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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 Wheatons (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 Wheatons. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Wheatons is located in Tulare 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 Tulare County: Fresno, Inyo, Kern & Kings.

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

  • Tulare County     (The home county of Wheatons)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wheatons, with the one closest to Wheatons listed first.
    • Soda Springs
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Soda Springs is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Soda Springs
    • Globe
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Globe is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
    • Camp Nelson
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Springville
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cedar Slope
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Cedar Slope is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Slope
    • Ponderosa
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Ponderosa is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ponderosa
    • California Hot Springs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Pine Flat
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
      • Pine Flat is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Flat
    • Roads End ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Roads End is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roads End
      • Former name for Roads End:
      • Pascoe's Pack Station
      • Roads End has also been known as:
      • Roads End Resort
    • Milo
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Milo is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
    • Sugarloaf Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Sugarloaf Village is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sugarloaf Village
    • Posey
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • East Porterville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • East Porterville is located in Tulare County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Porterville
  • Kern County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wheatons, with the one closest to Wheatons listed first.
    • Glennville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Alta Sierra
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Alta Sierra is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alta Sierra
    • Rogersville ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Rogersville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogersville
    • Shirley Meadows
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Shirley Meadows is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shirley Meadows
    • Woody
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Kernville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Wofford Heights
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Isabella ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Isabella is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isabella
    • Keyesville ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Keyesville is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keyesville
      • Former names for Keyesville:
      • Hogeye
      • Keysville
    • Petersburg ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Petersburg is located in Kern County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Petersburg
      • Petersburg has also been known as:
      • Greenhorn

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

Cemeteries Near Wheatons ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wheatons.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Globe
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Globe is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Globe
  • Milo
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Milo is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Milo
  • White River ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • White River is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
  • Plano
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Plano is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
  • Terra Bella
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Porterville
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Woody
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Kernville
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Lindsay
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Poplar
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Poplar is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
    • Poplar has also been known as:
    • Poplar - Cotton Center
  • Woodville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Woodville is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
  • Yokohl
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Yokohl is located in Tulare County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yokohl

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

Newspapers Published in Wheatons ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wheatons.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Wheatons:

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 Wofford Heights and Kernville. 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- Wheatons) 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 Wheatons, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.