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Introduction ...

Although we found mention of White Pine City during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how White Pine City 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 White Pine City (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 White Pine City. 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 White Pine City ...

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 occur.

Another variation: Whitepine City.

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 southwest 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 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.

White Pine City is located in 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 White Pine City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to White Pine City:

  • White Pine County     (The home county of White Pine City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from White Pine City, with the one closest to White Pine City listed first.
    • Treasure City ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • 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
    • Eberhardt ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Eberhardt is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eberhardt
    • Hamilton ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Hamilton is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton
    • Belmont Mill ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Belmont Mill is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont Mill
    • Green Springs ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Green Springs is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Green Springs
    • Illipah ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Illipah is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Illipah
    • Willow Grove
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Willow Grove is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willow Grove
    • Copper Flat
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Copper Flat is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper Flat
    • Ruth
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Keystone
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Keystone is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keystone
    • Lane City ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Lane City is located in White Pine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane City
      • Former name for Lane City:
      • Mineral City
  • Nye County
    • The following are listed by their distance from White Pine City, with the one closest to White Pine City listed first.
    • Bull Fork ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Bull Fork is located in Nye County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bull Fork
    • Duckwater
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Duckwater is located in Nye County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Duckwater
    • Gold Point ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Gold Point is located in Nye County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gold Point

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

Cemeteries Near White Pine City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of White Pine City.

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 White Pine City - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for White Pine City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from White Pine City, with the one closest to White Pine City 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.<5>

While we didn't find White Pine City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of White Pine City.

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

  • Eberhardt ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Eberhardt is located in White Pine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eberhardt
  • Hamilton ‑ Historic
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Hamilton is located in White Pine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamilton
  • Duckwater
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • 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 White Pine City. See our List of 1890's Communities around White Pine City.

Newspapers Published in White Pine City ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around White Pine City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of White Pine City, there are papers which were published within 2 miles [3.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for White Pine City.

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 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 White Pine City:

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 south past White Pine City and then turned east". While White Pine City could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added White Pine City 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 White Pine City 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 White Pine City.
<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 '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- White Pine City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<5>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 White Pine City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.