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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 Palisades (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 Palisades. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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 Palisades is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Benton, Lane, Polk & Tillamook.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Pacific Palisades)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific Palisades, with the one closest to Pacific Palisades listed first.
    • Lincoln Beach
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Gleneden Beach
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
    • Depoe Bay
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Kernville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Kernville is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kernville
    • Cutler City
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Cutler City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutler City
    • Otter Rock
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Lincoln City
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Siletz
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Neotsu
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Otis
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Newport Heights
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Newport Heights is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Heights
    • Logsden
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Benton County
    • Summit
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Summit is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific Palisades, with the one closest to Pacific Palisades listed first.
    • Valsetz ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Valsetz is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valsetz
    • Grand Ronde
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Falls City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Tillamook County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pacific Palisades, with the one closest to Pacific Palisades listed first.
    • Neskowin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Oretown
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Oretown is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oretown
    • Dolph ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Dolph is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolph
    • Bellwood ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Bellwood is located in Tillamook County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellwood
    • Pacific City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Cloverdale
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Hebo
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Pacific Palisades ...

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

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

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

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

  • Josephine Young Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Taft Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Pacific View Memorial Gardens
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Paul Washington Indian Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Morris Family Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Toledo Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toledo Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Toledo Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Toledo.
  • Elk City Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Chitwood Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Wigle Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Eddyville Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (27 more) ...
    • Eddy Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Nortons Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Oretown Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)

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>

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

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

  • Yaquina
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
    • Yaquina has also been known as:
    • Yaquina City
  • Neskowin
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
  • Meda
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Meda is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meda
  • Oretown
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Oretown is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oretown
  • Dolph ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Dolph is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dolph
  • Woods
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Woods is located in Tillamook County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woods
  • Grand Ronde
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Summit
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Summit is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
  • Hebo
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Pacific Palisades ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pacific Palisades.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pacific Palisades, 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 Pacific Palisades.

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 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 Pacific Palisades:

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 Pacific Palisades, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Pacific Palisades) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.