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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Wahmonie. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Wahmonie to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Wahmonie, 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 Wahmonie (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 Wahmonie. 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 Wahmonie ...

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.

Wahmonie has also been known as: Horn Silver Mine.

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 and hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Wahmonie is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Wahmonie. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Wahmonie:

  • Nye County     (The home county of Wahmonie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Wahmonie, with the one closest to Wahmonie listed first.
    • Mercury
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Amargosa ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Amargosa have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amargosa
      • Amargosa is located in Nye County
      • Amargosa has also been known as:
      • Amargosa Station
      • Amagoshe
      • Anorgosa
      • Johnnie Siding
    • Amargosa Valley
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Crystal
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Johnnie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Johnnie
      • Johnnie is located in Nye County
  • Clark County

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Wahmonie:

Cemeteries Near Wahmonie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Wahmonie.

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).

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

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

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

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 Wahmonie, 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 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>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.




 

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