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 Valley (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 Valley. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.
Valley is located in Clark 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 Clark County: Mohave (AZ), Inyo (CA), San Bernardino (CA), Lincoln & Nye.
Below are the counties that are near Valley. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Valley:
- Clark County (The home county of Valley)
- The following are listed by their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
- Sunrise Manor
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Sunrise Manor is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunrise Manor
- North Las Vegas
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- North Las Vegas is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Las Vegas
- Population from the 2020 Census: 260,098 people
- Hoover City ‑ Historic
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Hoover City is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoover City
- Las Vegas
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Winchester
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Winchester is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester
- Paradise
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Paradise is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise
- Bracken ‑ Historic
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Bracken is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bracken
- Whitney
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Whitney is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
- Boulder Junction
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Boulder Junction is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Junction
- Spring Valley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Spring Valley is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spring Valley
- Henderson
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Dry Lake
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Dry Lake is located in Clark County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dry Lake
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Valley, see our County-by-County Page for Valley.
Cemeteries Near Valley ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Valley.
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 Valley - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Valley covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
- Woodlawn Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Las Vegas Paiute Tribe Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Palm Desert Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Desert Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Palm Desert Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Palm Desert Cemetery has also been known as:
- Desert Memorial Cemetery
- Palm Desert Downtown Cemetery
- Palm Desert Memorial Cemetery
- Palm Downtown Cemetery
- Palm Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #234877 <2>
- Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Bunkers Eden Vale Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Bunkers Eden Vale Cemetery
- Eden Vale Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1969734 <2>
- Palm Memorial Park Northwest
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
- Bunkers Memory Gardens Memorial Park
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
- Davis Memorial Park
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Davis Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Davis Memorial Park is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Davis Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Paradise Memorial Gardens
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2185906 <2>
- Palm Eastern Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palm Eastern Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Palm Eastern Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The Palm Eastern Cemetery has also been known as:
- Palm Memorial Park
- Palm Valley View Memorial Park
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #177895 <2>
- King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Las Vegas.
- The King David Memorial Chapel & Cemetery has also been known as:
- King David Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981460 <2>
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Barbara G. Edwards 9-11 Memorial
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Palm Mortuary Memorial Park
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Wilson Family Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
- Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Boulder City.
- The Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery has also been known as:
- Veterans Memorial Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1979925 <2>
- Boulder City Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Hoover Dam Gravesite
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Valley. See our List of 1890's Communities around Valley.
Newspapers Published in Valley ...
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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around Valley.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Valley, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Valley.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Valley:
- Websites specific to Nevada
- Pages specific to Clark 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Valley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |