Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Barrel Spring to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Barrel Spring, please Contact Us.

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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 Barrel Spring (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 Barrel Spring. 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.

Name Variations for Barrel Spring ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Barrel Spring: Barrel Spg. (or less commonly used: Barrel Spng. or Barrel Sprng.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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 Barrel Spring 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 Barrel Spring. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Barrel Spring:

• Esmeralda County     (The home county of Barrel Spring)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Barrel Spring, with the one closest to Barrel Spring listed first.
  • Blair Junction ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • 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
  • Blair ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
    • Blair is located in Esmeralda County
  • Silver Peak
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
    • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
  • Coaldale ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaldale
    • Coaldale is located in Esmeralda County
    • Coaldale has also been known as:
    • Coaldale Junction
  • Nivloc ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nivloc
    • Nivloc is located in Esmeralda County
  • Goldfield
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfield
    • Goldfield is located in Esmeralda County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldfield <3>
• Mineral County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Barrel Spring, with the one closest to Barrel Spring listed first.
  • Metallic City ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 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
  • Candelaria ‑ Historic
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Candelaria
    • Candelaria is located in Mineral County
• Nye County
  • Tonopah
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • 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 Barrel Spring, see our County-by-County Page for Barrel Spring.

Newspapers Published in Barrel Spring ...

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 Barrel Spring.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Barrel Spring, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Barrel Spring.

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 Barrel Spring:

• 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 Esmeralda County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Mineral County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Nye 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 Esmeralda County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Nevada

Cemeteries Near Barrel Spring ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Barrel Spring.

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

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

• Silver Peak Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver Peak Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #301176 <5>
• Millers Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Millers Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2297790 <5>
• Millers Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Millers Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2400677 <5>
• Gilbert Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Gilbert Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilbert Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2508514 <5>
• Kirchen Gravesite
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirchen Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364987 <5>
• Tonopah Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tonopah Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1861712 <5>
• Old Tonopah Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • The Old Tonopah Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Tonopah Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Tonopah Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2174134 <5>
• Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2247684 <5>
• Goldfield Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goldfield Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136465 <5>
• Columbus Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Columbus Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Columbus Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2518767 <5>
• Fish Lake Valley Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fish Lake Valley Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #301485 <5>

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 Barrel Spring in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Barrel Spring.

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

• Silver Peak
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
  • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
• Gilbert ‑ Historic
  (17 miles [27.4 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
  (25 miles [40.2 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

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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