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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Mountain View. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Mountain View to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Mountain View, please Contact Us.

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 Mountain View (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 Mountain View. 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 Mountain View ...

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: Mountainview.

  • A typical abbreviation for Mountain View: Mountain Vw.

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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Mountain View is historic, it would have been located within present day Jackson 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 Jackson County: Siskiyou (CA), Douglas, Josephine & Klamath.

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

  • Jackson County     (The home county of Mountain View)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain View, with the one closest to Mountain View listed first.
    • Eagle Point
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Brownsboro
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownsboro have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsboro
      • Brownsboro is located in Jackson County
    • White City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for White City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White City
      • White City is located in Jackson County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for White City <2>
    • Shady Cove
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shady Cove have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shady Cove
      • Shady Cove is located in Jackson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,119 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shady Cove <2>
    • Sams Valley
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sams Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sams Valley
      • Sams Valley is located in Jackson County
    • Trail
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Central Point
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Central Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Point
      • Central Point is located in Jackson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 19,117 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Central Point <2>
    • Butte Falls
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Butte Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butte Falls
      • Butte Falls is located in Jackson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 457 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Butte Falls <2>
    • Medford
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Gold Hill
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Phoenix
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Phoenix have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoenix
      • Phoenix is located in Jackson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,678 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Phoenix <2>
    • Jacksonville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Talent
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Talent have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Talent
      • Talent is located in Jackson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 6,700 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Talent <2>
  • Douglas County
  • Josephine County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mountain View, with the one closest to Mountain View listed first.
    • Fruitdale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fruitdale have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitdale
      • Fruitdale is located in Josephine County
    • Grants Pass
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Greenback ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenback
      • Greenback is located in Josephine County
    • Placer
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Placer
      • Placer is located in Josephine County
    • Murphy
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Golden ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Golden
      • Golden is located in Josephine County
    • Williams
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • New Hope
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Hope
      • New Hope is located in Josephine County
    • Redwood
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Redwood have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwood
      • Redwood is located in Josephine County

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

Newspapers Published in Mountain View ...

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 96 newspapers that have been published in the area around Mountain View.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Mountain View, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Mountain View.

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 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 Mountain View:

Cemeteries Near Mountain View ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mountain View.

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

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

  • John Mathews Pioneer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Eagle Point National Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Eagle Point National Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Eagle Point National Cemetery
  • Veterans Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Veterans Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Veterans Cemetery
  • Reese Creek Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reese Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reese Creek Cemetery
  • Antelope Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Antelope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Antelope Cemetery
  • Miller Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Miller Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Miller Cemetery
  • Brownsboro Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Brownsboro Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brownsboro Cemetery
  • Antioch Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Antioch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Antioch Cemetery
  • Central Point IOOF Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Central Point IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • The Central Point IOOF Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Central Point IOOF Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Central Point IOOF Cemetery
  • Nichols Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nichols Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nichols Cemetery
  • Johnson Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Butte Falls Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Butte Falls Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Butte Falls Cemetery
  • Continue List   (43 more) ...
    • Pankey Park Cemetery
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Meadow Graves
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Meadow Graves have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Meadow Graves
    • Medford IOOF Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Medford IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Medford IOOF Cemetery

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.

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

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

  • Eagle Point
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Brownsboro
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brownsboro have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brownsboro
    • Brownsboro is located in Jackson County
  • Wellen ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wellen have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wellen
    • Wellen is located in Jackson County
  • Table Rock
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Table Rock have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Table Rock
    • Table Rock is located in Jackson County
  • Etna ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Etna have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
    • Etna is located in Jackson County
  • Beagle
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Beagle have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beagle
    • Beagle is located in Jackson County
  • Sams Valley
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sams Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sams Valley
    • Sams Valley is located in Jackson County
  • Tolo
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Tolo have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tolo
    • Tolo is located in Jackson County
  • Central Point
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Central Point have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Point
    • Central Point is located in Jackson County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 19,117 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Central Point <2>
  • Lakecreek
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lakecreek have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakecreek
    • Lakecreek is located in Jackson County
  • Spikenard ‑ Historic
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spikenard have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spikenard
    • Spikenard is located in Jackson County
  • Medford
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Gold Hill
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Jacksonville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Phoenix
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Phoenix have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoenix
      • Phoenix is located in Jackson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,678 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Phoenix <2>

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

The official website for Jackson County: www.co.jackson.or.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Mountain View, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>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- Mountain View) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Mountain View. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4940, Longitude: -122.7939       In this case, the coordinates for Mountain View have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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