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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.

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 East Las Vegas: E. 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 northeast 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 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.

East Las Vegas is located in Clark 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 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)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitney have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
      • Whitney is located in Clark County
    • Winchester
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
      • Winchester is located in Clark County
    • Henderson
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Victory Village
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Victory Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Village
      • Victory Village is located in Clark County
    • Paradise
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
      • Paradise is located in Clark County
    • Sunrise Manor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunrise Manor have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Manor
      • Sunrise Manor is located in Clark County
    • Hoover City ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hoover City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover City
      • Hoover City is located in Clark County
    • Las Vegas
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • North Las Vegas
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Las Vegas
      • North Las Vegas is located in Clark County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 260,098 people
    • Boulder Junction
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Boulder Junction. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Junction
      • Boulder Junction is located in Clark County
    • Bracken ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bracken. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bracken
      • Bracken is located in Clark County
    • Arden
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arden
      • Arden is located in Clark County
  • Mohave County (AZ)

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.

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 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)
  • King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the 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 <4>
  • Palm Eastern Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the 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 <4>
  • 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 the 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 <4>
  • Las Vegas Paiute Tribe Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Palm Desert Downtown Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palm Desert Downtown Cemetery
    • The Palm Desert Downtown Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Desert Memorial Cemetery
    • Palm Desert Memorial
    • Palm Downtown Cemetery
    • Palm Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #234877 <4>
  • Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the 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 <4>
  • 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) ...

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]<5>. 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 websites either 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:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for East Las Vegas. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Clark County: www.accessclarkcounty.com/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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.
<5>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 from Point A (ie- East Las Vegas) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in East Las Vegas. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.0944, Longitude: -115.0419       In this case, the coordinates for East Las Vegas have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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