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 Elko Colony (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 Elko Colony. 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 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.
Elko Colony is located in Elko 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 Elko County: Cassia (ID), Owyhee (ID), Twin Falls (ID), Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine, Box Elder (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Below are the counties that are near Elko Colony. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Elko Colony:
- Elko County (The home county of Elko Colony)
- The following are listed by their distance from Elko Colony, with the one closest to Elko Colony listed first.
- Elko
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Coin ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Coin is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin
- Hunter ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Hunter is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter
- Spring Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Moleen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Moleen is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moleen
- Fort Halleck ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Halleck is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Halleck
- Halleck ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Halleck is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halleck
- Lamoille
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Carlin
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bullion is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
- Deeth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Dry Creek ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Dry Creek is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Creek
- Jiggs
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Jiggs is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jiggs
- Former names for Jiggs:
- Hylton
- Mound Valley
- Skelton
- Eureka County
- Palisade ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Palisade is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisade
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Elko Colony, see our County-by-County Page for Elko Colony.
Cemeteries Near Elko Colony ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Elko Colony.
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 Elko Colony - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Elko Colony covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Elko Colony, with the one closest to Elko Colony listed first.
- Elko County Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Burns Memorial Garden
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Elko City Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elko City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Elko City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Elko.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83924 <2>
- Masonic Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masonic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Masonic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Elko.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83950 <2>
- Fred E. Hogrelius Gravesite
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lamoille Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Carlin Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlin Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Carlin Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Carlin.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83914 <2>
- Ft. Halleck Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Zunino Ranch Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Palisade Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Starr Valley Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Elko Colony in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Elko Colony.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Elko Colony, with the one closest to Elko Colony listed first.
- Elko
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Osino
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Osino is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Osino
- Moleen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Moleen is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moleen
- Lamoille
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Halleck ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Halleck is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halleck
- Fort Halleck ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Halleck is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Halleck
- Lee ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Lee is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Bullion is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
- Palisade ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Palisade is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisade
- Deeth
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Elko Colony. See our List of 1890's Communities around Elko Colony.
Newspapers Published in Elko Colony ...
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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Elko Colony.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Elko Colony, 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 Elko Colony.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Elko Colony:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Elko 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- Elko Colony) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Elko Colony, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |