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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 Santa Nella Village (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 Santa Nella Village. 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.

Name Variations for Santa Nella Village ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Santa Nella Village: Santa Nella Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 and 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.

Santa Nella Village is located in Merced County.

To see how the shape of California's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Merced County: Fresno, Madera, Mariposa, San Benito, Santa Clara & Stanislaus.

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

  • Merced County     (The home county of Santa Nella Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Santa Nella Village, with the one closest to Santa Nella Village listed first.
    • Santa Nella
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Volta
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volta
      • Volta is located in Merced County
    • Trent
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent
      • Trent is located in Merced County
    • Los Banos
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Abbato ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Abbato have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbato
      • Abbato is located in Merced County
    • Gustine
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Stevinson
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Dos Palos
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • South Dos Palos
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Santa Rita Park
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Hilmar
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Livingston
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Delhi
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Santa Nella Village, with the one closest to Santa Nella Village listed first.
    • Oro Loma ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Loma
      • Oro Loma is located in Fresno County
    • Mercey Hot Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mercey Hot Springs
      • Mercey Hot Springs is located in Fresno County
      • Former name for Mercey Hot Springs:
      • Mercy Hot Springs
  • San Benito County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Santa Nella Village, with the one closest to Santa Nella Village listed first.
    • Dunneville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunneville
      • Dunneville is located in San Benito County
    • Hollister
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Ridgemark
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ridgemark
      • Ridgemark is located in San Benito County
    • Tres Pinos
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Paicines
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Santa Clara County
    • Bell Station
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Station
      • Bell Station is located in Santa Clara County
      • Bell Station has also been known as:
      • Bell's Station
  • Stanislaus County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Santa Nella Village, with the one closest to Santa Nella Village listed first.
    • Newman
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newman
      • Newman is located in Stanislaus County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,702 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newman <1>
    • Crows Landing
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Patterson
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Turlock
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Turlock
      • Turlock is located in Stanislaus County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 73,059 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Turlock <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Santa Nella Village ...

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 44 newspapers that have been published in the area around Santa Nella Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Santa Nella Village, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Santa Nella Village.

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 websites either 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 Santa Nella Village:

Cemeteries Near Santa Nella Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Santa Nella Village.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • San Joaquin Valley National Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Los Banos Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Los Banos Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Los Banos.
    • The Los Banos Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Los Banos District Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Los Banos Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8133 <4>
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Stevinson Sunnyside Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stevinson Sunnyside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stevinson Sunnyside Cemetery
  • Hills Ferry Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • South Hilmar Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Hilmar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Hilmar Cemetery
  • Dos Palos Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • North Hilmar Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Calvary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calvary Cemetery
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Calvary Sacred Heart Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • IOOF Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Turlock Memorial Park
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Paicines Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Winton Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Winton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Winton.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winton Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8453 <4>

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.<5>

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

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

  • Volta
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volta
    • Volta is located in Merced County
  • Ingomar
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ingomar have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingomar
    • Ingomar is located in Merced County
  • Linora ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Linora have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linora
    • Linora is located in Merced County
  • Los Banos
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Gustine
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Newman
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newman
    • Newman is located in Stanislaus County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 11,702 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Newman <1>
  • Bell Station
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Station
    • Bell Station is located in Santa Clara County
    • Bell Station has also been known as:
    • Bell's Station
  • Crows Landing
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Dos Palos
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Livingston
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Arena
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Arena have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arena
    • Arena is located in Merced County
  • Delhi
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Hollister
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Tres Pinos
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Atwater
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Santa Nella Village. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Merced County: www.co.merced.ca.us/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>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- Santa Nella Village) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Santa Nella Village. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.0979, Longitude: -121.0159    
<4>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.
<5>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 Santa Nella Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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