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 Rockville (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 Rockville. 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 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.
Rockville 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 Rockville. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rockville:
- Malheur County (The home county of Rockville)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rockville, with the one closest to Rockville listed first.
- Sheaville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Sheaville is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheaville
- Jordan Valley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Danner ‑ Historic
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Danner is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danner
- Canyon County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rockville, with the one closest to Rockville listed first.
- Riverside
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Riverside is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Walters Ferry
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
- Walters Ferry is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walters Ferry
- Huston
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Wilder
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Melba
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
- Greenleaf
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Bowmont
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
- Bowmont is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bowmont
- Owyhee County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rockville, with the one closest to Rockville listed first.
- Rockville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rockville is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockville
- Marsing
(23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
- De Lamar ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- De Lamar is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Lamar
- Homedale
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
- Silver City
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Murphy
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
- Empire City ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Empire City is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Empire City
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rockville, see our County-by-County Page for Rockville.
Cemeteries Near Rockville ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rockville.
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 Rockville - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rockville covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rockville, with the one closest to Rockville listed first.
- Rockville Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Camp Lyon Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Watson Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Reynolds Creek Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Marsing - Homedale Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jordan Valley Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- Wilson Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Peaceful Valley Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peaceful Valley Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Peaceful Valley Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<2> to the east of Marsing (ID).
- The Peaceful Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
- Knowlton Heights Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2153586 <3>
- Jean Baptiste Charbonneau Grave
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pleasant Valley Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
- Fargo Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- Wilder Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- 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 <3>
- Fairview Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Pleasant Ridge Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
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 Rockville in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rockville.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Rockville, with the one closest to Rockville listed first.
- Rockville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Rockville is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockville
- Sheaville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Sheaville is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheaville
- Reynolds
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Reynolds is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reynolds
- Jordan Valley
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
- De Lamar ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- De Lamar is located in Owyhee County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for De Lamar
- Silver City
(26 miles [41.8 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 Rockville. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rockville.
Newspapers Published in Rockville ...
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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rockville.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rockville, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rockville.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Rockville:
- Websites specific to Oregon
- Pages specific to Malheur County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Canyon County
- Owyhee 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> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rockville) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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> | 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 Rockville, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |