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 Barcelona Summit (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 Barcelona Summit. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Barcelona Summit is located in Nye 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 Nye County: Inyo (CA), Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Mineral & White Pine.

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

• Nye County     (The home county of Barcelona Summit)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Barcelona Summit, with the one closest to Barcelona Summit listed first.
  • Jefferson ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson
    • Jefferson is located in Nye County
  • Round Mountain
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Round Mountain
    • Round Mountain is located in Nye County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Round Mountain <1>
  • Manhattan
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manhattan
    • Manhattan is located in Nye County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Manhattan <1>
  • Carvers
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carvers
    • Carvers is located in Nye County
  • Jett ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jett have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jett
    • Jett is located in Nye County
  • Peavine ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peavine have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peavine
    • Peavine is located in Nye County
  • Indian Springs ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Indian Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Springs
    • Indian Springs is located in Nye County
    • Indian Springs has also been known as:
    • Indian Spring
  • Learville ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Learville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Learville
    • Learville is located in Nye County
    • Learville has also been known as:
    • Searville
  • Ophir ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ophir have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ophir
    • Ophir is located in Nye County
    • Ophir has also been known as:
    • Toiyabe - City
    • Twin River
• White Pine County
  • Belmont ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
    • Belmont is located in White Pine County

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

Newspapers Published in Barcelona Summit ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Barcelona Summit.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Barcelona Summit, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Barcelona Summit.

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 Barcelona Summit:

• Websites specific to Nevada
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Nevada State Library and Archives

• Pages specific to Nye County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • White Pine County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cemeteries of Nye County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cemeteries of Nye County

Cemeteries Near Barcelona Summit ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Barcelona Summit.

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

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

• Anderson Shoshone Indian Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Anderson Shoshone Indian Cemetery is located 41 miles [66 km]<3> to the southwest of Tonopah.
  • The Anderson Shoshone Indian Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Anderson Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Anderson Shoshone Indian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83907 <4>
• Belmont Cemetery
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Belmont Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83908 <4>
• Round Mountain Cemetery
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Round Mountain Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #900101 <4>
• Mt. Moriah Cemetery
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. Moriah Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83958 <4>
• Darrough Family Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Darrough Family Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253179 <4>
• Old Miner Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Old Miner Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the south of Carvers.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Miner Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1968349 <4>

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.<5>

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

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

• Belmont ‑ Historic
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
  • Belmont is located in White Pine County
• Peavine ‑ Historic
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peavine have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peavine
  • Peavine is located in Nye County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Barcelona Summit. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Nye County: www.co.nye.nv.us/

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