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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 Sunnyside Estates (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 Sunnyside Estates. 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 Sunnyside Estates ...

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 have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Sunnyside Estates: Sunnyside Ests.

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.

Sunnyside Estates is located in Riverside 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 Riverside County: La Paz (AZ), Imperial, Orange, San Bernardino & San Diego.

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

  • Riverside County     (The home county of Sunnyside Estates)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunnyside Estates, with the one closest to Sunnyside Estates listed first.
    • Indio
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indio
      • Indio is located in Riverside County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 91,919 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Indio <1>
    • Bermuda Dunes
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Coachella
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Palm Desert Country
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Palm Desert Country have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Desert Country
      • Palm Desert Country is located in Riverside County
    • La Quinta
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Sandy Korner
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sandy Korner
      • Sandy Korner is located in Riverside County
    • Indian Wells
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Thermal
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Palm Desert
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Rancho Mirage
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Martinez
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martinez
      • Martinez is located in Riverside County
    • Thousand Palms
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Cathedral City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Imperial County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunnyside Estates, with the one closest to Sunnyside Estates listed first.
    • Desert Shores
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Desert Shores have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Shores
      • Desert Shores is located in Imperial County
    • Coolidge Springs
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coolidge Springs
      • Coolidge Springs is located in Imperial County
    • Salton Sea Beach
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salton Sea Beach
      • Salton Sea Beach is located in Imperial County
  • San Bernardino County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sunnyside Estates, with the one closest to Sunnyside Estates listed first.
    • Panorama Heights
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panorama Heights
      • Panorama Heights is located in San Bernardino County
    • Joshua Tree
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Yucca Valley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Morongo Valley
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Sunnyside Estates ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sunnyside Estates.

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

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

  • Coachella Valley Public Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coachella Valley Public Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Coachella Valley Public Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Coachella.
    • The Coachella Valley Public Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Coachella Valley Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7914 <3>
  • Toro Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Toro Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Toro Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Martinez Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Martinez Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Martinez Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Torres Martinez Reservation Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Desert Memorial Park
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Palm Springs District Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palm Springs District Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Palm Springs District Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jane Augustine Patencio Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 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 Sunnyside Estates in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sunnyside Estates.

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

Newspapers Published in Sunnyside Estates ...

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 73 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sunnyside Estates.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Sunnyside Estates:

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

The official website for Riverside County: www.co.riverside.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>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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sunnyside Estates) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sunnyside Estates. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7011, Longitude: -116.2483       In this case, the coordinates for Sunnyside Estates have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Sunnyside Estates, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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