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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 Whittington Place (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 Whittington Place. 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 Whittington Place ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Whittington Place: Whittington Pl. (or less commonly used: Whittington Plc.)

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Whittington Place is located in Shasta 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 Shasta County: Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Siskiyou, Tehama & Trinity.

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

  • Shasta County     (The home county of Whittington Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whittington Place, with the one closest to Whittington Place listed first.
    • Burney
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Hat Creek
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Old Station
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Viola ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Viola is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Viola
    • Manzanita Lake
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Manzanita Lake is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manzanita Lake
    • Eudora Colony ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Eudora Colony is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eudora Colony
    • Whitmore
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Fern
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Fern is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern
    • Johnson Park
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Johnson Park is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Park
    • Round Mountain
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cassel
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Hatchet Mountain ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Hatchet Mountain is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatchet Mountain
  • Lassen County
    • Pittville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Pittville is located in Lassen County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittville
  • Tehama County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Whittington Place, with the one closest to Whittington Place listed first.
    • Manton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Mineral
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Mill Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Paynes Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Dantuma Place
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Dantuma Place is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dantuma Place

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

Cemeteries Near Whittington Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Whittington Place.

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 Whittington Place - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Whitmore Evangelical Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Fern Pioneer Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Burney Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burney Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Burney Cemetery is located in Burney.
    • The Burney Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Burney District Cemetery
    • Be careful not to confuse this cemetery with another one that is also named Burney Cemetery (located 69 miles to the north).
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2362619 <2>
  • Burney Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burney Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Burney Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Burney.
    • Be careful not to confuse this cemetery with another one that is also named Burney Cemetery (located 68 miles to the north).
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #7866 <2>
  • Whitmore Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Halcumb Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Plateau Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Klotz Family Pioneer Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Cove Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Oak Run Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Ogburn Inwood Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Burney Falls Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Pioneer Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Fall River Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • IOOF Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 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.<3>

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

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

  • Round Mountain
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Cassel
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Montgomery Creek
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Shingletown
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Oak Run
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Inwood
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Inwood is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood
  • Manton
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Fall River Mills
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Cayton
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Cayton is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cayton
  • Lyonsville
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Lyonsville is located in Tehama County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyonsville
  • Millville
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Paynes Creek
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Alfa ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Alfa is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alfa
    • Dana
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Dana is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dana
    • Ydaloom ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom

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

Newspapers Published in Whittington Place ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Whittington Place.

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

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 Whittington Place:

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 Whittington Place, 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' (or 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- Whittington Place) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.