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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Stringtown. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Stringtown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Stringtown, please Contact Us.

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 Stringtown (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 Stringtown. 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 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Stringtown is historic, it would have been located within present day Trinity 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 Trinity County: Humboldt, Mendocino, Shasta, Siskiyou & Tehama.

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

  • Trinity County     (The home county of Stringtown)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stringtown, with the one closest to Stringtown listed first.
    • Carrville
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Carrville is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrville
    • Trinity Center
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • Minersville ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Minersville is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
    • Deadwood ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Deadwood is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
    • Lewiston
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Weaverville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Helena ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Helena is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
    • Junction City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Douglas City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Shasta County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stringtown, with the one closest to Stringtown listed first.
    • Lamoine
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Lamoine is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoine
      • Former names for Lamoine:
      • Slate Creek
      • Slatonis
    • Gibson ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Gibson is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
    • Pollard Flat
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Pollard Flat is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pollard Flat
    • Delta
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Delta is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
      • Former name for Delta:
      • Bayles
    • Vollmers
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Vollmers is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vollmers
    • Fisher ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Fisher is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fisher
    • Sims
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Sims is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
    • Flume ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Flume is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flume
    • Lakehead - Lakeshore
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Lakehead - Lakeshore is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakehead - Lakeshore
    • Pollock
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Pollock is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pollock
    • Antlers
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Antlers is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antlers
    • Lakehead
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Siskiyou County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stringtown, with the one closest to Stringtown listed first.
    • Callahan
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Cecilville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Cecilville is located in Siskiyou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecilville
    • Dunsmuir
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Cantara ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Cantara is located in Siskiyou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cantara
    • Shasta Springs
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Shasta Springs is located in Siskiyou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shasta Springs
    • Mount Shasta
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Sawyers Bar
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Etna
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Etna is located in Siskiyou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 706 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Etna <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Stringtown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stringtown.

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 Stringtown - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

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.

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

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

  • Carrville
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Carrville is located in Trinity County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrville
  • Trinity Center
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Minersville ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Minersville is located in Trinity County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minersville
  • Lamoine
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Lamoine is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lamoine
    • Former names for Lamoine:
    • Slate Creek
    • Slatonis
  • Delta
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Delta is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
    • Former name for Delta:
    • Bayles
  • Gibson ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Gibson is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibson
  • Sims
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Sims is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sims
  • Dedrick ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Dedrick is located in Trinity County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dedrick
  • Deadwood ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Deadwood is located in Trinity County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deadwood
  • Elmore ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Elmore is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmore
  • Lewiston
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • French Gulch
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Mabel ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Mabel is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabel
    • Cecilville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Cecilville is located in Siskiyou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cecilville
    • Weaverville
      (24 miles [38.6 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 Stringtown. See our List of 1890's Communities around Stringtown.

Newspapers Published in Stringtown ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stringtown.

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

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 Stringtown:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Stringtown, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stringtown) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.