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 Snowden (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 Snowden. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.
Snowden is located in Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County: Del Norte, Humboldt, Modoc, Shasta, Trinity, Jackson (OR), Josephine (OR) & Klamath (OR).
Below are the counties that are near Snowden. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Snowden:
- Siskiyou County (The home county of Snowden)
- The following are listed by their distance from Snowden, with the one closest to Snowden listed first.
- Ager
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ager is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ager
- Montague
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Little Shasta
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
- Hornbrook
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Yreka
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Yreka is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yreka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,503 people
- Yreka has also been known as:
- Yreka City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yreka <1>
- Bogus ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
- Grenada
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Big Springs
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Big Springs is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Springs
- Beswick
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Beswick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beswick
- Gazelle
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Klamath River
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Cougar ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cougar is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cougar
- Fort Jones
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jackson County (OR)
- The following are listed by their distance from Snowden, with the one closest to Snowden listed first.
- Colestin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Colestin is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colestin
- Ashland
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Snowden, see our County-by-County Page for Snowden.
Cemeteries Near Snowden ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Snowden.
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 Snowden - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Snowden covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Snowden, with the one closest to Snowden listed first.
- Montague Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Little Shasta Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Henley - Hornbrook Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Julien Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Kanaka Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
- Gazelle Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Foulke Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
- Arbaugh - Dunlap Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Way Cemetery
- The Way Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting and respect the owner's property rights.
- We're sorry, but we do not have contact information for the owner.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Way Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Way Cemetery is located 14 miles [22.5 km]<2> to the southwest of Keno (OR).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39545 <3>
- Pinehurst Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Winema Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Hill Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hill Dunn Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Lakeview Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Snowden in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Snowden.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Snowden, with the one closest to Snowden listed first.
- Montague
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Ager
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)
- Ager is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ager
- Little Shasta
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Little Shasta is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Shasta
- Henley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Henley is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Henley
- Yreka
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Yreka is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yreka
- Population from the 2020 Census: 7,503 people
- Yreka has also been known as:
- Yreka City
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yreka <1>
- Hornbrook
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Grenada
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Bogus ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Bogus is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogus
- Gottsville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Gottsville is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gottsville
- Gazelle
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Beswick
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Beswick is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beswick
- Walker
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Walker is located in Siskiyou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Gregory
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Gregory is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gregory
- Colestin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Colestin is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colestin
- Steinman
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
- Steinman is located in Jackson County (OR)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steinman
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Snowden. See our List of 1890's Communities around Snowden.
Newspapers Published in Snowden ...
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 60 newspapers that have been published in the area around Snowden.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Snowden, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Snowden.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Snowden:
- Websites specific to California
- Pages specific to Siskiyou County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for California
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> | 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- Snowden) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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> | 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 Snowden, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |