Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Gold Center to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gold Center, please Contact Us.

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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 Gold Center (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 Gold Center. 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 Gold Center ...

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 Gold Center: Gold Ctr. (or less commonly used: Gold Cen., Gold Cent. or Gold Cntr.)

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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Gold Center is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Gold Center. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Gold Center:

• Nye County     (The home county of Gold Center)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Gold Center, with the one closest to Gold Center listed first.
  • Beatty
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty
    • Beatty is located in Nye County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Beatty <2>
  • Rhyolite ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhyolite
    • Rhyolite is located in Nye County
  • Carrara ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrara
    • Carrara is located in Nye County
  • Hot Springs
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
    • Hot Springs is located in Nye County
  • Amargosa Valley
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargosa Valley
    • Amargosa Valley is located in Nye County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Amargosa Valley <2>
  • Carrs Camp ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrs Camp
    • Carrs Camp is located in Nye County
• Inyo County (CA)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Gold Center, with the one closest to Gold Center listed first.
  • Chloride City ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chloride City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chloride City
    • Chloride City is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Leadfield ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadfield
    • Leadfield is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Beatty Junction ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beatty Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beatty Junction
    • Beatty Junction is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Park Village
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Park Village
    • Park Village is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Schwab ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schwab have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schwab
    • Schwab is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Harmony Borax Works ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harmony Borax Works
    • Harmony Borax Works is located in Inyo County (CA)
    • Former name for Harmony Borax Works:
    • Greenland
  • Stovepipe Wells
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stovepipe Wells
    • Stovepipe Wells is located in Inyo County (CA)
  • Furnace Creek
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Furnace Creek
    • Furnace Creek is located in Inyo County (CA)
    • Furnace Creek has also been known as:
    • Furnace Creek Ranch
  • Indian Village
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Indian Village
    • Indian Village is located in Inyo County (CA)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Gold Center ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gold Center.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Gold Center. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Gold Center and those printed in the larger area surrounding Gold Center.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 16 miles [25.7 km]<4> of Gold Center.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Gold Center:

• 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 Nye County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Inyo 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 Nye County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cemeteries of Nye County

Cemeteries Near Gold Center ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gold Center.

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

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

• Desert Hill Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desert Hill Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Beatty.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desert Hill Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83921 <5>
• Bullfrog - Rhyolite Cemetery
  (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bullfrog - Rhyolite Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161198 <5>
• Springdale Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Springdale Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springdale Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2564306 <5>
• Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite is located in the vicinity of Beatty Junction (CA)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jean Lemoigne Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #8084 <5>
• Schwab Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Schwab Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Schwab Cemetery is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<4> to the southwest of Furnace Creek (CA).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schwab Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2336833 <5>
• Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Amargosa Desert Memorial Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136714 <5>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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