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 East Las Vegas (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 East Las Vegas. 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 East Las Vegas ...
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.
For example, a typical abbreviation for East Las Vegas: E. Las Vegas
You might be interested in other communities that are also named East Las Vegas. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for East Las Vegas.
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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
East Las Vegas 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 East Las Vegas. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to East Las Vegas:
- Clark County (The home county of East Las Vegas)
- The following are listed by their distance from East Las Vegas, with the one closest to East Las Vegas listed first.
- Whitney
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
- Whitney is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
- Winchester
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Winchester is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
- Henderson
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Victory Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Victory Village is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Village
- Paradise
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Paradise is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Sunrise Manor
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Sunrise Manor is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Manor
- Hoover City ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Hoover City is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover City
- Las Vegas
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- North Las Vegas
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- 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
- Boulder Junction
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Boulder Junction is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Junction
- Bracken ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bracken is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bracken
- Arden
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Arden is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden
- Spring Valley
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Spring Valley is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Mohave County (AZ)
- Willow Beach
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to East Las Vegas, see our County-by-County Page for East Las Vegas.
Cemeteries Near East Las Vegas ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East Las Vegas.
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 East Las Vegas - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for East Las Vegas covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from East Las Vegas, with the one closest to East Las Vegas listed first.
- Davis Memorial Park
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
- 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>
- King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
- 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>
- Palm Eastern Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- 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>
- Palm Mortuary Memorial Park
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
- Woodlawn Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Las Vegas Paiute Tribe Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Palm Desert Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 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
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
- Bunkers Memory Gardens Memorial Park
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Palm Memorial Park Northwest
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Hoover Dam Gravesite
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Barbara G. Edwards 9-11 Memorial
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Wilson Family Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around East Las Vegas. See our List of 1890's Communities around East Las Vegas.
Newspapers Published in East Las Vegas ...
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 49 newspapers that have been published in the area around East Las Vegas.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of East Las Vegas, 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 East Las Vegas.
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 professional and volunteer 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 East Las Vegas:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Clark County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- East Las Vegas) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |