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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Pioneer City. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Pioneer City to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Pioneer City, please Contact Us.

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 Pioneer 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 Pioneer 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Pioneer City is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Pioneer City. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Pioneer City:

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Pioneer City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pioneer City, with the one closest to Pioneer City listed first.
    • Elk City
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Elk City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk City
    • Toledo
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Eddyville
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Siletz
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Logsden
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Newport Heights
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Newport Heights is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Heights
    • Yaquina
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
      • Yaquina has also been known as:
      • Yaquina City
    • Newport
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • South Beach
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Otter Rock
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Seal Rock
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Depoe Bay
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Benton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pioneer City, with the one closest to Pioneer City listed first.
    • Summit
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Summit is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
    • Blodgett
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Kings Valley
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Wren
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Wren is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wren
    • Alsea
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Flynn
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Flynn is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flynn
    • Philomath
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Corvallis
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Lewisburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Lewisburg is located in Benton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisburg
  • Polk County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Pioneer City, with the one closest to Pioneer City listed first.
    • Valsetz ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Valsetz is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valsetz
    • Falls City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Airlie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Airlie is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
    • Bridgeport
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Bridgeport is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bridgeport
    • Lewisville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Lewisville is located in Polk County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville

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

Cemeteries Near Pioneer City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Pioneer 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 Pioneer City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Elk City Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Chitwood Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
  • Eddy Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
  • Toledo Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • 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.
  • Eddyville Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Paul Washington Indian Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Nortons Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Wigle Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Harlan Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (52 more) ...
    • Mulkey Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Fern Ridge Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Leslie Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)

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.

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

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

  • Yaquina
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
    • Yaquina has also been known as:
    • Yaquina City
  • Summit
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Summit is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
  • Blodgett
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Hoskins
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Hoskins is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoskins
  • Harris
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Harris is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harris
  • Wren
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Wren is located in Benton County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wren
  • Kings Valley
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Alsea
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Philomath
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Falls City
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Airlie
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Airlie is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Airlie
  • Lewisville
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Lewisville is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville
  • Corvallis
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Simpson
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Simpson is located in Polk County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Simpson

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

Newspapers Published in Pioneer 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 31 newspapers that have been published in the area around Pioneer City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Pioneer City, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Pioneer 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 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 Pioneer City:

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Pioneer City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Pioneer City) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.