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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 Stanfield Junction (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 Stanfield Junction. 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.

Name Variations for Stanfield Junction ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Stanfield Junction: Stanfield Jct. (or less commonly used: Stanfield Jctn.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 and hospitals 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.

Stanfield Junction is located in Umatilla 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 Umatilla County: Grant, Morrow, Union, Wallowa, Benton (WA), Columbia (WA) & Walla Walla (WA).

Below are the counties that are near Stanfield Junction. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Stanfield Junction:

  • Umatilla County     (The home county of Stanfield Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stanfield Junction, with the one closest to Stanfield Junction listed first.
    • Stanfield
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Echo
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Echo is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 705 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Echo <1>
    • Hermiston
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Hinkle
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Hinkle is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hinkle
    • Cold Springs
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Cold Springs is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Springs
    • Ordnance ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • Ordnance is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ordnance
    • Power City
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Power City is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Power City
    • Umatilla
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Barnhart
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Barnhart is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnhart
    • Pendleton
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Riverside
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Riverside is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
    • Mission
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
      • Mission is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mission
  • Morrow County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stanfield Junction, with the one closest to Stanfield Junction listed first.
    • Irrigon
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Pine City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Pine City is located in Morrow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine City
    • Alpine
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Alpine is located in Morrow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
    • Boardman
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Benton County (WA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stanfield Junction, with the one closest to Stanfield Junction listed first.
    • Plymouth
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Plymouth is located in Benton County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plymouth
    • Paterson
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Highland
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Highland is located in Benton County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland
    • Finley
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Finley is located in Benton County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Finley
  • Walla Walla County (WA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Stanfield Junction, with the one closest to Stanfield Junction listed first.
    • Wallula Junction
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Wallula Junction is located in Walla Walla County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallula Junction
    • Wallula
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Wallula is located in Walla Walla County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallula

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

Cemeteries Near Stanfield Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Stanfield Junction.

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 Stanfield Junction - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Foster Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Koontz Gravesite
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Koontz Gravesite
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Koontz Gravesite is located outside and to the southeast of Echo.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2439415 <2>
  • Echo Memorial Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Siphon Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Baumgardner Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Pleasant View Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Hermiston Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Nolin Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Umatilla Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Sunset Hills Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Despain Gulch Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (23 more) ...

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.<3>

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

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

  • Echo
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
    • Echo is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Echo
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 705 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Echo <1>
  • Nolin
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Nolin is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolin
  • Cold Springs
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Cold Springs is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cold Springs
  • Yoakum
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Yoakum is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yoakum
  • Umatilla
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Barnhart
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Barnhart is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Barnhart
  • Juniper
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Juniper is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Juniper
  • Alpine
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Alpine is located in Morrow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alpine
  • Galloway ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Galloway is located in Morrow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galloway
  • Vinson
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Vinson is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vinson
  • Pendleton
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Fulton
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Fulton is located in Umatilla County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fulton
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Nye
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Nye is located in Umatilla County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nye
    • Wallula Junction
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Wallula Junction is located in Walla Walla County (WA)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallula Junction
    • Lena
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Lena is located in Morrow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lena

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

Newspapers Published in Stanfield Junction ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Stanfield Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Stanfield Junction, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Stanfield Junction.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Stanfield Junction:

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>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 Stanfield Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Stanfield Junction) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.