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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Cooper. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Cooper to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cooper, 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 Cooper (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 Cooper. 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Cooper is historic, it would have been located within present day White Pine 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 White Pine County: Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, Juab (UT), Millard (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Below are the counties that are near Cooper. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cooper:
- White Pine County (The home county of Cooper)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cooper, with the one closest to Cooper listed first.
- Majors Place
(5 miles [8 km] to the south)
- Majors Place is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Majors Place
- Taylor ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Taylor is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Osceola ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Osceola is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
- East Ely
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Baltimore Mill ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Baltimore Mill is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baltimore Mill
- Calumet ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Calumet is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
- Ely
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Ely is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,014 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ely <2>
- Shoshone ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Shoshone is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
- Lane City ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Lane City is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane City
- Former name for Lane City:
- Mineral City
- Adverse ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Adverse is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adverse
- McGill Junction ‑ Historic
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- McGill Junction is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGill Junction
- McGill
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- McGill is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGill
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cooper, see our County-by-County Page for Cooper.
Cemeteries Near Cooper ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cooper.
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 Cooper - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cooper covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cooper, with the one closest to Cooper listed first.
- Taylor Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Taylor Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the southeast of Ely.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2175961 <4>
- Osceola Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Ward Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ward Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ward Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<3> to the south of Ely.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83971 <4>
- Black Horse Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
- Eldridge Ranch Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Ely City Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Keystone Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Baker City Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Baker City Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Baker.
- The Baker City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Baker Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2181583 <4>
- Preston Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Lund Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lund Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lund Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Lund.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1440360 <4>
- Preston Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
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 Cooper in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cooper.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cooper, with the one closest to Cooper listed first.
- Taylor ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Taylor is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Osceola ‑ Historic
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Osceola is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osceola
- Cleveland ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Cleveland is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleveland
- Ely
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- Ely is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,014 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ely <2>
- McGill
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- McGill is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGill
- Geyser ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Geyser is located in Lincoln County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geyser
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cooper. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cooper.
Newspapers Published in Cooper ...
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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cooper.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cooper, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Cooper.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Cooper:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to White Pine County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
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 Cooper, 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Cooper) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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. |