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Introduction ...

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

We've added Pyramid to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pyramid, 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 Pyramid (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 Pyramid. 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 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 Pyramid is historic, it would have been located within present day Washoe 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 Washoe County: Lassen (CA), Modoc (CA), Nevada (CA), Placer (CA), Sierra (CA), Carson City, Churchill, Humboldt, Lyon, Pershing, Storey, Harney (OR) & Lake (OR).

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

  • Washoe County     (The home county of Pyramid)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pyramid, with the one closest to Pyramid listed first.
    • Sutcliffe
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Sutcliffe is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutcliffe
    • Nashville
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Nashville is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashville
    • Nixon
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Spanish Springs
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Spanish Springs is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Springs
    • Fort Defiance ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Defiance is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Defiance
    • Olinghouse ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Olinghouse is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinghouse
    • Lemmon Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Lemmon Valley is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemmon Valley
    • Sun Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Golden Valley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Golden Valley is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Valley
    • Panther Valley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Panther Valley is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panther Valley
    • Cold Springs
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Cold Springs is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Springs
    • Raleigh Heights
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Raleigh Heights is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Raleigh Heights
    • Border Town
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Border Town is located in Washoe County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Border Town
  • Lyon County
    • Fernley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Pershing County
    • Nightingale ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Nightingale is located in Pershing County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nightingale
  • Storey County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pyramid, with the one closest to Pyramid listed first.
    • Clark
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Clark is located in Storey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark
    • Thisby
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Thisby is located in Storey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thisby
    • Lockwood
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Lockwood is located in Storey County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockwood
  • Lassen County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pyramid, with the one closest to Pyramid listed first.
    • Calneva
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Calneva is located in Lassen County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calneva
    • Doyle
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Plumas County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pyramid, with the one closest to Pyramid listed first.
    • Chilcoot - Vinton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Chilcoot - Vinton is located in Plumas County (CA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chilcoot - Vinton
    • Chilcoot
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Vinton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Pyramid ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pyramid.

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 Pyramid - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Pyramid covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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

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

  • Clarks ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Clarks is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks
  • Thisby
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Thisby is located in Storey County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thisby
  • Vista
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Vista is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
  • Wadsworth
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Reno
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Reno is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reno
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 259,290 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reno <2>
  • Hafed
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Hafed is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hafed
  • Lawton
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Lawton is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
  • Anderson ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Anderson is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
    • Anderson has also been known as:
    • Junction House
    • Sparks Ranch
  • Huffakers ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Huffakers is located in Washoe County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffakers

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

Newspapers Published in Pyramid ...

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 80 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pyramid.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pyramid, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pyramid.

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 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 Pyramid:

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 Pyramid, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Pyramid) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.