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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 Mill Camp (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 Mill Camp. 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 hospitals 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.

Mill Camp is located in Lane 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 Lane County: Benton, Deschutes, Douglas, Klamath, Lincoln & Linn.

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

  • Lane County     (The home county of Mill Camp)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mill Camp, with the one closest to Mill Camp listed first.
    • Lorane
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Divide ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Divide is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
    • Cottage Grove
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Saginaw
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Walker
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Walker is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
    • Cresswell
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Creswell
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Crow
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Crow is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow
    • Goshen
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Goshen is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
    • Dorena ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Eugene
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Veneta
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant Hill
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Douglas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mill Camp, with the one closest to Mill Camp listed first.
    • Curtin
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Drain
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Drain is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drain
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,201 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Drain <1>
    • Yoncalla
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Elkhead
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Elkhead is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead
    • Rice Hill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Isadore
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Isadore is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Isadore
    • Elkton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Kellogg
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Kellogg is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kellogg
    • Oakland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Old Town
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Old Town is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
    • Fair Oaks
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Fair Oaks is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Oaks
    • Sutherlin
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Scottsburg ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Mill Camp ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mill Camp.

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 Mill Camp - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Independent Order of Good Templars Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Crow Family Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Lorane Grange Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Comstock Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Silk Creek Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Hawley Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fir Grove Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Taylor - Lane Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Shields Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • McFarland Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Colvin Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Drain Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (91 more) ...
    • Walker Union Church Cemetery
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Heatherly Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Ensley Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 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.<2>

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

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

  • Lorane
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Comstock
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Comstock is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comstock
  • Royal
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Royal is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Royal
  • Divide ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Divide is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Divide
  • Cottage Grove
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Drain
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Drain is located in Douglas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drain
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,201 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Drain <1>
  • Walker
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Walker is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
  • Hadleyville
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Hadleyville is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hadleyville
  • Wallace ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Wallace is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallace
  • Yoncalla
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Cresswell
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Alma
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Alma is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alma
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Crow
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Crow is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow
    • Rice Hill
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • Elkhead
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Elkhead is located in Douglas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhead

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

Newspapers Published in Mill Camp ...

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 98 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mill Camp.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mill Camp, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mill Camp.

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 helpful 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 Mill Camp:

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 Mill Camp, 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Mill Camp) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.