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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Kings Landing. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Kings Landing to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Kings Landing, please Contact Us.

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 Kings Landing (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 Kings Landing. 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 Kings Landing ...

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 have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Kings Landing: Kings Lndg. (or less commonly used: Kings Lndng.)
  • While the name of this community is Kings Landing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<2>. So Kings Landing may originally have been King's Landing.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Kings Landing might be written as King Landing.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Kings Landing is historic, it would have been located within present day Coos County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coos County: Curry & Douglas.

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

  • Coos County     (The home county of Kings Landing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kings Landing, with the one closest to Kings Landing listed first.
    • Coos City ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coos City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coos City
      • Coos City is located in Coos County
    • Coquille
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coquille have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coquille
      • Coquille is located in Coos County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,958 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Coquille <4>
    • Bunker Hill
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bunker Hill have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bunker Hill
      • Bunker Hill is located in Coos County
    • Coos Bay
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Eastside
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Charleston
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Cooston
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cooston
      • Cooston is located in Coos County
    • Parkersburg
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parkersburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersburg
      • Parkersburg is located in Coos County
    • North Bend
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for North Bend have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Bend
      • North Bend is located in Coos County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 9,744 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for North Bend <4>
    • Arago
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arago
      • Arago is located in Coos County
    • Norway
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Glasgow
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glasgow
      • Glasgow is located in Coos County
  • Curry County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kings Landing, with the one closest to Kings Landing listed first.
    • Langlois
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Denmark
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Denmark have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Denmark
      • Denmark is located in Curry County
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kings Landing, with the one closest to Kings Landing listed first.
    • Winchester Bay
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winchester Bay have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winchester Bay
      • Winchester Bay is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winchester Bay <4>
    • Reedsport
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reedsport have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reedsport
      • Reedsport is located in Douglas County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,103 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Reedsport <4>

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

Newspapers Published in Kings Landing ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kings Landing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kings Landing, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kings Landing.

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 Kings Landing:

Cemeteries Near Kings Landing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kings Landing.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • Haynes Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Haynes Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haynes Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38882 <6>
  • Sumner Pioneer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sumner Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sumner Pioneer Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39468 <6>
  • Masonic Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Coquille Pioneer Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
  • Sunset Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Norris - Barker Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Archer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Archer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Archer Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38548 <6>
  • Marshfield Pioneer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • South Slough Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the South Slough Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the South Slough Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39441 <6>
  • Myrtle Crest Memorial Gardens
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Ocean View Memory Gardens
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (48 more) ...
    • Randolph Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Hultin Thrush Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hultin Thrush Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • The Hultin Thrush Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Hultin Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hultin Thrush Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38928 <6>
    • Russell Cemetery
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Russell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Russell Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39367 <6>

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.

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

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

  • Coaledo
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coaledo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coaledo
    • Coaledo is located in Coos County
  • Coquille
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coquille have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coquille
    • Coquille is located in Coos County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,958 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Coquille <4>
  • Libby
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Libby have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libby
    • Libby is located in Coos County
  • Riverton
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riverton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverton
    • Riverton is located in Coos County
  • Fairview
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
    • Fairview is located in Coos County
  • Randolph
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Randolph have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Randolph
    • Randolph is located in Coos County
  • Parkersburg
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parkersburg have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parkersburg
    • Parkersburg is located in Coos County
  • Empire
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Empire have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire
    • Empire is located in Coos County
  • Lee ‑ Historic
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lee have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lee
    • Lee is located in Coos County
  • Arago
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arago
    • Arago is located in Coos County
  • Norway
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Gravelford
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gravelford
    • Gravelford is located in Coos County
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Bandon
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Myrtle Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Dora
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dora have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dora
      • Dora is located in Coos County

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

The official website for Coos County: www.co.coos.or.us/

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Kings Landing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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- Kings Landing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kings Landing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2596, Longitude: -124.2262       In this case, the coordinates for Kings Landing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.




 

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