Our Genealogy Helper
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 Eldorado (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 Eldorado. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.
Eldorado is located in Malheur 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 Malheur County: Canyon (ID), Owyhee (ID), Payette (ID), Washington (ID), Humboldt (NV), Baker, Grant & Harney.
Below are the counties that are near Eldorado. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Eldorado:
- Malheur County (The home county of Eldorado)
- The following are listed by their distance from Eldorado, with the one closest to Eldorado listed first.
- Malheur City ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Malheur City is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malheur City
- Ironside
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Brogan
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jamieson
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Westfall ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Westfall is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfall
- Baker County
- The following are listed by their distance from Eldorado, with the one closest to Eldorado listed first.
- Bridgeport
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- China Town
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- China Town is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for China Town
- Rye Valley
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Rye Valley is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rye Valley
- Hereford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Durkee
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Weatherby
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Weatherby is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weatherby
- Lime ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Lime is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lime
- Auburn ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Auburn is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburn
- Unity
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Huntington
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Baker City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Baker City is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,876 people
- Baker City has also been known as:
- Baker
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baker City <1>
- Pocahontas ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Pocahontas is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pocahontas
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Eldorado, see our County-by-County Page for Eldorado.
Cemeteries Near Eldorado ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Eldorado.
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 Eldorado - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Eldorado covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Eldorado, with the one closest to Eldorado listed first.
- Malheur Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Bridgeport Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Clarksville Cemetery
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Ironside Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Rye Valley Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rye Valley Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rye Valley Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Rye Valley.
- The Rye Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
- Rye Valley Road Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39369 <2>
- Brogan Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pleasant Valley Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the southeast of Baker City.
- The Pleasant Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
- Alder Creek Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2252750 <2>
- Asa Fleetwood Family Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Durkee Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Boyer Family Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Lime - Dixie Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Auburn Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (16 more) ...
- Big Flat Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Dell Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Mt. Hope Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
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.<4>
While we didn't find Eldorado in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Eldorado.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Eldorado, with the one closest to Eldorado listed first.
- Malheur City ‑ Historic
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Malheur City is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malheur City
- Bridgeport
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
- Ironside
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Hereford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Durkee
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Pleasant Valley
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Pleasant Valley is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasant Valley
- Encina
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Encina is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Encina
- Weatherby
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Weatherby is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weatherby
- Dell ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Dell is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell
- Continue List (6 more) ...
- Auburn ‑ Historic
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Auburn is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Auburn
- Unity
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Huntington
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Baker City
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Baker City is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baker City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 9,876 people
- Baker City has also been known as:
- Baker
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Baker City <1>
- Conner Creek ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Conner Creek is located in Baker County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conner Creek
- Westfall ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Westfall is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westfall
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Eldorado. See our List of 1890's Communities around Eldorado.
Newspapers Published in Eldorado ...
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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Eldorado.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Eldorado, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Eldorado.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Eldorado:
- Websites specific to Oregon
- Pages specific to Malheur County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Oregon
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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Eldorado) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <4> | 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 Eldorado, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |