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Introduction ...

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

We've added Hudson to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Hudson, 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 Hudson (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 Hudson. 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 hospitals and 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 Hudson is historic, it would have been located within present day Lyon 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 Lyon County: Mono (CA), Carson City, Churchill, Douglas, Mineral, Storey & Washoe.

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

  • Lyon County     (The home county of Hudson)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hudson, with the one closest to Hudson listed first.
    • Smith
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Wellington
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Yerington
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pine Grove ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Pine Grove is located in Lyon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
    • Wabuska
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Wabuska is located in Lyon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabuska
    • Wichman
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Wichman is located in Lyon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wichman
    • Davis Station ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Davis Station is located in Lyon County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davis Station
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hudson, with the one closest to Hudson listed first.
    • Topaz Lake
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Topaz Lake is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Topaz Lake
    • Dresslerville Colony
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Dresslerville Colony is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresslerville Colony
    • Dresslerville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Dresslerville is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dresslerville
    • Buckeye ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Buckeye is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckeye
    • Gardnerville Ranchos
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Gardnerville Ranchos is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gardnerville Ranchos
    • Gardnerville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Johnson Lane
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Johnson Lane is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnson Lane
    • Centerville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Centerville is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centerville
    • Minden
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Sheridan ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Sheridan is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan
  • Mineral County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hudson, with the one closest to Hudson listed first.
    • Copper Run ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Copper Run is located in Mineral County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Run
    • Schurz
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Alpine County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hudson, with the one closest to Hudson listed first.
    • Loope ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Loope is located in Alpine County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loope
    • Paynesville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Paynesville is located in Alpine County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paynesville
    • Mesa Vista
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Mesa Vista is located in Alpine County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Vista
    • Alpine Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Alpine Village is located in Alpine County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine Village
    • Markleeville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Woodfords
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Woodfords is located in Alpine County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodfords
    • Marklee Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Marklee Village is located in Alpine County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marklee Village
  • Mono County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hudson, with the one closest to Hudson listed first.
    • Topaz
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Coleville
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Walker
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Belfort ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Belfort is located in Mono County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belfort

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

Cemeteries Near Hudson ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hudson.

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 Hudson - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Hudson covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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

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

  • Wellington
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Mason
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Mason is located in Lyon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mason
  • Topaz
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Wabuska
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Wabuska is located in Lyon County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wabuska
  • Coleville
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Schurz
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Gardnerville
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Markleeville
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Sheridan ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Sheridan is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheridan
  • Woodfords
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Woodfords is located in Alpine County (CA)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodfords

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

Newspapers Published in Hudson ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hudson.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hudson, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hudson.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Hudson:

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 Hudson, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Hudson) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.