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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 Disston (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 Disston. 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 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.

Disston is located in Lane County.

To see how the shape of Oregon's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lane County: Benton, Deschutes, Douglas, Klamath, Lincoln & Linn.

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

  • Lane County     (The home county of Disston)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Disston, with the one closest to Disston listed first.
    • Culp Creek
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Dorena ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Wildwood
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Wildwood is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
    • Westfir
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Willamette City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Willamette City is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Willamette City
    • Oakridge
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Dexter
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Lowell
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Cottage Grove
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Saginaw
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Trent
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Trent is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent
    • Unity
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Divide ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Divide is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Disston, with the one closest to Disston listed first.
    • Curtin
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Elkhead
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Elkhead is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
    • Yoncalla
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Drain
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Drain is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drain
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,201 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Drain <1>
    • North Umpqua Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • North Umpqua Village is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Umpqua Village
    • Idleyld Park
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Rice Hill
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Fair Oaks
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Fair Oaks is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Oaks
    • Isadore
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Isadore is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isadore

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

Cemeteries Near Disston ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Disston.

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 Disston - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Disston, with the one closest to Disston listed first.

  • Doolittle Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Broumbaugh Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Brumbaugh Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Sears Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Lone Pine Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Hyland Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Shields Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Taylor - Lane Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Bemis Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • McFarland Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Forestvale Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Walker Union Church Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (48 more) ...
    • Fir Grove Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hawley Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Cloverdale Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Wildwood
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Wildwood is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wildwood
  • Lowell
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Cottage Grove
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Dexter
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Wallace ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Wallace is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
  • Trent
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Trent is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent
  • Walker
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Walker is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
  • Divide ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Divide is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
  • Cresswell
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Pleasant Hill
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Royal
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Royal is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
  • Comstock
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Comstock is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Jasper
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Elkhead
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Elkhead is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
    • Natron
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Natron is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Natron

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

Newspapers Published in Disston ...

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 68 newspapers that have been published in the area around Disston.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Disston, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Disston.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Disston:

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>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 Disston, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Disston) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.