Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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.

Poker Brown has also been known as: Poker Brown Camp.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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 Poker Brown is historic, it would have been located within present day Pershing 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 Pershing County: Churchill, Humboldt, Lander & Washoe.

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

• Pershing County     (The home county of Poker Brown)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Poker Brown, with the one closest to Poker Brown listed first.
  • Humboldt House
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Humboldt House. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt House
    • Humboldt House is located in Pershing County
  • Humboldt City ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Humboldt City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humboldt City
    • Humboldt City is located in Pershing County
  • Torreytown ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Torreytown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Torreytown
    • Torreytown is located in Pershing County
  • Zola ‑ Historic
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Zola. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Zola
    • Zola is located in Pershing County
  • Star City ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star City
    • Star City is located in Pershing County
  • Unionville ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Unionville
    • Unionville is located in Pershing County
  • Imlay
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Imlay
    • Imlay is located in Pershing County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Imlay <4>
  • Placerites ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Placerites. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placerites
    • Placerites is located in Pershing County
  • Lander City ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lander City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lander City
    • Lander City is located in Pershing County
  • Seven Troughs ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Seven Troughs. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seven Troughs
    • Seven Troughs is located in Pershing County
  • Tunnel Camp ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tunnel Camp
    • Tunnel Camp is located in Pershing County
  • Colado ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Colado have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colado
    • Colado is located in Pershing County
  • Mill City
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mill City
    • Mill City is located in Pershing County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mill City <4>

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

Cemeteries Near Poker Brown ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Poker Brown.

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

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

• Unionville Cemetery
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Unionville Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2202007 <5>
• Seven Troughs Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Seven Troughs Cemetery
  • The Seven Troughs Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Mazuma Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161756 <5>
• Lone Mtn. Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Mtn. Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83946 <5>
• Big Meadow Cemetery
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Big Meadow Cemetery
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Big Meadow Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Lovelock.
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83909 <5>
• Dun Glen Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dun Glen Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161754 <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.

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

• Cosgrave ‑ Historic
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cosgrave
  • Cosgrave is located in Pershing County

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

Newspapers Published in Poker Brown ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Poker Brown.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Poker Brown, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Poker Brown.

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 helpful 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 Poker Brown:

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

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cemeteries of Pershing County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Nevada
  • Cemeteries of Pershing County

Off-the-Road Links ...

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