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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of Thisby during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Thisby was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

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 Thisby (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 Thisby. 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 Thisby ...

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: Thisbe.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Thisby is primarily located in Storey County. A portion of Thisby extends into Washoe 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 Storey County: Carson City, Lyon & Washoe.

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

  • Storey County     (The home county of Thisby)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thisby, with the one closest to Thisby listed first.
    • Clark
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clark
      • Clark is located in Storey County
    • Lockwood
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lockwood
      • Lockwood is located in Storey County
    • Lousetown ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Lousetown. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lousetown
      • Lousetown is located in Storey County
    • Virginia City Highlands
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Virginia City Highlands have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virginia City Highlands
      • Virginia City Highlands is located in Storey County
    • Flowery City ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Flowery City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowery City
      • Flowery City is located in Storey County
    • Virginia City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Gold Hill
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
      • Gold Hill is located in Storey County
    • American City ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for American City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for American City
      • American City is located in Storey County
    • American Flat ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for American Flat have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for American Flat
      • American Flat is located in Storey County
  • Churchill County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thisby, with the one closest to Thisby listed first.
    • Hazen
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazen
      • Hazen is located in Churchill County
    • Lahontan City ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lahontan City
      • Lahontan City is located in Churchill County
    • Diatom
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Diatom have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Diatom
      • Diatom is located in Churchill County
    • Ragtown ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ragtown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ragtown
      • Ragtown is located in Churchill County
  • Lyon County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thisby, with the one closest to Thisby listed first.
    • Fernley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Stagecoach
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stagecoach
      • Stagecoach is located in Lyon County
    • Silver Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Darwin ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Darwin
      • Darwin is located in Lyon County
    • Carson Rapids City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Carson Rapids City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carson Rapids City
      • Carson Rapids City is located in Lyon County
    • Fort Churchill ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Churchill
      • Fort Churchill is located in Lyon County
    • Sutro ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutro
      • Sutro is located in Lyon County
    • Davis Station ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Davis Station have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davis Station
      • Davis Station is located in Lyon County
    • Dayton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Johntown ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Johntown have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johntown
      • Johntown is located in Lyon County
    • Silver City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
      • Silver City is located in Lyon County
    • Mound House
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Pershing County
    • Nightingale ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nightingale
      • Nightingale is located in Pershing County
  • Washoe County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Thisby, with the one closest to Thisby listed first.
    • Olinghouse ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olinghouse have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olinghouse
      • Olinghouse is located in Washoe County
    • Fort Defiance ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Defiance. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Defiance
      • Fort Defiance is located in Washoe County
    • Wadsworth
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Spanish Springs
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spanish Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Springs
      • Spanish Springs is located in Washoe County
    • Vista
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vista have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
      • Vista is located in Washoe County
    • Nixon
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Hidden Valley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hidden Valley
      • Hidden Valley is located in Washoe County
    • Sparks
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Sun Valley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Panther Valley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Panther Valley
      • Panther Valley is located in Washoe County
    • Reno
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reno
      • Reno is located in Washoe County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 259,290 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reno <4>
    • Golden Valley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden Valley
      • Golden Valley is located in Washoe County

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

Newspapers Published in Thisby ...

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 100 newspapers that have been published in the area around Thisby.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Thisby, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Thisby.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Thisby:

Cemeteries Near Thisby ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Thisby.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Thisby, with the one closest to Thisby 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.<7>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Thisby had a post office and railroad service.

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

  • Clarks ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Clarks have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clarks
    • Clarks is located in Washoe County
  • Wadsworth
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Hafed
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hafed have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hafed
    • Hafed is located in Washoe County
  • Vista
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vista have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vista
    • Vista is located in Washoe County
  • Reno
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reno
    • Reno is located in Washoe County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 259,290 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reno <4>
  • Anderson ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Anderson have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anderson
    • Anderson is located in Washoe County
    • Anderson has also been known as:
    • Junction House
    • Sparks Ranch
  • Huffakers ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Huffakers
    • Huffakers is located in Washoe County
  • Fort Churchill ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Churchill
    • Fort Churchill is located in Lyon County
  • Steamboat
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Steamboat have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steamboat
    • Steamboat is located in Washoe County
  • Virginia City
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Sutro ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutro
    • Sutro is located in Lyon County
  • Gold Hill
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gold Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Hill
    • Gold Hill is located in Storey County
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Silver City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver City
      • Silver City is located in Lyon County
    • Dayton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Lawton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lawton
      • Lawton is located in Washoe County

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Thisby and then turned east". While Thisby could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Thisby as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Thisby could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

Since confusion between counties is common, we searched and weren't able to find another Nevada community named Thisby.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Thisby) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Thisby. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 39.5882, Longitude: -119.4213       In this case, the coordinates for Thisby have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.
<7>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 Thisby, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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