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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Rugg. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Rugg to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Rugg, please Contact Us.

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 Rugg (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 Rugg. 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 doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Rugg is historic, it would have been located within present day Fresno 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 Fresno County: Inyo, Kings, Madera, Merced, Mono, San Benito & Tulare.

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

  • Fresno County     (The home county of Rugg)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rugg, with the one closest to Rugg listed first.
    • Floyd
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Floyd is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Floyd
    • Rolinda
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Rolinda is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rolinda
    • Kerman
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Raco
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Raco is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raco
    • Biola
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Pratton
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Pratton is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratton
    • Barstow
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Barstow is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barstow
    • West Park
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Herndon
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Herndon is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
    • Highway City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Highway City is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highway City
    • Muscatel
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Muscatel is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscatel
    • Raisin City
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Calwa
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Calwa is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calwa
  • Kings County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rugg, with the one closest to Rugg listed first.
    • Hub
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Hub is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hub
    • Hardwick
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Hardwick is located in Kings County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hardwick
  • Madera County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rugg, with the one closest to Rugg listed first.
    • La Vina
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • La Vina is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Vina
    • Parkwood
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Parkwood is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkwood
    • Parksdale
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Parksdale is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parksdale
    • Madera
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Bonadelle Ranchos - Madera Ranchos
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Madera Acres
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Madera Acres is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madera Acres
    • Berenda
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Berenda is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berenda
    • Millerton ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Millerton is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millerton
    • Lincoln ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Lincoln is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lincoln
    • Chowchilla
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Rugg ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rugg.

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 Rugg - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Fresno Memorial Gardens
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Bethany Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Peters Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Belmont Memorial Park
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Masis Ararat Armenian Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Fresno County Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Ararat Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Beth Israel Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (28 more) ...
    • Liberty Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Raisin City Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Washington Colony Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)

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.

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

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

  • Herndon
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Herndon is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Herndon
  • Muscatel
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Muscatel is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muscatel
  • La Vina
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • La Vina is located in Madera County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for La Vina
  • Easton
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Fresno
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Oleander
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Oleander is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oleander
  • Malaga
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Malaga is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malaga
  • Caruthers
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Lone Star
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Lone Star is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
  • Fowler
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Riverdale
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Wildflower
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Wildflower is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildflower
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Selma
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Selma is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Selma
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 24,370 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Selma <2>
    • Sanger
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Lillis ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Lillis is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lillis

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

Newspapers Published in Rugg ...

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 119 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rugg.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rugg, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rugg.

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 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 Rugg:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Rugg, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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 from Point A (ie- Rugg) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.