RoadsideThoughts
A Gazetteer for the United States and Canada
Home >> State of California >> Tulare County >> Stoil >> Genealogy HelperIndex...










Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
California

The Commemorative Quarter for California





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 Stoil (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 Stoil. 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 southwest 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 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.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Stoil)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoil, with the one closest to Stoil listed first.
    • Allensworth ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Alpaugh
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Earlimart
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Pixley
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Tipton
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Saucelito ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saucelito have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saucelito
      • Saucelito is located in Tulare County
    • Waukena
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Woodville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
      • Woodville is located in Tulare County
    • Poplar
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
      • Poplar is located in Tulare County
      • Poplar has also been known as:
      • Poplar - Cotton Center
    • Richgrove
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Tulare
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulare
      • Tulare is located in Tulare County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 66,797 people
      • Tulare has also been known as:
      • Tulare City
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulare <1>
    • Ducor
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Kern County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoil, with the one closest to Stoil listed first.
    • Delano
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Vinland
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vinland have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinland
      • Vinland is located in Kern County
    • McFarland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Semitropic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Semitropic
      • Semitropic is located in Kern County
    • Wasco
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Famoso
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Famoso
      • Famoso is located in Kern County
    • Lost Hills
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Shafter
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Spicer City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spicer City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spicer City
      • Spicer City is located in Kern County
  • Kings County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stoil, with the one closest to Stoil listed first.
    • Corcoran
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Home Garden
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Garden
      • Home Garden is located in Kings County
    • Stratford
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Kettleman City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Stoil ...

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 Stoil.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stoil, 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 Stoil.

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 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 Stoil:

Cemeteries Near Stoil ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stoil.

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

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

  • Allensworth Historical Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Tipton - Pixley Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Delano - McFarland District Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Delano - McFarland District Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Delano.
    • The Delano - McFarland District Cemetery has also been known as:
    • North Kern Cemetery
    • North Kern Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Delano - McFarland District Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #640421 <4>
  • Corcoran Memorial Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Woodville Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Tulare Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tulare Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tulare Cemetery
  • Wasco Memorial Park
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Pomfret Memorial Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Lakeside Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Anne's Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Vandalia Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (9 more) ...
    • Porterville Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Porterville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Porterville Cemetery
    • Lindsay - Strathmore Public Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Calvary Cemetery
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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 Stoil in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Stoil.

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

  • Pixley
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Tipton
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Delano
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Woodville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
    • Woodville is located in Tulare County
  • Poplar
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
    • Poplar is located in Tulare County
    • Poplar has also been known as:
    • Poplar - Cotton Center
  • Tulare
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tulare
    • Tulare is located in Tulare County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 66,797 people
    • Tulare has also been known as:
    • Tulare City
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tulare <1>
  • Terra Bella
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Plano
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Plano have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
    • Plano is located in Tulare County
  • Porterville
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Tagus
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tagus have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tagus
    • Tagus is located in Tulare County
  • Lindsay
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Farmersville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Visalia
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Goshen
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Stoil. 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stoil) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Stoil. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.9180, Longitude: -119.4254       In this case, the coordinates for Stoil have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Stoil, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

Copyright 2024
All Rights Reserved

Thank you for visiting our website.

In closing, please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write: Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024