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 Bonanza (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 Bonanza. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Bonanza is located in Clark 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 Clark County: Mohave (AZ), Inyo (CA), San Bernardino (CA), Lincoln & Nye.
Below are the counties that are near Bonanza. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bonanza:
- Clark County (The home county of Bonanza)
- The following are listed by their distance from Bonanza, with the one closest to Bonanza listed first.
- Las Vegas
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Hoover City ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Hoover City is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover City
- North Las Vegas
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- North Las Vegas is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Las Vegas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 260,098 people
- Winchester
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Winchester is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
- Sunrise Manor
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Sunrise Manor is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Manor
- Bracken ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Bracken is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bracken
- Paradise
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Paradise is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Spring Valley
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Spring Valley is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Boulder Junction
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Boulder Junction is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Junction
- Whitney
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Whitney is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
- Summerlin South
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Summerlin South is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerlin South
- Arden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Arden is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bonanza, see our County-by-County Page for Bonanza.
Cemeteries Near Bonanza ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bonanza.
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 Bonanza - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bonanza covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bonanza, with the one closest to Bonanza listed first.
- Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Bunkers Eden Vale Cemetery
- Eden Vale Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1969734 <2>
- Palm Desert Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Desert Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Palm Desert Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Palm Desert Cemetery has also been known as:
- Desert Memorial Cemetery
- Palm Desert Downtown Cemetery
- Palm Desert Memorial Cemetery
- Palm Downtown Cemetery
- Palm Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #234877 <2>
- Woodlawn Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Las Vegas Paiute Tribe Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the east)
- Bunkers Memory Gardens Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
- Davis Memorial Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davis Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Davis Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Davis Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Paradise Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2185906 <2>
- Palm Memorial Park Northwest
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Palm Eastern Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Eastern Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Palm Eastern Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Palm Eastern Cemetery has also been known as:
- Palm Memorial Park
- Palm Valley View Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #177895 <2>
- King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery has also been known as:
- King David Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981460 <2>
- Barbara G. Edwards 9-11 Memorial
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Palm Mortuary Memorial Park
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Wilson Family Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (4 more) ...
- Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Boulder City.
- The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Veterans Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1979925 <2>
- Boulder City Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Hoover Dam Gravesite
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bonanza. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bonanza.
Newspapers Published in Bonanza ...
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 51 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bonanza.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bonanza, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bonanza.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Bonanza:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Clark County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Bonanza) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |