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Introduction ...

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

We've added Pittsburgh to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pittsburgh, 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 Pittsburgh (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 Pittsburgh. 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 Pittsburgh ...

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 have occurred.

Pittsburgh has also been known as: Pittsburg.

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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Pittsburgh is historic, it would have been located within present day Lander 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 Lander County: Churchill, Elko, Eureka, Humboldt, Nye & Pershing.

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

  • Lander County     (The home county of Pittsburgh)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pittsburgh, with the one closest to Pittsburgh listed first.
    • Lander ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lander have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander
      • Lander is located in Lander County
    • Tenabo ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tenabo
      • Tenabo is located in Lander County
    • Battle Mountain
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jenkins ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jenkins have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jenkins
      • Jenkins is located in Lander County
    • Kampos ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kampos have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kampos
      • Kampos is located in Lander County
    • Dewitt Mill ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dewitt Mill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dewitt Mill
      • Dewitt Mill is located in Lander County
    • Cortez ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cortez
      • Cortez is located in Lander County
  • Eureka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pittsburgh, with the one closest to Pittsburgh listed first.
    • Crescent Valley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Beowawe
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Shoshone ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoshone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
      • Shoshone is located in Eureka County
      • Shoshone has also been known as:
      • Shoshone Point
    • Harney ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
      • Harney is located in Eureka County
    • Barth ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Barth have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barth
      • Barth is located in Eureka County
  • Humboldt County

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

Newspapers Published in Pittsburgh ...

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 Pittsburgh.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pittsburgh, there are papers which were published within 15 miles [24.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pittsburgh.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Pittsburgh:

Cemeteries Near Pittsburgh ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pittsburgh.

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

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

  • Battle Mtn. City Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Beowawe Indian Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Beowawe Indian Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<4> to the northwest of Beowawe.
    • The Beowawe Indian Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Indian Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beowawe Indian Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246892 <5>
  • Maidens Grave Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Cortez Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Pioneers Grave
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Pioneers Grave. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneers Grave

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.

Pittsburgh itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Bailey ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bailey have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bailey
    • Bailey is located in Lander County
  • Battle Mountain
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Argenta ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Argenta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
    • Argenta is located in Lander County
  • Galena ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Galena have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
    • Galena is located in Lander County
  • Piute ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Piute have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piute
    • Piute is located in Lander County
  • Beowawe
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Shoshone ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shoshone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
    • Shoshone is located in Eureka County
    • Shoshone has also been known as:
    • Shoshone Point
  • Cluro ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cluro have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cluro
    • Cluro is located in Eureka County

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

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

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 Pittsburgh, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pittsburgh) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pittsburgh. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 40.4285, Longitude: -116.8223       In this case, the coordinates for Pittsburgh have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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