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Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Hills Camp. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Hills Camp to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hills Camp, 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 Hills Camp (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 Hills Camp. 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 Hills Camp ...
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 occur.
While the name of this community is Hills Camp, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Hills Camp may originally have been Hill's Camp.
Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Hills Camp might be written as Hill Camp.
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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
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 north 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 Hills Camp is historic, it would have been located within present day Clark County.
To see how the shape of Nevada's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Clark County: Mohave (AZ), Inyo (CA), San Bernardino (CA), Lincoln & Nye.
Below are the counties that are near Hills Camp. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Hills Camp:
- Clark County (The home county of Hills Camp)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hills Camp, with the one closest to Hills Camp listed first.
- Nelson
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Boulder City
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Junction City ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Junction City is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Junction City
- Victory Village
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Victory Village is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Victory Village
- Emerald City ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Emerald City is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emerald City
- Henderson
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Searchlight
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Abbottsville ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Abbottsville is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Abbottsville
- Whitney
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Whitney is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
- Sloan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Sloan is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sloan
- Mohave County (AZ)
- The following are listed by their distance from Hills Camp, with the one closest to Hills Camp listed first.
- Willow Beach
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- White Hills
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Temple Bar Marina
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Dolan Springs
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Gold Basin ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
- Gold Basin is located in Mohave County (AZ)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Basin
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Hills Camp, see our County-by-County Page for Hills Camp.
Cemeteries Near Hills Camp ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hills Camp.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Hills Camp - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hills Camp covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Hills Camp, with the one closest to Hills Camp listed first.
- El Dorado Canyon Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Nelson Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nelson Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Nelson Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Nelson.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1966302 <4>
- Boulder City Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Boulder City.
- The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Veterans Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1979925 <4>
- Hoover Dam Gravesite
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- White Hills Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Six Mile - Cottonwood Cove Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Six Mile - Cottonwood Cove Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Six Mile - Cottonwood Cove Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<5> to the east of Searchlight.
- The Six Mile - Cottonwood Cove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Six Mile Cove Cemetery
- Toby Park Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1966296 <4>
- Palm Mortuary Memorial Park
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Searchlight Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery has also been known as:
- King David Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981460 <4>
- Palm Eastern Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Eastern Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Palm Eastern Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Palm Eastern Cemetery has also been known as:
- Palm Memorial Park
- Palm Valley View Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #177895 <4>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Hills Camp. See our List of 1890's Communities around Hills Camp.
Newspapers Published in Hills Camp ...
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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hills Camp.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hills Camp, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hills Camp.
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 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 Hills Camp:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Clark County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
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 Hills Camp, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <2> | It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties). |
| <3> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hills Camp) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |