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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 Gabbs (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 Gabbs. 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 Gabbs ...

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.

The city of Gabbs was originally named Brucite

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.

A Few Details for Gabbs ...

While it's still very early in our research, we found that:

  • Gabbs was established in 1941.

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 and 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.

Gabbs is located in Nye 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 Nye County: Inyo (CA), Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Mineral & White Pine.

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

  • Nye County     (The home county of Gabbs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gabbs, with the one closest to Gabbs listed first.
    • Green Springs ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs
      • Green Springs is located in Nye County
    • Lodi ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodi have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodi
      • Lodi is located in Nye County
    • Goldyke ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldyke
      • Goldyke is located in Nye County
    • Berlin ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Berlin
      • Berlin is located in Nye County
    • Grantsville ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantsville
      • Grantsville is located in Nye County
    • Ione ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ione
      • Ione is located in Nye County
    • Cloverdale ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
      • Cloverdale is located in Nye County
  • Churchill County
    • Eastgate
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eastgate have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgate
      • Eastgate is located in Churchill County
  • Mineral County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gabbs, with the one closest to Gabbs listed first.
    • Broken Hills ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broken Hills
      • Broken Hills is located in Mineral County
    • Simon ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simon
      • Simon is located in Mineral County
    • Luning
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Kinkaid
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kinkaid have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kinkaid
      • Kinkaid is located in Mineral County
      • Kinkaid has also been known as:
      • Acme
      • Kinkead

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Gabbs ...

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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gabbs.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Gabbs. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Gabbs and those printed in the larger area surrounding Gabbs.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3> of Gabbs.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with 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 Gabbs:

Cemeteries Near Gabbs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gabbs.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Gabbs, with the one closest to Gabbs 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.<6>

While we didn't find Gabbs in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Gabbs.

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

  • Downeyville ‑ Historic
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Downeyville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Downeyville
    • Downeyville is located in Nye County
  • Grantsville ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grantsville
    • Grantsville is located in Nye County
  • Midas ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midas have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midas
    • Midas is located in Nye County
  • Eagleville ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagleville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleville
    • Eagleville is located in Churchill County
  • Cloverdale ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cloverdale
    • Cloverdale is located in Nye County

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

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

The official website for Nye County: www.co.nye.nv.us/

The official website for State of Nevada: 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Gabbs) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gabbs. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.8642, Longitude: -117.9301    
<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>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.
<6>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 Gabbs, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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