Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Stockville. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Stockville to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Stockville, 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 Stockville (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 Stockville. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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 Stockville is historic, it would have been located within present day White Pine 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 White Pine County: Elko, Eureka, Lincoln, Nye, Juab (UT), Millard (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Below are the counties that are near Stockville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Stockville:
- White Pine County (The home county of Stockville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Stockville, with the one closest to Stockville listed first.
- Preston ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Preston is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Preston
- Willow Grove
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Willow Grove is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Grove
- Lund
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Copper Flat
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Copper Flat is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Flat
- Eberhardt ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Eberhardt is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eberhardt
- Ruth
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Green Springs ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Green Springs is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs
- Ely
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Ely is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,014 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ely <2>
- Keystone
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Keystone is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
- Lane City ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Lane City is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane City
- Former name for Lane City:
- Mineral City
- Treasure City ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Treasure City is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Treasure City
- Treasure City has also been known as:
- Treasure Hill
- Calumet ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Calumet is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calumet
- East Ely
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Nye County
- The following are listed by their distance from Stockville, with the one closest to Stockville listed first.
- Gold Point ‑ Historic
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Gold Point is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Point
- Allred ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Allred is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allred
- Duckwater
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Duckwater is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duckwater
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Stockville, see our County-by-County Page for Stockville.
Cemeteries Near Stockville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stockville.
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 Stockville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Stockville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Stockville, with the one closest to Stockville listed first.
- Preston Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Preston Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Lund Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lund Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Lund Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Lund.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1440360 <3>
- Ward Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ward Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ward Cemetery is located 12 miles [19.3 km]<4> to the south of Ely.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83971 <3>
- Bradshaw Ranch Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Keystone Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Treasure Hill Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Duckwater Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
- Taylor Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Taylor Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<4> to the southeast of Ely.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2175961 <3>
- Ely City Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Hamilton Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Eberhardt Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
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 Stockville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Stockville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Stockville, with the one closest to Stockville listed first.
- White River ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- White River is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White River
- Eberhardt ‑ Historic
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Eberhardt is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eberhardt
- Ely
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Ely is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ely
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,014 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ely <2>
- Taylor ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Taylor is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylor
- Hamilton ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Hamilton is located in White Pine County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton
- Duckwater
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Duckwater is located in Nye County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duckwater
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Stockville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Stockville.
Newspapers Published in Stockville ...
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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stockville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stockville, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stockville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with 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 Stockville:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to White Pine County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
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 Stockville, 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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Stockville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |