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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 Sunfair (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 Sunfair. 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 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.

Sunfair is located in San Bernardino 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 San Bernardino County: La Paz (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside & Clark (NV).

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

  • San Bernardino County     (The home county of Sunfair)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunfair, with the one closest to Sunfair listed first.
    • Panorama Heights
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panorama Heights
      • Panorama Heights is located in San Bernardino County
    • Joshua Tree
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Landers
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • The Plaza
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The Plaza
      • The Plaza is located in San Bernardino County
    • Twentynine Palms
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Yucca Valley
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Pioneertown
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Morongo Valley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Riverside County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunfair, with the one closest to Sunfair listed first.
    • Lost Horse Mine ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lost Horse Mine. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost Horse Mine
      • Lost Horse Mine is located in Riverside County
    • Sky Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Desert Hot Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • North Palm Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Garnet
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garnet
      • Garnet is located in Riverside County
    • Thousand Palms
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Bonnie Bell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Bell
      • Bonnie Bell is located in Riverside County
    • White Water
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Water have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Water
      • White Water is located in Riverside County
    • Palm Springs
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Bermuda Dunes
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Palm Desert Country
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Palm Desert Country have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Desert Country
      • Palm Desert Country is located in Riverside County
    • Cathedral City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Sunfair ...

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 56 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunfair.

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

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 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 Sunfair:

Cemeteries Near Sunfair ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sunfair.

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

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

  • Mountain Valley Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mountain Valley Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain Valley Memorial Park
  • Twentynine Palms Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chemehuevi Indian Cemetery
  • Desert Memorial Park
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Palm Springs District Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palm Springs District Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palm Springs District Cemetery

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

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

The official website for San Bernardino County: www.sbcounty.gov/

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>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Sunfair) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunfair. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1639, Longitude: -116.2472       In this case, the coordinates for Sunfair have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024