Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

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

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.

Another variation: Sandhill Station.

• A typical abbreviation for Sand Hill Station: Sand Hill Sta. (in Canada, 'Stn.' is the more common abbreviation.)

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 Sand Hill Station is historic, it would have been located within present day Churchill 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 Churchill County: Lander, Lyon, Mineral, Nye, Pershing & Washoe.

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

• Churchill County     (The home county of Sand Hill Station)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Sand Hill Station, with the one closest to Sand Hill Station listed first.
  • Sand Springs ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sand Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Springs
    • Sand Springs is located in Churchill County
  • Salt Wells
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salt Wells
    • Salt Wells is located in Churchill County
  • Nevada City ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nevada City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nevada City
    • Nevada City is located in Churchill County
  • Stillwater
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stillwater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stillwater
    • Stillwater is located in Churchill County
  • Island City ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
    • Island City is located in Churchill County
  • Fallon
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fallon
    • Fallon is located in Churchill County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,751 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fallon <3>
  • Eastgate
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eastgate have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eastgate
    • Eastgate is located in Churchill County
  • Ragtown ‑ Historic
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ragtown have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragtown
    • Ragtown is located in Churchill County
• Mineral County
  • Broken Hills ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broken Hills
    • Broken Hills is located in Mineral County

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

Newspapers Published in Sand Hill Station ...

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 22 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sand Hill Station.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sand Hill Station, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sand Hill Station.

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 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 Sand Hill Station:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Sand Hill Station ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sand Hill Station.

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 Sand Hill Station covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Wightman Ranch
  (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Wightman Ranch. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wightman Ranch
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2340999 <6>
• Fairview Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Fairview Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83927 <6>
• Rawhide Cemetery
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rawhide Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83965 <6>
• Stillwater Indian Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stillwater Indian Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2270217 <6>
• Gardens Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gardens Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Fallon.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gardens Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2200424 <6>
• St. Clair Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Clair Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83966 <6>
• Churchill County Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Churchill County Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Fallon.
  • The Churchill County Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Fallon Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Churchill County Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83919 <6>
• Allen Road Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Allen Road Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Fallon.
  • The Allen Road Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Eason Cemetery
  • Ferguson Cemetery
  • St. Clair Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Allen Road Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2340981 <6>
• Rosewood Drive Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • The Rosewood Drive Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Johnson Family Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosewood Drive Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2341001 <6>
• Broken Hills Gravesite
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Broken Hills Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2429354 <6>

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

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

• Eagleville ‑ Historic
  (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eagleville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagleville
  • Eagleville is located in Churchill County
• Hill ‑ Historic
  (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill
  • Hill is located in Churchill County
• Saint Clair
  (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Clair have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
  • Saint Clair is located in Churchill County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Churchill County: www.churchillcounty.org/

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