Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Mill Gulch. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Mill Gulch to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mill Gulch, 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 Mill Gulch (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 Mill Gulch. 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 and hospitals 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 Mill Gulch is historic, it would have been located within present day Lander 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 Lander County: Churchill, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Nye & Pershing.
Below are the counties that are near Mill Gulch. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Mill Gulch:
- Lander County (The home county of Mill Gulch)
- The following are listed by their distance from Mill Gulch, with the one closest to Mill Gulch listed first.
- Tenabo ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
- Tenabo is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenabo
- Lander ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lander is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander
- Cortez ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Cortez is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cortez
- Argenta ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Argenta is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
- Kampos ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Kampos is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kampos
- Battle Mountain
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jenkins ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Jenkins is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenkins
- Eureka County
- The following are listed by their distance from Mill Gulch, with the one closest to Mill Gulch listed first.
- Crescent Valley
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Beowawe
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Harney ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Harney is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
- Blackburn ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Blackburn is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackburn
- Mineral ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Mineral is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral
- Shoshone ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Shoshone is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
- Shoshone has also been known as:
- Shoshone Point
- Dunphy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Dunphy is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunphy
- Barth ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Barth is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barth
- Primeaux
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Primeaux is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Primeaux
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Mill Gulch, see our County-by-County Page for Mill Gulch.
Cemeteries Near Mill Gulch ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mill Gulch.
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 Mill Gulch - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Mill Gulch covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mill Gulch, with the one closest to Mill Gulch listed first.
- Cortez Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Beowawe Indian Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beowawe Indian Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Beowawe Indian Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<4> to the southeast of Beowawe.
- The Beowawe Indian Cemetery has also been known as:
- Indian Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246892 <3>
- Maidens Grave Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Pioneers Grave
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Battle Mtn. City Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Battle Mtn. City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Battle Mtn. City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Battle Mountain.
- The Battle Mtn. City Cemetery has also been known as:
- Battle Mtn. Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1542580 <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 Mill Gulch in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Mill Gulch.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Mill Gulch, with the one closest to Mill Gulch listed first.
- Pittsburgh ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Pittsburgh is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pittsburgh
- Pittsburgh has also been known as:
- Pittsburg
- Bailey ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Bailey is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey
- Beowawe
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Argenta ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Argenta is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
- Battle Mountain
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Cluro ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Cluro is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cluro
- Mineral ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Mineral is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mineral
- Blackburn ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Blackburn is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackburn
- Shoshone ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Shoshone is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
- Shoshone has also been known as:
- Shoshone Point
- Galena ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
- Galena is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Mill Gulch. See our List of 1890's Communities around Mill Gulch.
Newspapers Published in Mill Gulch ...
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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mill Gulch.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mill Gulch, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mill Gulch.
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 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 Mill Gulch:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Lander 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 Mill Gulch, 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- Mill Gulch) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |