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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 Pinehurst (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 Pinehurst. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Pinehurst is located in 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 Pinehurst. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pinehurst:

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

Cemeteries Near Pinehurst ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pinehurst.

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

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

  • Wamic Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wamic Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wamic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Tygh Valley Pioneer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Graveyard Butte Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Graveyard Butte Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Graveyard Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the IOOF Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Friend Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Kelly Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kelly Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kelly Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Wapinitia Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Wapinitia Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Wapinitia Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Catholic Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Catholic Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Catholic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Kingsley Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kingsley Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kingsley Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Warner Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Warner Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Warner Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Henderson Pioneer Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Henderson Pioneer Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Henderson Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Red Lake Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Lake Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Red Lake Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (33 more) ...
    • Buzan Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • IOOF Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the IOOF Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Obrist Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Obrist Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Obrist Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.<4>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Pinehurst ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pinehurst.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pinehurst, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pinehurst.

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 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 Pinehurst:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Pinehurst. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

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

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 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.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>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 Pinehurst, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<5>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- Pinehurst) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Pinehurst. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 45.2424, Longitude: -121.2950    









 

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