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Introduction ...

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

We've added Swedes Flat to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Swedes Flat, 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 Swedes Flat (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 Swedes Flat. 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 Swedes Flat ...

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.

  • A typical abbreviation for Swedes Flat: Swedes Flt.
  • While the name of this community is Swedes Flat, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Swedes Flat may originally have been Swede's Flat.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Swedes Flat might be written as Swede Flat.

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 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 Swedes Flat is historic, it would have been located within present day Butte 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 Butte County: Colusa, Glenn, Plumas, Sutter, Tehama & Yuba.

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

  • Butte County     (The home county of Swedes Flat)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Swedes Flat, with the one closest to Swedes Flat listed first.
    • Robinson Mill
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robinson Mill
      • Robinson Mill is located in Butte County
    • Bangor
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
    • South Fork ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Fork
      • South Fork is located in Butte County
    • Evansville ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Evansville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evansville
      • Evansville is located in Butte County
    • Forbestown
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Bidwell Bar ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bidwell Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bidwell Bar
      • Bidwell Bar is located in Butte County
    • Palermo
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Bidwell ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bidwell have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bidwell
      • Bidwell is located in Butte County
    • Lynchburg ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lynchburg. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lynchburg
      • Lynchburg is located in Butte County
    • Longs Bar ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Longs Bar. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Longs Bar
      • Longs Bar is located in Butte County
    • Oroville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • South Oroville
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Oroville have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Oroville
      • South Oroville is located in Butte County
  • Nevada County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Swedes Flat, with the one closest to Swedes Flat listed first.
    • Birchville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Birchville
      • Birchville is located in Nevada County
    • Bridgeport
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
      • Bridgeport is located in Nevada County
    • North San Juan
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Lake Wildwood
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lake Wildwood
      • Lake Wildwood is located in Nevada County
    • Newtown
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newtown
      • Newtown is located in Nevada County
    • Penn Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Rough and Ready
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Bitney Corner
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bitney Corner
      • Bitney Corner is located in Nevada County
    • North Columbia
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Columbia have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Columbia
      • North Columbia is located in Nevada County
    • Nevada City Rancheria
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nevada City Rancheria have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada City Rancheria
      • Nevada City Rancheria is located in Nevada County
    • Grass Valley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Nevada City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Plumas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Swedes Flat, with the one closest to Swedes Flat listed first.
    • La Porte
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Little Grass Valley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Grass Valley
      • Little Grass Valley is located in Plumas County
    • Bucks Lake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bucks Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bucks Lake
      • Bucks Lake is located in Plumas County
  • Santa Cruz County
  • Sierra County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Swedes Flat, with the one closest to Swedes Flat listed first.
    • Brandy City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brandy City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brandy City
      • Brandy City is located in Sierra County
    • Goodyears Bar
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Forest
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forest
      • Forest is located in Sierra County
    • Queen City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Queen City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Queen City
      • Queen City is located in Sierra County
    • Alleghany
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Downieville
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Sutter County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Swedes Flat, with the one closest to Swedes Flat listed first.
    • Live Oak
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Live Oak
      • Live Oak is located in Sutter County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,048 people
    • Pennington
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington
      • Pennington is located in Sutter County
    • Yuba City
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Tierra Buena
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tierra Buena have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tierra Buena
      • Tierra Buena is located in Sutter County
    • South Yuba City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for South Yuba City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Yuba City
      • South Yuba City is located in Sutter County
    • Bogue
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bogue
      • Bogue is located in Sutter County
    • Sutter
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Yuba County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Swedes Flat, with the one closest to Swedes Flat listed first.
    • Rackerby
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Brownsville
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Challenge
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Oregon House
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Loma Rica
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loma Rica
      • Loma Rica is located in Yuba County
    • Dobbins
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bullards Bar ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bullards Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullards Bar
      • Bullards Bar is located in Yuba County
    • Iowa City
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Iowa City have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iowa City
      • Iowa City is located in Yuba County
    • Foster Bar ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Foster Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Foster Bar
      • Foster Bar is located in Yuba County
    • Garden Valley ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garden Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garden Valley
      • Garden Valley is located in Yuba County
    • Browns Valley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Strawberry Valley
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Swedes Flat ...

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 Swedes Flat.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Swedes Flat, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Swedes Flat.

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 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 Swedes Flat:

Cemeteries Near Swedes Flat ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Swedes Flat.

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

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

  • Upham Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Upham Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Upham Cemetery
  • Oak Grove Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Bangor Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bangor Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Bangor.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bangor Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2220275 <7>
  • Brownsville Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Brownsville Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Honcut Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Memorial Park
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Memorial Park
  • Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Cemetery
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
  • Thompson Flat Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thompson Flat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thompson Flat Cemetery
  • Peoria Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Peoria Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Peoria Cemetery
  • Continue List   (54 more) ...
    • Oroville Cemetery
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oroville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oroville Cemetery
    • Oregon City Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Browns Valley Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Browns Valley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Browns Valley Cemetery

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

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

  • Hurleton
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hurleton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hurleton
    • Hurleton is located in Butte County
  • Bangor
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Brownsville
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Wyandotte
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wyandotte have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wyandotte
    • Wyandotte is located in Butte County
  • Enterprise ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Enterprise have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enterprise
    • Enterprise is located in Butte County
  • Forbestown
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Oregon House
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Palermo
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Dobbins
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Oroville
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Honcut
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Bullards Bar ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bullards Bar have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullards Bar
    • Bullards Bar is located in Yuba County
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Clipper Mills
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Honcut
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Honcut have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Honcut
      • Honcut is located in Yuba County
    • Browns Valley
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)

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

The official website for Butte County: www.buttecounty.net/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/

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 Swedes Flat, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>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.
<6>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- Swedes Flat) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Swedes Flat. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.4466, Longitude: -121.3747       In this case, the coordinates for Swedes Flat have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<7>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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