Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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 Number One Settlement (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 Number One Settlement. 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.

Number One Settlement is located in Elko 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 Elko County: Cassia (ID), Owyhee (ID), Twin Falls (ID), Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine, Box Elder (UT) & Tooele (UT).

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

• Elko County     (The home county of Number One Settlement)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Number One Settlement, with the one closest to Number One Settlement listed first.
  • Owyhee
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee
    • Owyhee is located in Elko County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Owyhee <1>
  • Mountain City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain City
    • Mountain City is located in Elko County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain City <1>
  • Rio Tinto ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Rio Tinto. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Tinto
    • Rio Tinto is located in Elko County
  • Deep Creek ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deep Creek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deep Creek
    • Deep Creek is located in Elko County
• Owyhee County (ID)
  • Riddle
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riddle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riddle
    • Riddle is located in Owyhee County (ID)

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

Newspapers Published in Number One Settlement ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Number One Settlement.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Number One Settlement, there are papers which were published within 13 miles [20.9 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Number One Settlement.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Number One Settlement:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Number One Settlement ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Number One Settlement.

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 Number One Settlement covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Owyhee Old Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • The Owyhee Old Cemetery has also been known as:
  • George Washington Cemetery
  • Owyhee West Side Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Owyhee Old Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83935 <5>
• Owyhee East Side Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • The Owyhee East Side Cemetery has also been known as:
  • New Cemetery
  • Owyhee New Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Owyhee East Side Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83961 <5>
• Chinatown Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Chinatown Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<4> to the northeast of Owyhee.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chinatown Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83917 <5>
• Smith Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Smith Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Smith Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83967 <5>
• Premo Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Premo Cemetery
• Miller Creek Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Creek Cemetery
• Mountain City Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain City Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Mountain City.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain City Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2158345 <5>

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.<6>

While we didn't find Number One Settlement in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Number One Settlement.

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

• Mountain City
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain City
  • Mountain City is located in Elko County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain City <1>
• White Rock ‑ Historic
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Rock
  • White Rock is located in Elko County
• Columbia ‑ Historic
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Columbia have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
  • Columbia is located in Elko County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Number One Settlement. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Elko County: www.elkocountynv.net/

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