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 Scottys Junction (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 Scottys Junction. 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 Scottys Junction ...

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.

• A typical abbreviation for Scottys Junction: Scottys Jct. (or less commonly used: Scottys Jctn.)

• While the name of this community is Scottys Junction, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Scottys Junction may originally have been Scotty's Junction.
  
  Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Scottys Junction might be written as Scotty Junction.

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 doctors and 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.

Scottys Junction is located in Nye 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 Nye County: Inyo (CA), Churchill, Clark, Esmeralda, Eureka, Lander, Lincoln, Mineral & White Pine.

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

• Nye County     (The home county of Scottys Junction)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Scottys Junction, with the one closest to Scottys Junction listed first.
  • Bonnie Claire ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bonnie Claire have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bonnie Claire
    • Bonnie Claire is located in Nye County
  • Carrs Camp ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrs Camp
    • Carrs Camp is located in Nye County
  • Hot Springs
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hot Springs
    • Hot Springs is located in Nye County
  • Rhyolite ‑ Historic
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rhyolite
    • Rhyolite is located in Nye County
• Esmeralda County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Scottys Junction, with the one closest to Scottys Junction listed first.
  • Gold Point
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Point
    • Gold Point is located in Esmeralda County
    • Former names for Gold Point:
    • Hornsilver
    • Lime Point
  • Lida
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lida
    • Lida is located in Esmeralda County
    • Lida has also been known as:
    • Alida Valley
    • Alida
    • Lida Valley
  • Goldfield
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goldfield
    • Goldfield is located in Esmeralda County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Goldfield <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Scottys Junction ...

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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Scottys Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Scottys Junction, 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 Scottys Junction.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Scottys Junction:

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

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

Cemeteries Near Scottys Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Scottys Junction.

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

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

• Springdale Cemetery
  (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Springdale Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springdale Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2564306 <6>
• Scotty's Castle Gravesite
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Scotty's Castle Gravesite is located 31 miles [49.9 km]<4> to the south of Stovepipe Wells (CA).
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scotty's Castle Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2440146 <6>
• Lida Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lida Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2218021 <6>
• Lida Upper Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lida Upper Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Lida.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lida Upper Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2255455 <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.<7>

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

• Lida
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lida
  • Lida is located in Esmeralda County
  • Lida has also been known as:
  • Alida Valley
  • Alida
  • Lida Valley

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

The official website for Nye County: www.co.nye.nv.us/

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