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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 Lakeview (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 Lakeview. 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 Lakeview ...

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.

Another variation: Lake View.

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.

Lakeview is located in Lake County and is the County Seat.

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 Lake County: Modoc (CA), Washoe (NV), Deschutes, Harney & Klamath.

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

  • Lake County     (The home county of Lakeview)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lakeview, with the one closest to Lakeview listed first.
    • New Pine Creek
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Adel
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Plush
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Modoc County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lakeview, with the one closest to Lakeview listed first.
    • Fairport
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
      • Fairport is located in Modoc County (CA)
    • New Pine Creek
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Pine Creek
      • New Pine Creek is located in Modoc County (CA)
    • Fort Bidwell
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Lakeview ...

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 Lakeview.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Lakeview. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Lakeview and those printed in the larger area surrounding Lakeview.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2> of Lakeview.

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 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 Lakeview:

Cemeteries Near Lakeview ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lakeview.

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

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

  • Sunset Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunset Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Cemetery
  • Sunset Park Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunset Park Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Lakeview.
    • The Sunset Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Lakeview Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Park Cemetery
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the IOOF Cemetery
  • West Side Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Side Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Side Cemetery
  • New Pine Creek Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Pine Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Pine Creek Cemetery
  • Willow Ranch Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Ft. Bidwell Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Ft. Bidwell Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Fort Bidwell (CA).
    • The Ft. Bidwell Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Surprise Valley Fort Bidwell Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Bidwell Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #253437 <4>

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.<5>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Lakeview had a population of 770 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Lakeview had a population of 2,333 people.

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

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

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

The official website for Lake County: www.lakecountyor.org

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

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>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 from Point A (ie- Lakeview) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lakeview. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1859, Longitude: -120.3473    
<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>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.
<5>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 Lakeview, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024