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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 Pacific City (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 Pacific City. 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 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 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.

Pacific City is located in Tillamook 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 Tillamook County: Clatsop, Columbia, Lincoln, Polk, Washington & Yamhill.

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

  • Tillamook County     (The home county of Pacific City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific City, with the one closest to Pacific City listed first.
    • Cloverdale
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Oretown
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Oretown is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oretown
    • Hebo
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Neskowin
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Beaver
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Bellwood ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Bellwood is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellwood
    • Dolph ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Dolph is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolph
    • Blaine
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Blaine is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blaine
    • Netarts
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Oceanside
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Tillamook
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Cape Meares
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Lincoln County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific City, with the one closest to Pacific City listed first.
    • Otis
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
    • Neotsu
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Rose Lodge
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Lincoln City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Cutler City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
      • Cutler City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler City
    • Kernville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Kernville is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kernville
    • Gleneden Beach
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Lincoln Beach
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Depoe Bay
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific City, with the one closest to Pacific City listed first.
    • Grand Ronde
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Buell
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Buell is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buell
    • Valsetz ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Valsetz is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valsetz
  • Yamhill County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific City, with the one closest to Pacific City listed first.
    • Willamina
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Sheridan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Pacific City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pacific City.

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 Pacific City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Woods IOOF Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Union Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Oretown Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • IOOF Hebo Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Nestucca Valley Community Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Gist Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Blaine Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Morris Family Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Pacific View Memorial Gardens
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • Sacred Heart Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Taft Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Holmes Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (21 more) ...

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 Pacific City in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Pacific City.

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

  • Woods
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Woods is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods
  • Oretown
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Oretown is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oretown
  • Meda
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Meda is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meda
  • Hebo
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Neskowin
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Beaver
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Dolph ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Dolph is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolph
  • Netarts
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Tillamook
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Grand Ronde
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Barnegat ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Barnegat is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnegat
    • Bay City
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Willamina
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Hobsonville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Hobsonville is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobsonville
    • Sheridan
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Pacific City ...

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 23 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pacific City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pacific City, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pacific City.

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 Pacific City:

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 Pacific City, 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- Pacific City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.