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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Fay. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Fay to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Fay, 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 Fay (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 Fay. 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 hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Fay is historic, it would have been located within present day Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Mohave (AZ), Clark, Nye, White Pine, Beaver (UT), Iron (UT), Millard (UT) & Washington (UT).

Below are the counties that are near Fay. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fay:

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Fay)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fay, with the one closest to Fay listed first.
    • Deer Lodge ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Spring Valley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Crestline ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Panaca
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Bullionville ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bullionville. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullionville
      • Bullionville is located in Lincoln County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Bullionville
      • From Fay to Bullionville
    • Pioche
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Prince ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Mendha ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Mendha. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mendha
      • Mendha is located in Lincoln County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Mendha
      • From Fay to Mendha
    • Acoma ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Acoma. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acoma
      • Acoma is located in Lincoln County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Acoma
      • From Fay to Acoma
    • Yoacham ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Yoacham have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yoacham
      • Yoacham is located in Lincoln County
    • Barclay
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Islen ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Islen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Islen
      • Islen is located in Lincoln County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Islen
      • From Fay to Islen
  • Beaver County (UT)
    • Mercury Springs ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Iron County (UT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fay, with the one closest to Fay listed first.
    • Stateline ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Stateline. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stateline
      • Stateline is located in Iron County (UT)
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Stateline
      • From Fay to Stateline
    • Desert Springs ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Modena
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Uvada ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Uvada. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Uvada
      • Uvada is located in Iron County (UT)
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Uvada
      • From Fay to Uvada
    • Yale Crossing ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Beryl
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Zane ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Zane. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zane
      • Zane is located in Iron County (UT)
      • Zane has also been known as:
      • Sahara
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Zane
      • From Fay to Zane
    • Beryl Junction
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Washington County (UT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Fay, with the one closest to Fay listed first.
    • Hebron ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Enterprise
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fay, see our County-by-County Page for Fay.

Cemeteries Near Fay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fay.

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 Fay covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fay, with the one closest to Fay listed first.

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 Fay in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fay.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Fay, with the one closest to Fay listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fay. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fay.

Newspapers Published in Fay ...

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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fay.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fay, there are papers which were published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fay.

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 helpful 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 Fay:

The official website for Lincoln County: www.co.lincoln.nv.us/

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

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 Fay, 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>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 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.
<5>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.
<6>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- Fay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.9097, Longitude: -114.0694       In this case, the coordinates for Fay have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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