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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 Rincon Del Diablo (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 Rincon Del Diablo. 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 doctors 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.

Rincon Del Diablo is located in San Diego 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 San Diego County: Imperial, Orange & Riverside.

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

  • San Diego County     (The home county of Rincon Del Diablo)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rincon Del Diablo, with the one closest to Rincon Del Diablo listed first.
    • Escondido
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Valley Center
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • San Marcos
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Hidden Meadows
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Hidden Meadows is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Meadows
    • Rancho Bernardo
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Lawrence Welk Resort Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake San Marcos
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Lake San Marcos is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake San Marcos
    • Poway
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Poway is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poway
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 49,246 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Poway <1>
    • Fairbanks Ranch
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Fairbanks Ranch is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbanks Ranch
    • Rancho Santa Fe
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Pauma Valley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Ramona
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Riverside County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rincon Del Diablo, with the one closest to Rincon Del Diablo listed first.
    • Rainbow Canyon Village
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Aguanga
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Lake Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Lake Village is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Village
    • Temecula
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Murrieta Hot Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Murrieta Hot Springs is located in Riverside County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Murrieta Hot Springs

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

Cemeteries Near Rincon Del Diablo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rincon Del Diablo.

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 Rincon Del Diablo - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Oak Hill Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • San Marcos Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Valley Center Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Dearborn Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Olivenhain Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Memory Gardens Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • St. Bartholomew Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Pauma Valley Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Carmel Valley Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Pala Tribal Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (18 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 Rincon Del Diablo in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rincon Del Diablo.

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

  • Escondido
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • San Pasqual
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • San Pasqual is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Pasqual
  • Valley Center
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Twin Oaks
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Twin Oaks is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Oaks
  • San Marcos
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Buena
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Buena is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena
  • Poway
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Poway is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poway
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 49,246 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Poway <1>
  • Buena Vista
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Buena Vista is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buena Vista
  • Vista
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Vista is located in San Diego County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 100,636 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Vista <1>
  • Leucadia
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Encinitas
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bonsall
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Del Mar
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Pala
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Mesa Grande ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Mesa Grande is located in San Diego County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Grande

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

Newspapers Published in Rincon Del Diablo ...

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 86 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rincon Del Diablo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rincon Del Diablo, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rincon Del Diablo.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Rincon Del Diablo:

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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rincon Del Diablo) 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 Rincon Del Diablo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.