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Introduction ...

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

We've added Upper Town to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Upper Town, 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 Upper Town (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 Upper Town. 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 Upper Town is historic, it would have been located within present day Mono 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 Mono County: Alpine, Fresno, Inyo, Madera, Tuolumne, Douglas (NV), Esmeralda (NV), Lyon (NV) & Mineral (NV).

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

  • Mono County     (The home county of Upper Town)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Upper Town, with the one closest to Upper Town listed first.
    • Masonic ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
      • Masonic is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masonic
    • Chemung Mine ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
      • Chemung Mine is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chemung Mine
    • Belfort ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Belfort is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfort
    • Bridgeport
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Bodie ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Bodie is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie
    • Chinatown ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Chinatown is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinatown
    • Willow Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Willow Springs is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Springs
    • Dog Town ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Dog Town is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dog Town
    • Fales Hot Springs
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Fales Hot Springs is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fales Hot Springs
    • Dunderberg Mill ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Dunderberg Mill is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunderberg Mill
    • Sonora Junction
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Sonora Junction is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sonora Junction
    • Mono City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Mono City is located in Mono County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono City
  • Lyon County (NV)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Upper Town, with the one closest to Upper Town listed first.
    • Wichman
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Wichman is located in Lyon County (NV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wichman
    • Pine Grove ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Pine Grove is located in Lyon County (NV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
  • Mineral County (NV)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Upper Town, with the one closest to Upper Town listed first.
    • Del Monte ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Del Monte is located in Mineral County (NV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Del Monte
    • Aurora ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
      • Aurora is located in Mineral County (NV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
    • Esmeralda ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Esmeralda is located in Mineral County (NV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmeralda
    • Babbitt ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Babbitt is located in Mineral County (NV)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Babbitt
    • Hawthorne
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Upper Town ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Upper Town.

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 Upper Town - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Bridgeport Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Clinton Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Bodie Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Bodie Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bodie
    • The Bodie Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Wards Cemetery
  • Boot Hill Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masonic Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Masonic Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bodie
  • Miners Union Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miners Union Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Miners Union Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Bodie
  • Mono County Poor Farm Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Aurora Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Dog Town Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Jordon / Lundy Avalanche Victims Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Pine Grove Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Lundy Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Adeline Carson Stilts Burial Site
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Mono Lake Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Antelope Valley Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)

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

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

  • Bridgeport
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Bodie ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Bodie is located in Mono County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bodie
  • Aurora ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Aurora is located in Mineral County (NV)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurora
  • Lundy
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Lundy is located in Mono County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lundy
    • Former name for Lundy:
    • Mill Creek
  • Mono Lake ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Mono Lake is located in Mono County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mono Lake
  • Coleville
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Topaz
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Hawthorne
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Upper Town ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Upper Town.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Upper Town, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Upper Town.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Upper Town:

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 Upper Town, 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>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Upper Town) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.