Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Jumbotown to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Jumbotown, 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 Jumbotown (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 Jumbotown. 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 Jumbotown is historic, it would have been located within present day Esmeralda 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 Esmeralda County: Inyo (CA), Mono (CA), Mineral & Nye.

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

• Esmeralda County     (The home county of Jumbotown)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Jumbotown, with the one closest to Jumbotown listed first.
  • Goldfield
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfield
    • Goldfield is located in Esmeralda County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldfield <2>
  • Silver Peak
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
    • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
  • Lida
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lida
    • Lida is located in Esmeralda County
    • Lida has also been known as:
    • Alida Valley
    • Alida
    • Lida Valley
  • Blair ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blair
    • Blair is located in Esmeralda County
  • Gold Point
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Point
    • Gold Point is located in Esmeralda County
    • Former names for Gold Point:
    • Hornsilver
    • Lime Point
  • Nivloc ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nivloc
    • Nivloc is located in Esmeralda County
• Nye County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Jumbotown, with the one closest to Jumbotown listed first.
  • Tonopah
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonopah
    • Tonopah is located in Nye County
    • Former name for Tonopah:
    • Butler City
    • Tonopah has also been known as:
    • New Belmont
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tonopah <2>
  • Scottys Junction
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Scottys Junction
    • Scottys Junction is located in Nye County

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

Newspapers Published in Jumbotown ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Jumbotown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Jumbotown, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Jumbotown.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Jumbotown:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Jumbotown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Jumbotown.

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

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

• Goldfield Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goldfield Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2136465 <4>
• Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goldfield Pioneer Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2247684 <4>
• Silver Peak Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver Peak Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #301176 <4>
• Lida Upper Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lida Upper Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Lida.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lida Upper Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2255455 <4>
• Lida Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lida Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2218021 <4>
• Old Tonopah Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • The Old Tonopah Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Tonopah Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Tonopah Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2174134 <4>
• Tonopah Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tonopah Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1861712 <4>
• Kirchen Gravesite
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirchen Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2364987 <4>

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

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

• Silver Peak
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Peak
  • Silver Peak is located in Esmeralda County
• Lida
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lida
  • Lida is located in Esmeralda County
  • Lida has also been known as:
  • Alida Valley
  • Alida
  • Lida Valley

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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