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 Rondowa (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 Rondowa. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.
Rondowa is located in Wallowa 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 Wallowa County: Adams (ID), Idaho (ID), Nez Perce (ID), Baker, Umatilla, Union, Asotin (WA), Columbia (WA) & Garfield (WA).
Below are the counties that are near Rondowa. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Rondowa:
- Wallowa County (The home county of Rondowa)
- The following are listed by their distance from Rondowa, with the one closest to Rondowa listed first.
- Maxville ‑ Historic
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Maxville is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maxville
- Promise ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Promise is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Promise
- Wallowa
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Troy
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Troy is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
- Evans
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Evans is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evans
- Lostine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Flora ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Flora is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flora
- Umatilla County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rondowa, with the one closest to Rondowa listed first.
- Tollgate
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Tollgate is located in Umatilla County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tollgate
- Bingham Springs
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Bingham Springs is located in Umatilla County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bingham Springs
- Gibbon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Gibbon is located in Umatilla County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbon
- Union County
- The following are listed by their distance from Rondowa, with the one closest to Rondowa listed first.
- Elgin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Elgin is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,801 people
- Former names for Elgin:
- Fish Trap
- Indian Valley
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elgin <1>
- Summerville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Imbler
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Conley
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Conley is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conley
- Cove
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
- Island City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Island City is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,024 people
- Orodell ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
- Orodell is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Orodell
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Rondowa, see our County-by-County Page for Rondowa.
Cemeteries Near Rondowa ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rondowa.
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 Rondowa - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Rondowa covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Rondowa, with the one closest to Rondowa listed first.
- Mt. Pleasant Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
- Highland Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Pine Grove Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Galloway Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- Elgin Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Bramlet Memorial Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Indian Creek Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Eden Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Wallowa Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
- Summerville - Imbler Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summerville - Imbler Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Summerville - Imbler Cemetery is located between<2> the communities of Imbler and Summerville. The cemetery lies less than 2 miles<3> to the southeast of Summerville.
- Lostine Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lower Cove Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lower Cove Cemetery
- The Lower Cove Cemetery has also been known as:
- Wright Cemetery
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Nicoson Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Bartlett Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Lost Prairie Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 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 Rondowa in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Rondowa.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Rondowa, with the one closest to Rondowa listed first.
- Elgin
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Elgin is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elgin
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,801 people
- Former names for Elgin:
- Fish Trap
- Indian Valley
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Elgin <1>
- Wallowa
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Summerville
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- Imbler
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
- Lostine
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Alicel
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
- Alicel is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alicel
- Flora ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
- Flora is located in Wallowa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flora
- North Fork
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
- North Fork is located in Umatilla County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Fork
- Gibbon
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
- Gibbon is located in Umatilla County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gibbon
- Island City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
- Island City is located in Union County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,024 people
- Cove
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Rondowa. See our List of 1890's Communities around Rondowa.
Newspapers Published in Rondowa ...
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 10 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rondowa.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rondowa, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rondowa.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Rondowa:
- Websites specific to Oregon
- Pages specific to Wallowa County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Umatilla County
- Union 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> | To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Imbler and Summerville. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location. |
| <3> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rondowa) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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 Rondowa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |