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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 Sierra Glen (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 Sierra Glen. 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 Sierra Glen ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Sierra Glen: Sierra Gln.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Sierra Glen)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sierra Glen, with the one closest to Sierra Glen listed first.
    • Badger
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Hartland
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Hartland is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
    • Grant Grove Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Grant Grove Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Grove Village
    • Stony Creek Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Stony Creek Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Village
    • Advance ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Advance is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
    • Kaweah
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Three Rivers
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • East Orosi
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • East Orosi is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Orosi
    • Woodlake Junction
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Woodlake Junction is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodlake Junction
    • Woodlake
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Wimp
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Wimp is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimp
    • Lemon Cove
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Cutler
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sierra Glen, with the one closest to Sierra Glen listed first.
    • Pinehurst
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Miramonte
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Dunlap
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Hume
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Yokuts
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Orange Cove
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Cedar Grove
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Cedar Grove is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
    • Piedra
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Gravesboro
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Gravesboro is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravesboro
    • Kanawyers ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Kanawyers is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawyers
    • Minkler
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Minkler is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minkler
    • Reedley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Parlier
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Sierra Glen ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sierra Glen.

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 Sierra Glen - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Squaw Valley Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodlake Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Smith Mtn. Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Lone Oak Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • S D A Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Deep Creek Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Hazelton Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Reedley Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Visalia Public Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Visalia Public Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Visalia Public Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Visalia.
    • The Visalia Public Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Visalia Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #198468 <2>
  • Hughes Creek Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Acres Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (4 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.<3>

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

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

  • Auckland
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Auckland is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
  • Dunlap
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Advance ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Advance is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
  • Kaweah
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Three Rivers
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Yokuts
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Orosi
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Tokay
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Tokay is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tokay
  • Taurusa
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Taurusa is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taurusa
  • Monson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Monson is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monson
  • Yokohl
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Yokohl is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
  • Exeter
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Reedley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Farmersville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Visalia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Sierra Glen ...

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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sierra Glen.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sierra Glen, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sierra Glen.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Sierra Glen:

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 Sierra Glen, 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 from Point A (ie- Sierra Glen) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.