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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 Natron (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 Natron. 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.

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

  • Lane County     (The home county of Natron)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Natron, with the one closest to Natron listed first.
    • Jasper
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Thurston
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Pleasant Hill
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Springfield
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Goshen
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Goshen is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
    • North Springfield
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • North Springfield is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Springfield
    • Walterville
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Fall Creek
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Fall Creek is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fall Creek
    • Trent
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Trent is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent
    • Dexter
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Cresswell
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Creswell
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Natron, with the one closest to Natron listed first.
    • Monroe
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Bellfountain Junction
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Douglas County
  • Linn County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Natron, with the one closest to Natron listed first.
    • Harrisburg
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Crawfordsville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Holley
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Holley is located in Linn County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holley
    • Brownsville
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Halsey
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Sweet Home
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Foster
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Natron ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Natron.

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

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

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

  • Smith - Weyerhauser Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
  • Mt. Vernon Pioneer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Vernon Pioneer Cemetery
    • The Mt. Vernon Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mt. Vernon Cemetery
  • Jasper - Wallace Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Springfield Memorial Gardens
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Mulholland Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Pleasant Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Goshen Grange 561 Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Sellers Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Camp Creek Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Old Springfield IOOF Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Pioneer Memorial Cemetery Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Memorial Cemetery Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pioneer Memorial Cemetery Park is located in Springfield.
    • The Pioneer Memorial Cemetery Park has also been known as:
    • Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery
    • Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #39451 <2>
  • Springfield IOOF Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (92 more) ...
    • Fall Creek Christian Church Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Stafford Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Laurel Grove Cemetery
      (6 miles [9.7 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.<3>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Natron had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Jasper
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Thurston
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Pleasant Hill
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Goshen
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Goshen is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Goshen
  • Springfield
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Trent
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Trent is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trent
  • Walterville
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Cresswell
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Dexter
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Mohawk
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Mohawk is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mohawk
  • Eugene
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Lowell
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Coburg
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Walker
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Walker is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
    • Leaburg
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Natron ...

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 112 newspapers that have been published in the area around Natron.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Natron, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Natron.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Natron:

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