Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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.

Goshute has also been known as: Goshiute Station, Goshute Station and Gosiute.

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 southeast 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 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 east 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 Goshute is historic, it would have been located within present day Elko 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 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 Goshute. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Goshute:

• Elko County     (The home county of Goshute)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Goshute, with the one closest to Goshute listed first.
  • Currie
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Currie
    • Currie is located in Elko County
  • Sprucemont
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sprucemont have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucemont
    • Sprucemont is located in Elko County
• White Pine County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Goshute, with the one closest to Goshute listed first.
  • Greens ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greens have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greens
    • Greens is located in White Pine County
  • Cherry Creek
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
    • Cherry Creek is located in White Pine County
  • Tippett
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tippett have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tippett
    • Tippett is located in White Pine County

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

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 websites either 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 Goshute:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Goshute ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Goshute.

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

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

• Stratton Ranch Cemetery
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Stratton Ranch Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Stratton Ranch Cemetery is located 60 miles [96.6 km]<4> to the south of Ely.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stratton Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254353 <5>
• New Cherry Creek Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • The New Cherry Creek Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Cherry Creek Cemetery
  • Northeast Cherry Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Cherry Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2176193 <5>
• Southwest Cherry Creek Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Southwest Cherry Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253624 <5>
• Old Middle Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • The Old Middle Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Old Middle Cherry Creek Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Middle Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2176194 <5>
• Ft. Pearce Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • The Ft. Pearce Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Egan Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Pearce Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2248204 <5>
• Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2243121 <5>

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

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

• Cherry Creek
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
  • Cherry Creek is located in White Pine County
• Sprucemont
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sprucemont have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucemont
  • Sprucemont is located in Elko County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Elko County: www.elkocountynv.net/

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