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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 Rocky Hill (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 Rocky Hill. 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.

Rocky Hill is located in Calaveras 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 Calaveras County: Alpine, Amador, San Joaquin, Stanislaus & Tuolumne.

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

  • Calaveras County     (The home county of Rocky Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rocky Hill, with the one closest to Rocky Hill listed first.
    • Murphys
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Douglas Flat
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Cedar Vista
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Cedar Vista is located in Calaveras County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Vista
    • Forest Meadows
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Forest Meadows is located in Calaveras County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest Meadows
    • Vallecito
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Sheep Ranch
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Cave City
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Cave City is located in Calaveras County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cave City
    • Avery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Hathaway Pines
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Altaville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Angels Camp
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Angels City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Angels City is located in Calaveras County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angels City
    • Angels
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Angels is located in Calaveras County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Angels
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,963 people
  • Amador County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rocky Hill, with the one closest to Rocky Hill listed first.
    • Electra ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Electra is located in Amador County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Electra
    • Pioneer
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Jackson
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine Grove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Volcano
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Martell
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Sutter Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Amador City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Camanche Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Camanche Village is located in Amador County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camanche Village
    • Drytown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Fiddletown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Ione
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Ione is located in Amador County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ione
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,326 people
      • Former names for Ione:
      • Bedbug
      • Freeze Out
      • Hardscrabble
      • Ione City
      • Ione Valley
      • Jone City
      • Jone Valley
      • Rickeyville
      • Woosterville
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ione <1>
  • San Joaquin County
    • Bellota
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Bellota is located in San Joaquin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellota
  • Stanislaus County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rocky Hill, with the one closest to Rocky Hill listed first.
    • Knights Ferry
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • East Oakdale
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • East Oakdale is located in Stanislaus County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Oakdale
  • Tuolumne County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rocky Hill, with the one closest to Rocky Hill listed first.
    • Columbia
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Columbia Village
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Columbia Village is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia Village
    • Martinez
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Martinez is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinez
    • Squabbletown
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Squabbletown is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squabbletown
    • Tuttletown
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Tuttletown is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuttletown
    • Cedar Ridge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Cedar Ridge is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Ridge
    • Phoenix Lake - Cedar Ridge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Rawhide
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Rawhide is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rawhide
    • East Sonora
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • East Sonora is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sonora
    • Greenley Oaks
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Greenley Oaks is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenley Oaks
    • Sonora
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jamestown
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Peaceful Valley
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Peaceful Valley is located in Tuolumne County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaceful Valley

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

Cemeteries Near Rocky Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rocky Hill.

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 Rocky Hill - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Briseno Ranch Burial Ground
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Vallecito Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Altaville Protestant Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lode Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lode Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lode Cemetery is located in Altaville.
  • Altaville Catholic Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Altaville Catholic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Altaville Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Altaville.
    • The Altaville Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Angels Camp Catholic Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2269483 <2>
  • Catholic Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catholic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Catholic Cemetery is located in Altaville.
  • Mountain Ranch Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Altaville Serbian Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Catholic Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Public Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Shaws Flat Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Jewish Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (42 more) ...
    • Sonora Hebrew Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonora Hebrew Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sonora Hebrew Cemetery is located in Sonora.
      • The Sonora Hebrew Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Pioneer Jewish Cemetery
    • Catholic Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Sonora City Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)

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

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

  • Murphys
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Douglas Flat
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Sheep Ranch
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Angels Camp
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Avery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Mountain Ranch
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Columbia
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Tuttletown
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Tuttletown is located in Tuolumne County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuttletown
  • San Andreas
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Sonora
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Big Trees
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Big Trees is located in Calaveras County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Trees
  • Rail Road Flat
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Rocky Hill ...

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 33 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rocky Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rocky Hill, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rocky Hill.

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 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 Rocky Hill:

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 Rocky Hill, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Rocky Hill) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.