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Introduction ...

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

We've added Alum to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Alum, 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 Alum (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 Alum. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Alum is historic, it would have been located within present day Esmeralda County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Esmeralda County: Inyo (CA), Mono (CA), Mineral & Nye.

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

  • Esmeralda County     (The home county of Alum)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alum, with the one closest to Alum listed first.
    • Blair ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
      • Blair is located in Esmeralda County
    • Blair Junction ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blair Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Junction
      • Blair Junction is located in Esmeralda County
    • Silver Peak
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
      • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
    • Coaldale ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale
      • Coaldale is located in Esmeralda County
      • Coaldale has also been known as:
      • Coaldale Junction
    • Nivloc ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nivloc
      • Nivloc is located in Esmeralda County
    • Goldfield
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Dyer
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Mineral County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Alum, with the one closest to Alum listed first.
    • Candelaria ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
      • Candelaria is located in Mineral County
    • Metallic City ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Metallic City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metallic City
      • Metallic City is located in Mineral County
      • Metallic City has also been known as:
      • Pickhandle Gulch
  • Nye County
    • Tonopah
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonopah
      • Tonopah is located in Nye County
      • Former name for Tonopah:
      • Butler City
      • Tonopah has also been known as:
      • New Belmont
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tonopah <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Alum ...

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 Alum.

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Alum:

Cemeteries Near Alum ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Alum.

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 Alum covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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

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

  • Silver Peak
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
    • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
  • Gilbert ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gilbert have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilbert
    • Gilbert is located in Esmeralda County
  • Columbus ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Columbus have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
    • Columbus is located in Esmeralda County
  • Dyer
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Candelaria ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
    • Candelaria is located in Mineral County

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

The official website for State of Nevada: nv.gov/

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 Alum, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Alum) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Alum. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9085, Longitude: -117.6668       In this case, the coordinates for Alum have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.




 

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