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 Beatty (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 Beatty. 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.

Beatty 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 Beatty. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Beatty:

• Nye County     (The home county of Beatty)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Beatty, with the one closest to Beatty listed first.
  • Rhyolite ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhyolite
    • Rhyolite is located in Nye County
  • Hot Springs
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
    • Hot Springs is located in Nye County
  • Carrara ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrara
    • Carrara is located in Nye County
  • Carrs Camp ‑ Historic
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrs Camp
    • Carrs Camp is located in Nye County
  • Amargosa Valley
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargosa Valley
    • Amargosa Valley is located in Nye County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amargosa Valley <1>
  • Bonnie Claire ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bonnie Claire have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Claire
    • Bonnie Claire is located in Nye County
• Inyo County (CA)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Beatty, with the one closest to Beatty listed first.
  • Chloride City ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chloride City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chloride City
    • Chloride City is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Leadfield ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadfield
    • Leadfield is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Beatty Junction ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Junction
    • Beatty Junction is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Park Village
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Village
    • Park Village is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Schwab ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schwab have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schwab
    • Schwab is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Stovepipe Wells
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stovepipe Wells
    • Stovepipe Wells is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Harmony Borax Works ‑ Historic
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Borax Works
    • Harmony Borax Works is located in Inyo County (CA)
    • Former name for Harmony Borax Works:
    • Greenland

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Beatty ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Beatty.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Beatty. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Beatty and those printed in the larger area surrounding Beatty.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3> of Beatty.

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 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 Beatty:

• 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
  • Inyo 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 Beatty ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Beatty.

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

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

• Desert Hill Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desert Hill Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Beatty.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desert Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83921 <4>
• Bullfrog - Rhyolite Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bullfrog - Rhyolite Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161198 <4>
• Springdale Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Springdale Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springdale Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2564306 <4>
• Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite is located in the vicinity of Beatty Junction (CA)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8084 <4>
• Schwab Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Schwab Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Schwab Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the southwest of Furnace Creek (CA).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schwab Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2336833 <4>
• Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136714 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Beatty: www.beattynv.info/

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

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