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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 Wilkinson (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 Wilkinson. 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.

Wilkinson 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 Wilkinson. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wilkinson:

  • Shasta County     (The home county of Wilkinson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wilkinson, with the one closest to Wilkinson listed first.
    • Oak Run
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Pawnee ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Pawnee is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pawnee
    • Basin Hollow ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
      • Basin Hollow is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin Hollow
    • Ingot
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Ingot is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ingot
      • Former names for Ingot:
      • Afterthought
      • Silverton
    • Furnaceville ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Furnaceville is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnaceville
    • Bullskin ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Bullskin is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullskin
    • Eudora Colony ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Eudora Colony is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eudora Colony
    • Fern
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Fern is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fern
    • Whitmore
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Millville
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Bella Vista
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Inwood
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Inwood is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood
  • Tehama County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wilkinson, with the one closest to Wilkinson listed first.
    • Manton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Dales
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Dales is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dales
    • Paynes Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Bend
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Bend is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
    • Hooker
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Hooker is located in Tehama County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hooker
    • Dantuma Place
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • 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 Wilkinson, see our County-by-County Page for Wilkinson.

Cemeteries Near Wilkinson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wilkinson.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Wilkinson, with the one closest to Wilkinson 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.<3>

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

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

  • Oak Run
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Millville
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Inwood
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Inwood is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inwood
  • Ydaloom ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Ydaloom is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ydaloom
  • Round Mountain
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Shingletown
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Montgomery Creek
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Baird ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Baird is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baird
  • Redding
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Buckeye
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Buckeye is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
  • Anderson
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Anderson is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,565 people
    • Former name for Anderson:
    • American Ranch
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Anderson <1>
  • Balls Ferry ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Balls Ferry is located in Shasta County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Balls Ferry
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Girvan
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Girvan is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Girvan
    • Manton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Morley ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Morley is located in Shasta County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morley

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

Newspapers Published in Wilkinson ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around Wilkinson.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Wilkinson, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Wilkinson.

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 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 Wilkinson:

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 Wilkinson, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Wilkinson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.