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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Scoville during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Scoville was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Scoville (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 Scoville. 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 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 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.

Scoville is located in Scotts Bluff County.

To see how the shape of Nebraska's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Scotts Bluff County: Banner, Box Butte, Morrill, Sioux & Goshen (WY).

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

  • Scotts Bluff County     (The home county of Scoville)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scoville, with the one closest to Scoville listed first.
    • Morrill
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Morrill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Morrill
      • Morrill is located in Scotts Bluff County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 873 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Morrill <3>
    • Mitchell
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Lyman
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lyman have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lyman
      • Lyman is located in Scotts Bluff County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 321 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lyman <3>
    • Stegall
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stegall have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stegall
      • Stegall is located in Scotts Bluff County
    • Haig
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haig
      • Haig is located in Scotts Bluff County
    • Scottsbluff
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Terrytown
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrytown
      • Terrytown is located in Scotts Bluff County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,163 people
    • Gering
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gering have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gering
      • Gering is located in Scotts Bluff County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,061 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gering <3>
    • Hillerage
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillerage
      • Hillerage is located in Scotts Bluff County
    • Minatare
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Melbeta
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Melbeta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Melbeta
      • Melbeta is located in Scotts Bluff County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Melbeta <3>
  • Furnas County
    • Henry
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Goshen County (WY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Scoville, with the one closest to Scoville listed first.
    • Huntley
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Torrington
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Yoder
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yoder
      • Yoder is located in Goshen County (WY)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 156 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Yoder <3>
    • Hawk Springs
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Lingle
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lingle
      • Lingle is located in Goshen County (WY)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 454 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lingle <3>
    • Veteran
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • La Grange
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Scoville ...

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 48 newspapers that have been published in the area around Scoville.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Scoville, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Scoville.

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 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 Scoville:

Cemeteries Near Scoville ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Scoville.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Scoville, with the one closest to Scoville 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.<7>

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

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

  • Caldwell ‑ Historic
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Caldwell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caldwell
    • Caldwell is located in Scotts Bluff County
  • Torrington
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Gering
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gering have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gering
    • Gering is located in Scotts Bluff County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,061 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gering <3>
  • Minatare
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • La Grange
    (29 miles [46.7 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 Scoville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Scoville.

The official website for Scotts Bluff County: www.scottsbluffcounty.org/

The official website for State of Nebraska: www.nebraska.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Scoville and then turned east". While Scoville could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Scoville as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Mile's to see Pete ... Mile's is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Scoville could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Just in case there has been confusion between counties, we found that there are two Nebraska communities named Scoville: This one is located in Scotts Bluff County and the other is located in Furnas County. For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Scoville.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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 from Point A (ie- Scoville) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Scoville. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.0155, Longitude: -103.9176    
<5>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.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<7>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 Scoville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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