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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 Lone Star (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 Lone Star. 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.

Lone Star 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 Lone Star. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lone Star:

  • Linn County     (The home county of Lone Star)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lone Star, with the one closest to Lone Star listed first.
    • Bryant City ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Bryant City is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryant City
    • Gates
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Idanha
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • New Idanha
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Mill City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cascadia
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Lyons
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Foster
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Lacomb
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Lacomb is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacomb
    • Jordan
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jordan is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
    • Sweet Home
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Waterloo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Waterloo is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
  • Lane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lone Star, with the one closest to Lone Star listed first.
    • McKenzie Bridge
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Blue River
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Belknap Springs
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Belknap Springs is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belknap Springs
  • Marion County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lone Star, with the one closest to Lone Star listed first.
    • Detroit
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Mehama
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Silver Falls City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Silver Falls City is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver Falls City
    • Stayton
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Sublimity
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Drake Crossing
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Drake Crossing is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drake Crossing
    • West Stayton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Lone Star ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lone Star.

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 Lone Star - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Whitcomb Island Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Spring Family Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Fox Valley Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Lewis Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Wiley Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • John Shelton Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jordan Catholic Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Bilyeu Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Lacomb Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Berlin Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (32 more) ...
    • Sweet Home Valley Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Humphrey Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Gaines Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)

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.<2>

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

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

  • Niagara
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Niagara is located in Marion County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Niagara
  • Gates
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
  • Detroit
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Mill City
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Fox Valley
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Fox Valley is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Valley
  • Lyons
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Lacomb
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Lacomb is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lacomb
  • Jordan
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jordan is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jordan
  • Sweet Home
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Waterloo
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Waterloo is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Waterloo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
  • Kingston
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Kingston is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kingston
  • Sodaville
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Sodaville is located in Linn County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sodaville
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 346 people
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Holley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Holley is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holley
    • Hullt ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Hullt is located in Marion County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hullt
    • Scio
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Lone Star ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lone Star.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lone Star, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lone Star.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Lone Star:

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>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 Lone Star, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lone Star) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.