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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Torrey Crossing (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 Torrey Crossing. 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 Torrey Crossing ...

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 occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Torrey Crossing: Torrey Xing.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Torrey Crossing is located in Humboldt County.

To see how the shape of California's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Humboldt County: Del Norte, Mendocino, Siskiyou & Trinity.

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

  • Humboldt County     (The home county of Torrey Crossing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Torrey Crossing, with the one closest to Torrey Crossing listed first.
    • Dinsmore
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Dinsmore is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dinsmore
    • Janes Place
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Janes Place is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janes Place
    • Bridgeville
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Lone Star Junction ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Lone Star Junction is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star Junction
    • Maple Creek
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Maple Creek is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Creek
    • Willow Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Larabee
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Larabee is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larabee
    • Kneeland
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Blocksburg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Pepperwood
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Pepperwood is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pepperwood
    • Redcrest
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Carlotta
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Trinity County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Torrey Crossing, with the one closest to Torrey Crossing listed first.
    • Hyampom
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • McClellan Place
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • McClellan Place is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McClellan Place
    • Burnt Ranch
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Trinity Village
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Trinity Village is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity Village
    • Salyer
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Big Bar
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Hayfork
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Peanut
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Peanut is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peanut
    • Denny ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Denny is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denny
    • Helena ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Helena is located in Trinity County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helena
    • Ruth
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Zenia
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Cemeteries Near Torrey Crossing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Torrey Crossing.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Torrey Crossing - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Torrey Crossing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Bridgeville Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Hayfork Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • William Barnwell Sr. Memorial Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Hydesville Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for IOOF Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the IOOF Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Hydesville.
    • The IOOF Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Hydesville IOOF Cemetery
  • Town Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Trinity County Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trinity County Cemetery
    • The Trinity County Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Helena - Bagdad Cemetery
  • Spear Family Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Masons & IOOF Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Atwell Family Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Bull Creek Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

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

  • Hyampom
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Bridgeville
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Burnt Ranch
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Maple Creek
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Maple Creek is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maple Creek
  • Big Bar
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Hayfork
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Pepperwood
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Pepperwood is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pepperwood
  • Englewood
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Englewood is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Englewood
  • Blocksburg
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Fruitland
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Fruitland is located in Humboldt County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitland
  • Denny ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Denny is located in Trinity County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denny
  • Korbel
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Freshwater
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Freshwater is located in Humboldt County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freshwater
    • Hydesville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Rio Dell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Torrey Crossing ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Torrey Crossing.

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

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 websites either 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 Torrey Crossing:

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 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.
<3>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Freshwater Corners and Freshwater. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Torrey Crossing) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<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 Torrey Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.