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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 San Marine (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 San Marine. 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 and hospitals 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.

San Marine 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 San Marine. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to San Marine:

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of San Marine)
    • The following are listed by their distance from San Marine, with the one closest to San Marine listed first.
    • Tillicum Beach
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Tillicum Beach is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tillicum Beach
    • Yachats
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Waldport
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Westwood Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Westwood Village is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westwood Village
    • Seal Rock
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Tidewater
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Yaquina
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
      • Yaquina has also been known as:
      • Yaquina City
    • South Beach
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Newport
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Newport Heights
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Newport Heights is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Newport Heights
    • Toledo
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Elk City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Elk City is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk City
  • Benton County
  • Lane County
    • The following are listed by their distance from San Marine, with the one closest to San Marine listed first.
    • Alpha
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Alpha is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
    • Deadwood
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Mapleton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Florence
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Point Terrace
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Point Terrace is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Terrace
    • Swisshome
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Glenada
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Glenada is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenada
    • Blachly
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Dunes City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Dunes City is located in Lane County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dunes City
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,412 people

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

Cemeteries Near San Marine ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of San Marine.

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 San Marine - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Yachats Memorial Park
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • Alder Grove Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Memorial Home Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Carson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Bray Family Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bray Family Cemetery
    • The Bray Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Stonefield Beach Cemetery
  • Fern Ridge Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Tidewater Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Madera Grave
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Glenwood Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Indian Creek Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Lone Fir Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Eureka Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (24 more) ...
    • Lobster Valley Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lobster Valley Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lobster Valley Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<3> to the southwest of Alsea.
      • The Lobster Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Charles Hendrix Memorial Gardens
      • Hendrix - Lobster Valley Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2246942 <2>
    • Toledo Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • 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
      (22 miles [35.4 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 San Marine in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of San Marine.

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

  • Yaquina
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Yaquina is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaquina
    • Yaquina has also been known as:
    • Yaquina City
  • Alpha
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Alpha is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpha
  • Siuslaw ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Siuslaw is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Siuslaw
  • Deadwood
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Alsea
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
  • Florence
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Acme
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Acme is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acme
  • Point Terrace
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Point Terrace is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Point Terrace
  • Glenada
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Glenada is located in Lane County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenada

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

Newspapers Published in San Marine ...

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 37 newspapers that have been published in the area around San Marine.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of San Marine, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for San Marine.

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 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 San Marine:

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>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- San Marine) 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 San Marine, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.