Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Grant City. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Grant City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Grant City, 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 Grant City (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 Grant City. 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 doctors 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 Grant City 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 Grant City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Grant City:
- Nye County (The home county of Grant City)
- The following are listed by their distance from Grant City, with the one closest to Grant City listed first.
- Troy ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
- Troy is located in Nye County
- Crows Nest ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Crows Nest have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crows Nest
- Crows Nest is located in Nye County
- Lockes ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockes
- Lockes is located in Nye County
- Adaven ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the south) - Gold Point ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Point
- Gold Point is located in Nye County
- Lincoln County
- Heizert City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heizert City
- Heizert City is located in Lincoln County
- Heizert City
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Grant City, see our County-by-County Page for Grant City.
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 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 Grant City:
- 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
- Lincoln County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Lincoln County
- 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 Grant City ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Grant City.
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 Grant City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Grant City, with the one closest to Grant City listed first.
- Pine Creek Ranch Family Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Creek Ranch Family Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2206817 <3>
- Sunnyside Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Sunnyside Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunnyside Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2268314 <3>
- Bradshaw Ranch Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Bradshaw Ranch Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bradshaw Ranch Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<5> to the northwest of Duckwater.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bradshaw Ranch Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2155514 <3>
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 Grant City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Grant City.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Grant City, with the one closest to Grant City listed first.
- Sunnyside ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east) - White River ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White River have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
- White River 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 Grant City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Grant City.
Off-the-Road Links ...
The official website for Nye County: www.co.nye.nv.us/
The official website for State of Nevada: 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 Grant City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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> | 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. |
| <4> | 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. |
| <5> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Grant City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Grant City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 38.4160, Longitude: -115.5248 In this case, the coordinates for Grant City have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |