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 Fitting (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 Fitting. 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.

Fitting is located in Pershing 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 Pershing County: Churchill, Humboldt, Lander & Washoe.

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

Pershing County (The home county of Fitting)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fitting, with the one closest to Fitting listed first.
- Unionville ‑ Historic
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
  - Unionville is located in Pershing County
- Zola ‑ Historic
  (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  - Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Zola. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zola
  - Zola is located in Pershing County
- Torreytown ‑ Historic
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreytown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreytown
  - Torreytown is located in Pershing County
- Star City ‑ Historic
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star City
  - Star City is located in Pershing County
- Colado ‑ Historic
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colado have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colado
  - Colado is located in Pershing County
- Humboldt City ‑ Historic
  (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humboldt City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt City
  - Humboldt City is located in Pershing County
- Humboldt House
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Humboldt House have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt House
  - Humboldt House is located in Pershing County
- Imlay
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
  - Imlay is located in Pershing County
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Imlay <3>
- Lovelock
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lovelock
  - Lovelock is located in Pershing County
  - Population from the 2020 Census: 1,819 people
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lovelock <3>
- Lander City ‑ Historic
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lander City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander City
  - Lander City is located in Pershing County
- Mill City
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill City
  - Mill City is located in Pershing County
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mill City <3>
- Puckerbrush
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Puckerbrush
  - Puckerbrush is located in Pershing County
- Neptune City ‑ Historic
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Neptune City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neptune City
  - Neptune City is located in Pershing County
Churchill County
- Boyer ‑ Historic
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Boyer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer
  - Boyer is located in Churchill County

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

Newspapers Published in Fitting ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fitting.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fitting, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fitting.

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 Fitting:

Websites specific to Nevada
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the Nevada State Library and Archives

Pages specific to Pershing County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails

Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Churchill County
  - Jump to Cyndi's List
  - Jump to Family Search
  - Jump to Genealogy Trails

Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Nevada
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Nevada
- Cemeteries of Pershing County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Nevada
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Nevada
- Cemeteries of Pershing County

Cemeteries Near Fitting ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fitting.

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

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

Unionville Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Unionville Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2202007 <5>
Lone Mtn. Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mtn. Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83946 <5>
Big Meadow Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Big Meadow Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Lovelock.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Big Meadow Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83909 <5>
Dun Glen Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dun Glen Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161754 <5>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	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.
<3>	While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Fitting) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Fitting. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.3363, Longitude: -118.1051 In this case, the coordinates for Fitting have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.