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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 Dixon (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 Dixon. 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.

Dixon is located in Wasco 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 Wasco County: Clackamas, Gilliam, Hood River, Jefferson, Marion, Sherman, Wheeler & Klickitat (WA).

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

  • Wasco County     (The home county of Dixon)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixon, with the one closest to Dixon listed first.
    • Maupin
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Wapinitia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Wapinitia is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapinitia
    • Simnasho
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Simnasho is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simnasho
    • Shaniko
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Tygh Valley
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Pine Grove
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Pine Grove is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Grove
    • Wamic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine Hollow
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Pine Hollow is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Hollow
    • Antelope
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Kingsley ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Kingsley is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsley
    • Friend ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Friend is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Friend
    • Nansene
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Nansene is located in Wasco County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nansene
    • Dufur
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Jackson County
    • Pinehurst
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Pinehurst is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinehurst
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixon, with the one closest to Dixon listed first.
    • Mecca
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Mecca is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mecca
    • Warm Springs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Ashwood
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Madras
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Madras is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Madras
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 7,106 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Madras <1>
    • Donnybrook ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Donnybrook is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Donnybrook
      • Former names for Donnybrook:
      • Axehandle
      • Kilts
    • Metolius
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Sherman County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dixon, with the one closest to Dixon listed first.
    • Kent
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Rosebush ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Rosebush is located in Sherman County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosebush
    • Grass Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Dixon ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dixon.

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

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

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

  • Criterion Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Kelly Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Wapinitia Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Buzan Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Red Lake Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Simnasho Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Hot Springs Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Bakeoven Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Graveyard Butte Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Wamic Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Tygh Valley Pioneer Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tygh Valley Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Tygh Valley Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Tygh Valley.
    • The Tygh Valley Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Tygh Valley Cemetery
  • Continue List   (26 more) ...
    • Dry Creek Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Antelope Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Antelope Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)

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.<2>

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

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

  • Wapinitia
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Wapinitia is located in Wasco County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapinitia
  • Bakeoven
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Bakeoven is located in Wasco County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bakeoven
  • Tygh Valley
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Wamic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Antelope
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Kent
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Kingsley ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Kingsley is located in Wasco County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingsley
  • Nansene
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Nansene is located in Wasco County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nansene
  • Grass Valley
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Rutledge
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Rutledge is located in Sherman County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rutledge
  • Dufur
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Dixon ...

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 11 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dixon.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dixon, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dixon.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Dixon:

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