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Introduction ...

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

We've added Talus to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Talus, 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 Talus (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 Talus. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Talus is historic, it would have been located within present day Inyo 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 Inyo County: Fresno, Kern, Mono, San Bernardino, Tulare, Clark (NV), Esmeralda (NV) & Nye (NV).

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

  • Inyo County     (The home county of Talus)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Talus, with the one closest to Talus listed first.
    • Dunmovin
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunmovin
      • Dunmovin is located in Inyo County
      • Dunmovin has also been known as:
      • Dun Movin
      • Dun Moving
      • Dunmoving
    • Sykes ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sykes
      • Sykes is located in Inyo County
    • Coso Junction
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coso Junction
      • Coso Junction is located in Inyo County
    • Coso ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coso have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coso
      • Coso is located in Inyo County
    • Haiwee
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Haiwee have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haiwee
      • Haiwee is located in Inyo County
      • Haiwee has also been known as:
      • Enchanted Lake Village
    • Little Lake ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Grant
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant
      • Grant is located in Inyo County
    • Narka ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Narka. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narka
      • Narka is located in Inyo County
    • Olancha
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Cartago
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cartago
      • Cartago is located in Inyo County
    • Linnie ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Linnie have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Linnie
      • Linnie is located in Inyo County
    • Pearsonville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pearsonville
      • Pearsonville is located in Inyo County
    • Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Kern County
  • Tulare County
    • Roads End ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roads End
      • Roads End is located in Tulare County
      • Former name for Roads End:
      • Pascoe's Pack Station
      • Roads End has also been known as:
      • Roads End Resort

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

Newspapers Published in Talus ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Talus.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Talus, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Talus.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Talus:

Cemeteries Near Talus ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Talus.

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

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

  • Little Lake Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Little Lake Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Little Lake Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Little Lake
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Little Lake Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2425875 <6>
  • McKellips Gravesite
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Mt. Owens Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Darwin Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Cerro Gordo / Swansea Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Cerro Gordo / Swansea Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cerro Gordo / Swansea Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Keeler.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cerro Gordo / Swansea Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217260 <6>
  • Keeler Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Keeler Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Keeler Cemetery is located outside and to the southeast of Keeler.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Keeler Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2296914 <6>

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

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

  • Olancha
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Darwin
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Keeler
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)

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

The official website for Inyo County: www.inyocounty.us/

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 Talus, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Talus) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Talus. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0866, Longitude: -117.9729    
<6>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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