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Introduction ...

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

We've added Tatlatunne to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Tatlatunne, 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 Tatlatunne (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 Tatlatunne. 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 hospitals and doctors 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 Tatlatunne is historic, it would have been located within present day Del Norte 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 Del Norte County: Humboldt, Siskiyou, Curry (OR) & Josephine (OR).

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

  • Del Norte County     (The home county of Tatlatunne)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tatlatunne, with the one closest to Tatlatunne listed first.
    • Crescent City
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Bertsch - Oceanview
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bertsch - Oceanview. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bertsch - Oceanview
      • Bertsch - Oceanview is located in Del Norte County
    • Hiouchi
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Fort Dick
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Smith River
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Gasquet
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Klamath
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Curry County (OR)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tatlatunne, with the one closest to Tatlatunne listed first.
    • Brookings
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Harbor
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harbor have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harbor
      • Harbor is located in Curry County (OR)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Harbor <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Tatlatunne ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tatlatunne.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tatlatunne, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tatlatunne.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Tatlatunne:

Cemeteries Near Tatlatunne ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tatlatunne.

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

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

  • Brother Jonathan Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brother Jonathan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brother Jonathan Cemetery
  • 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
  • Indian Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 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
  • Oceanview Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Oceanview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Oceanview Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pioneer Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Oceanview Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2329733 <6>
  • Van Pelt Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Van Pelt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Van Pelt Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39524 <6>
  • Old Brookings Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Brookings Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Brookings Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2329739 <6>
  • William James Ward Memorial Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the William James Ward Memorial Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Brookings (OR).
    • The William James Ward Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
    • W.J. Ward Memorial Cemetery
    • Ward Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the William James Ward Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39536 <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 Tatlatunne in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tatlatunne.

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

  • Crescent City
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Smith River
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Gasquet
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Requa
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Requa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Requa
    • Requa is located in Del Norte County

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

The official website for Del Norte County: www.co.del-norte.ca.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 Tatlatunne, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Tatlatunne) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Tatlatunne. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 41.7568, Longitude: -124.2284       In this case, the coordinates for Tatlatunne have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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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