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Introduction ...

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

We've added Greens to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Greens, 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 Greens (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 Greens. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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 Greens is historic, it would have been located within present day White Pine 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 White Pine County: Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, Juab (UT), Millard (UT) & Tooele (UT).

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

  • White Pine County     (The home county of Greens)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Greens, with the one closest to Greens listed first.
    • Cherry Creek
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
      • Cherry Creek is located in White Pine County
    • Aurum ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurum
      • Aurum is located in White Pine County
    • Tippett
      (24 miles [38.6 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
    • Ruby Hill ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ruby Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruby Hill
      • Ruby Hill is located in White Pine County
      • Ruby Hill has also been known as:
      • Rubyville
  • Elko County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Greens, with the one closest to Greens listed first.
    • Goshute ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Goshute have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshute
      • Goshute is located in Elko County
      • Goshute has also been known as:
      • Goshiute Station
      • Goshute Station
      • Gosiute
    • Currie
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Currie
      • Currie is located in Elko County

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

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 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 Greens:

Cemeteries Near Greens ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Greens.

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

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

  • New Cherry Creek Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Southwest Cherry Creek Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Middle Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Stratton Ranch Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • 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.<4>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Stratton Ranch Cemetery is located 60 miles [96.6 km]<5> to the south of Ely.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stratton Ranch Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2254353 <3>
  • Ft. Pearce Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Schellbourne Ranch Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Aurum Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Aurum Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Aurum Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1877567 <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 Greens in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Greens.

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

  • Cherry Creek
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
    • Cherry Creek is located in White Pine County
  • Aurum ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aurum
    • Aurum is located in White Pine County

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

The official website for White Pine County: www.co.white-pine.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 Greens, 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 '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- Greens) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Greens. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.0357, Longitude: -114.7492       In this case, the coordinates for Greens have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).









 

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