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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 McBee (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 McBee. 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 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.

McBee is located in Umatilla 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 Umatilla County: Grant, Morrow, Union, Wallowa, Benton (WA), Columbia (WA) & Walla Walla (WA).

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

  • Umatilla County     (The home county of McBee)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McBee, with the one closest to McBee listed first.
    • Barnhart
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
      • Barnhart is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnhart
    • Pendleton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Riverside
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Riverside is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
    • Tutuilla
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Tutuilla is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tutuilla
    • Mission
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Mission is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission
    • Kirkpatrick
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Kirkpatrick is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkpatrick
    • Havana
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Havana is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
    • Pilot Rock
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Cayuse
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Echo
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Echo is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 705 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Echo <1>
    • Adams
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Helix
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Stanfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Morrow County
    • Pine City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Pine City is located in Morrow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine City
  • Benton County (WA)
    • Plymouth
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Plymouth is located in Benton County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
  • Walla Walla County (WA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McBee, with the one closest to McBee listed first.
    • Touchet
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Wallula Junction
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Wallula Junction is located in Walla Walla County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallula Junction
    • Wallula
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Wallula is located in Walla Walla County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallula

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

Cemeteries Near McBee ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McBee.

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 McBee - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Olney Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Skyview Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Pond Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pond Cemetery
    • The Pond Cemetery has also been known as:
    • McKay Creek Cemetery
  • Despain Gulch Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Tutuilla Presbyterian Indian Mission Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Old Agency Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Agency Indian Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Nolin Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Pilot Rock Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • St. Andrews Mission Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
  • German Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Finland Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (29 more) ...
    • Greasewood Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greasewood Cemetery
      • The Greasewood Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Gallaher Cemetery
    • Holdman Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Vinson Cemetery
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Barnhart
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Barnhart is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnhart
  • Pendleton
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Fulton
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Fulton is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton
  • Yoakum
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Yoakum is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yoakum
  • Mission
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Mission is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission
  • Pilot Rock
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Havana
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Havana is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havana
  • Nolin
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Nolin is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolin
  • Nye
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Nye is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nye
  • Cayuse
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Vinson
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Vinson is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinson
  • Echo
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Echo is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 705 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Echo <1>
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Adams
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Helix
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Stanton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Stanton is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton

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

Newspapers Published in McBee ...

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 64 newspapers that have been published in the area around McBee.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McBee, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McBee.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 McBee:

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>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 McBee, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- McBee) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.