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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 Sugarloaf Village (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 Sugarloaf Village. 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 Sugarloaf Village ...

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.

Another variation: Sugar Loaf Village.

  • A typical abbreviation for Sugarloaf Village: Sugarloaf Vlg. (in Canada, 'Vlge.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Sugarloaf Village)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sugarloaf Village, with the one closest to Sugarloaf Village listed first.
    • Poso Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Poso Park is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poso Park
    • Panorama Heights
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Panorama Heights is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panorama Heights
    • Posey
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Pine Flat
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Pine Flat is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Flat
    • California Hot Springs
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Roads End ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Roads End is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roads End
      • Former name for Roads End:
      • Pascoe's Pack Station
      • Roads End has also been known as:
      • Roads End Resort
    • White River ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • White River is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
    • Soda Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Soda Springs is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Springs
    • South Lake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • South Lake is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lake
    • Ponderosa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Ponderosa is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa
    • Camp Nelson
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Globe
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Globe is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
    • Cedar Slope
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Slope is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Slope
  • Kern County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sugarloaf Village, with the one closest to Sugarloaf Village listed first.
    • Glennville
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Alta Sierra
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Alta Sierra is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Sierra
    • Shirley Meadows
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Shirley Meadows is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Meadows
    • Rogersville ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Rogersville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersville
    • Kernville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Wofford Heights
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Woody
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Petersburg ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Petersburg is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
      • Petersburg has also been known as:
      • Greenhorn
    • Isabella ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Isabella is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella
    • Keyesville ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Keyesville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyesville
      • Former names for Keyesville:
      • Hogeye
      • Keysville
    • Lake Isabella
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Silver City ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Silver City is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
    • Bodfish
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Sugarloaf Village ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sugarloaf Village.

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 Sugarloaf Village - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sugarloaf Village, with the one closest to Sugarloaf Village 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.<5>

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

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

  • White River ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • White River is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
  • Kernville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Woody
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Globe
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Globe is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • Havilah
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Havilah is located in Kern County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havilah
  • Weldon
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Onyx
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Terra Bella
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Plano
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Plano is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
  • Porterville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Milo
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo

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

Newspapers Published in Sugarloaf Village ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sugarloaf Village.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sugarloaf Village, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sugarloaf Village.

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 Sugarloaf Village:

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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Wofford Heights and Kernville. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Sugarloaf Village) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Sugarloaf Village, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.