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 La Pine (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 La Pine. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.

La Pine is located in Deschutes 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 Deschutes County: Crook, Harney, Jefferson, Klamath, Lake, Lane & Linn.

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

• Deschutes County     (The home county of La Pine)
  • The following are listed by their distance from La Pine, with the one closest to La Pine listed first.
  • Three Rivers
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Three Rivers have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Rivers
    • Three Rivers is located in Deschutes County
  • Sunriver
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunriver
    • Sunriver is located in Deschutes County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunriver <2>
  • Deschutes River Woods
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deschutes River Woods have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deschutes River Woods
    • Deschutes River Woods is located in Deschutes County
  • Bend
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bend
    • Bend is located in Deschutes County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 101,886 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bend <2>
• Klamath County
  • The following are listed by their distance from La Pine, with the one closest to La Pine listed first.
  • Gilchrist
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilchrist
    • Gilchrist is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gilchrist <2>
  • Crescent
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent
    • Crescent is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crescent <2>
  • Crescent Lake
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crescent Lake
    • Crescent Lake is located in Klamath County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Crescent Lake <2>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of La Pine ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around La Pine.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of La Pine. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of La Pine and those printed in the larger area surrounding La Pine.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3> of La Pine.

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 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 La Pine:

• Websites specific to Oregon
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the Oregon State Archives

• Pages specific to Deschutes County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Klamath County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Oregon
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Oregon
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Oregon
  • Cemeteries of Deschutes County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Oregon
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Oregon

Cemeteries Near La Pine ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of La Pine.

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 La Pine covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

• Improved Order of Redmen Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Improved Order of Redmen Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Improved Order of Redmen Cemetery
• LaPine Community Cemetery
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the LaPine Community Cemetery is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the west of La Pine.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the LaPine Community Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38960 <4>
• Masten Cemetery
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Masten Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Masten Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39104 <4>
• Breese Cemetery
  (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • The Breese Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Paulina Prairie Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Breese Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38601 <4>
• Harper Cemetery
  (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Harper Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • The Harper Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Allen Ranch Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Harper Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38870 <4>
• Billy Quinn Gravesite
  (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Billy Quinn Gravesite have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Billy Quinn Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38582 <4>
• Greenwood Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #38849 <4>
• Pilot Butte Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pilot Butte Cemetery is located in Bend.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pilot Butte Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39268 <4>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for La Pine. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Deschutes County: www.co.deschutes.or.us/

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