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 Tyrol (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 Tyrol. 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 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.
Tyrol is located in Elko 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 Elko County: Cassia (ID), Owyhee (ID), Twin Falls (ID), Eureka, Humboldt, Lander, White Pine, Box Elder (UT) & Tooele (UT).
Below are the counties that are near Tyrol. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Tyrol:
- Elko County (The home county of Tyrol)
- The following are listed by their distance from Tyrol, with the one closest to Tyrol listed first.
- Carlin
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Moleen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Moleen is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moleen
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Bullion is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
- Hunter ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Hunter is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hunter
- Elko
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Coin ‑ Historic
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Coin is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coin
- Spring Creek
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Jiggs
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jiggs is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jiggs
- Former names for Jiggs:
- Hylton
- Mound Valley
- Skelton
- Eureka County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tyrol, with the one closest to Tyrol listed first.
- Palisade ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Palisade is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisade
- Barth ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Barth is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barth
- Primeaux
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Primeaux is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Primeaux
- Harney ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Harney is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harney
- Beowawe
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Dunphy
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
- Dunphy is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunphy
- Shoshone ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Shoshone is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
- Shoshone has also been known as:
- Shoshone Point
- Crescent Valley
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
- Lander County
- The following are listed by their distance from Tyrol, with the one closest to Tyrol listed first.
- Kampos ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
- Kampos is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kampos
- Argenta ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Argenta is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Tyrol, see our County-by-County Page for Tyrol.
Cemeteries Near Tyrol ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tyrol.
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 Tyrol - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Tyrol covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Tyrol, with the one closest to Tyrol listed first.
- Carlin Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carlin Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Carlin Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Carlin.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83914 <2>
- Palisade Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Pioneers Grave
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Pine Valley Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Maidens Grave Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Beowawe Indian Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beowawe Indian Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Beowawe Indian Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the southeast of Beowawe.
- The Beowawe Indian Cemetery has also been known as:
- Indian Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246892 <2>
- Burns Memorial Garden
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Elko City Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elko City Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Elko City Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Elko.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83924 <2>
- Elko County Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Masonic Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Masonic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Masonic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Elko.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #83950 <2>
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.<4>
While we didn't find Tyrol in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Tyrol.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Tyrol, with the one closest to Tyrol listed first.
- Palisade ‑ Historic
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Palisade is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisade
- Cluro ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Cluro is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cluro
- Moleen
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Moleen is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moleen
- Bullion ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Bullion is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bullion
- Beowawe
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Shoshone ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Shoshone is located in Eureka County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone
- Shoshone has also been known as:
- Shoshone Point
- Elko
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Lee ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Lee is located in Elko County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
- Argenta ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Argenta is located in Lander County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Argenta
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Tyrol. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tyrol.
Newspapers Published in Tyrol ...
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 27 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tyrol.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tyrol, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tyrol.
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 Tyrol:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Elko County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Eureka County
- Lander County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Nevada
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 from Point A (ie- Tyrol) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Tyrol, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |