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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 Dollar (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 Dollar. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors 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.

Dollar is located in Linn 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 Linn County: Benton, Deschutes, Jefferson, Lane, Marion & Polk.

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

  • Linn County     (The home county of Dollar)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dollar, with the one closest to Dollar listed first.
    • Foster
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Holley
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Holley is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holley
    • Sweet Home
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Cascadia
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Crawfordsville
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Waterloo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Waterloo is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
    • Sodaville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Sodaville is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodaville
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
    • Brownsville
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • South Lebanon
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • South Lebanon is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Lebanon
    • Lacomb
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Lacomb is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacomb
    • Lebanon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Halsey
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Lane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dollar, with the one closest to Dollar listed first.
    • Vida
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Mabel
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Mabel is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mabel
    • Leaburg
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Marcola
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Finn Rock
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Blue River
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Walterville
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Thurston
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Coburg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • North Springfield
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • North Springfield is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Springfield
    • Fall Creek
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Fall Creek is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Creek
    • Jasper
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Dollar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dollar.

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

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

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

  • Wiley Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Sweet Home Valley Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Drury Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Ames Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Spring Family Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Lower Mabel Pioneer Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Mabel Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lower Mabel Pioneer Cemetery is located in Mabel.
    • The Lower Mabel Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mabel Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2501321 <2>
  • Crawfordsville Union Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Finley Pioneer Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finley Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Finley Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Crawfordsville.
    • The Finley Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • IOOF Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2240880 <2>
  • Marcola Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (68 more) ...
    • Berlin Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Renfrew Grave
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Whitcomb Island Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)

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 Dollar in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dollar.

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

  • Sweet Home
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Holley
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Holley is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holley
  • Crawfordsville
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Leaburg
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Waterloo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Waterloo is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
  • Mohawk
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Mohawk is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk
  • Walterville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Blue River
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Sodaville
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Sodaville is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodaville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
  • Brownsville
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Thurston
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Lacomb
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Lacomb is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacomb
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Lebanon
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Rowland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Rowland is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rowland
    • Coburg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Dollar ...

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 84 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dollar.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dollar, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dollar.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These helpful 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 Dollar:

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 Dollar, 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' (or 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- Dollar) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.