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Introduction ...

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

We've added Arlemont to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Arlemont, 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 Arlemont (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 Arlemont. 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 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 Arlemont is historic, it would have been located within present day Esmeralda County.

To see how the shape of Nevada's counties may 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 Arlemont. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Arlemont:

  • Esmeralda County     (The home county of Arlemont)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arlemont, with the one closest to Arlemont listed first.
    • Dyer
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Coaldale ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Coaldale is located in Esmeralda County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale
      • Coaldale has also been known as:
      • Coaldale Junction
    • Nivloc ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Nivloc is located in Esmeralda County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nivloc
    • Blair Junction ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Blair Junction is located in Esmeralda County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair Junction
    • Blair ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Blair is located in Esmeralda County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
    • Silver Peak
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
  • Mineral County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arlemont, with the one closest to Arlemont listed first.
    • Mount Montgomery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Mount Montgomery is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Montgomery
    • Metallic City ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Metallic City is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Metallic City
      • Metallic City has also been known as:
      • Pickhandle Gulch
    • Candelaria ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Candelaria is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
    • Candelaria Junction ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Candelaria Junction is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria Junction
    • Tonopah Junction ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Tonopah Junction is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonopah Junction
  • Mono County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Arlemont, with the one closest to Arlemont listed first.
    • Montgomery City ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Montgomery City is located in Mono County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Montgomery City
    • Hammil
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Hammil is located in Mono County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammil
    • Benton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Benton Hot Springs
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Benton Hot Springs is located in Mono County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Benton Hot Springs
    • Chalfant Valley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Chalfant Valley is located in Mono County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chalfant Valley
    • Pizona ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Pizona is located in Mono County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pizona

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

Cemeteries Near Arlemont ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Arlemont.

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

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Arlemont, with the one closest to Arlemont 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 Arlemont in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Arlemont.

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

  • Dyer
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Hammil
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hammil is located in Mono County (CA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammil
  • Columbus ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Columbus is located in Esmeralda County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbus
  • Benton
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Candelaria ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Candelaria is located in Mineral County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
  • Silver Peak
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak

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

Newspapers Published in Arlemont ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Arlemont.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Arlemont, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Arlemont.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Arlemont:

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 Arlemont, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Arlemont) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.