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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 Silver City (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 Silver City. 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 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 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.

Silver City is located in Tulare 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 Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Silver City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Silver City, with the one closest to Silver City listed first.
    • Advance ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
      • Advance is located in Tulare County
    • Three Rivers
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Kaweah
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Stony Creek Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stony Creek Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Village
      • Stony Creek Village is located in Tulare County
    • Milo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
      • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Hartland
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
      • Hartland is located in Tulare County
    • Lemon Cove
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Camp Nelson
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Cedar Slope
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Slope
      • Cedar Slope is located in Tulare County
    • Badger
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Grant Grove Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grant Grove Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Grove Village
      • Grant Grove Village is located in Tulare County
    • Ponderosa
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa
      • Ponderosa is located in Tulare County
  • Fresno County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Silver City, with the one closest to Silver City listed first.
    • Cedar Grove
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Grove
      • Cedar Grove is located in Fresno County
    • Kanawyers ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kanawyers
      • Kanawyers is located in Fresno County
    • Pinehurst
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hume
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Miramonte
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Inyo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Silver City, with the one closest to Silver City listed first.
    • Whitney Portal
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney Portal
      • Whitney Portal is located in Inyo County
      • Former name for Whitney Portal:
      • Hunter Flat
      • Whitney Portal has also been known as:
      • Hunters Camp
    • Seven Pines ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Pines
      • Seven Pines is located in Inyo County
    • Lone Pine Creek
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine Creek
      • Lone Pine Creek is located in Inyo County

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

Newspapers Published in Silver City ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Silver City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Silver City, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Silver City.

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 Silver City:

Cemeteries Near Silver City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Silver City.

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 Silver City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Crabtree Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Woodlake Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Hamilton Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hamilton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hamilton Cemetery
  • Tule River Indian Reservation Upper Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 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.<5>

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

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

  • Advance ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Advance
    • Advance is located in Tulare County
  • Three Rivers
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Kaweah
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Milo
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
  • Yokohl
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yokohl have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl
    • Yokohl is located in Tulare County
  • Auckland
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Auckland have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
    • Auckland is located in Tulare County
  • Globe
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Globe have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
    • Globe is located in Tulare County
  • Exeter
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Silver City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Silver City.

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

The official website for Tulare County: www.co.tulare.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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Silver City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Silver City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.4659, Longitude: -118.6474    
<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 Silver City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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