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 Nyssa (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 Nyssa. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Nyssa is located in Malheur 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 Malheur County: Canyon (ID), Owyhee (ID), Payette (ID), Washington (ID), Humboldt (NV), Baker, Grant & Harney.
Below are the counties that are near Nyssa. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Nyssa:
- Malheur County (The home county of Nyssa)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Owyhee
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Owyhee is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee
- Ontario
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Adrian
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Vale
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Jamieson
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Harper
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
- Ada County (ID)
- Star
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Canyon County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Apple Valley
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
- Apple Valley is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Valley
- Parma
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Roswell
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Roswell is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roswell
- Sand Hollow
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Sand Hollow is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Hollow
- Wilder
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Notus
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Greenleaf
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Weitz
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Weitz is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weitz
- Caldwell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Huston
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Middleton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Riverside
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Riverside is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Gem County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Letha
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Bramwell
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Bramwell is located in Gem County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramwell
- Emmett
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Owyhee County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Homedale
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Marsing
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Payette County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Buckingham
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Buckingham is located in Payette County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
- Fruitland
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- New Plymouth
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Washoe
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Washoe is located in Payette County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washoe
- Payette
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Washington County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Weiser
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Weiser is located in Washington County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weiser
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,463 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weiser <1>
- Eaton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Eaton is located in Washington County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Nyssa, see our County-by-County Page for Nyssa.
Cemeteries Near Nyssa ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Nyssa.
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 Nyssa - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Nyssa covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Nyssa Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
- Parma Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
- Owyhee Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- Roswell Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Evergreen Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- St. Johns Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Lower Boise Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
- Parkview Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
- Kennedy Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Washoe Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Falk Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Continue List (21 more) ...
- Valley View Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Wilder Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilder Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Wilder Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Wilder (ID).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80679 <2>
- Riverside Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Riverside Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Payette (ID).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80623 <2>
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, Nyssa had a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Nyssa had a population of 3,231 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Nyssa, with the one closest to Nyssa listed first.
- Owyhee
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Owyhee is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee
- Parma
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Ontario
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Notus
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Payette
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Vale
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Caldwell
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Middleton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Weiser
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Weiser is located in Washington County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weiser
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,463 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weiser <1>
- Star
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Nyssa. See our List of 1890's Communities around Nyssa.
Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Nyssa ...
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 70 newspapers that have been published in the area around Nyssa.
We have organized these newspapers into two lists:
- A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Nyssa. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Nyssa and those printed in the larger area surrounding Nyssa.
- An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Nyssa.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Nyssa:
- Websites specific to Oregon
- Pages specific to Malheur County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Ada County
- Canyon County
- Gem County
- Owyhee County
- Payette County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Oregon
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 Nyssa, 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' (or 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- Nyssa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |