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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 Trimmer (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 Trimmer. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Trimmer is located in Fresno 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 Fresno County: Inyo, Kings, Madera, Merced, Mono, San Benito & Tulare.

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

  • Fresno County     (The home county of Trimmer)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trimmer, with the one closest to Trimmer listed first.
    • Piedra
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Bretz Mill
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Bretz Mill is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bretz Mill
    • Tollhouse
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Pineridge
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
      • Pineridge is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pineridge
    • Yokuts
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Gravesboro
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Gravesboro is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravesboro
    • Sentinel ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Sentinel is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sentinel
    • Shaver Lake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Dora Belle
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Dora Belle is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora Belle
    • Meadow Lakes
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Meadow Lakes is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadow Lakes
    • Auberry
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Dunlap
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Minkler
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Minkler is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minkler
  • Madera County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trimmer, with the one closest to Trimmer listed first.
    • Millerton ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Millerton is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Millerton
    • North Fork
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • O'Neals
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Wishon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Wishon is located in Madera County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wishon
  • Nevada County
    • Cedar Crest
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Cedar Crest is located in Nevada County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Crest
  • Tulare County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Trimmer, with the one closest to Trimmer listed first.
    • Grant Grove Village
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Grant Grove Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grant Grove Village
    • East Orosi
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • East Orosi is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Orosi
    • Orosi
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Sultana
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Badger
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Dinuba
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Hartland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Hartland is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hartland
    • Cutler
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Wimp
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Wimp is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wimp
    • Yettem
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • London
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • London is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for London
    • Stony Creek Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Stony Creek Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stony Creek Village

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

Cemeteries Near Trimmer ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Trimmer.

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 Trimmer - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Watts Valley Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Hughes Creek Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Tollhouse Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Hazelton Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Squaw Valley Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Academy Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Acres Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Big Sandy Rancheria Tribal Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Redbank Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Auberry Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Sanger Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Winchell Cove Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchell Cove Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Winchell Cove Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Friant.
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Winchell Cove Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Bethel Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Clovis Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)

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.<3>

While we didn't find Trimmer in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Trimmer.

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

  • Tollhouse
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Yokuts
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Sentinel ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Sentinel is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sentinel
  • Letcher ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Letcher is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Letcher
  • Dunlap
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Auberry
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Sanger
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Reedley
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Tokay
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Tokay is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tokay
  • Orosi
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Auckland
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Auckland is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auckland
  • Lone Star
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lone Star is located in Fresno County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Star
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Fresno
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Malaga
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Malaga is located in Fresno County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malaga
    • Fowler
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Trimmer ...

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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Trimmer.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Trimmer, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Trimmer.

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 Trimmer:

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>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 Trimmer, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Trimmer) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.