Globe
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Globe is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
    • Panorama Heights
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Panorama Heights is also located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panorama Heights
    • Posey
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Springville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Kern County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Redwood Corral, with the one closest to Redwood Corral listed first.
    • Glennville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Alta Sierra
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Alta Sierra is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Sierra
    • Rogersville ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Rogersville was located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersville
    • Shirley Meadows
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Shirley Meadows is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Meadows
    • Kernville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Woody
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Wofford Heights
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Isabella ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Isabella was located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella
    • Keyesville ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Keyesville was located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyesville
    • Petersburg ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Petersburg was located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
      • Petersburg has also been known as:
      • Greenhorn
    • Lake Isabella
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Mountain Mesa
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Bodfish
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Redwood Corral ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Redwood Corral.

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 Redwood Corral - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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 Redwood Corral in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Redwood Corral.

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

  • Globe
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Globe is also located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • White River ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • White River was located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
  • Milo
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Milo is also located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • Plano
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Plano is also located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
  • Kernville
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Woody
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Porterville
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Terra Bella
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Poplar
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Poplar is also located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
    • Poplar has also been known as:
    • Poplar - Cotton Center
  • Lindsay
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Lindsay is also located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lindsay
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,908 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lindsay <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Redwood Corral ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Redwood Corral.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Redwood Corral, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Redwood Corral.

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 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 Redwood Corral:

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 Redwood Corral, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Redwood Corral) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.