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Introduction ...

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

We've added Vistillas to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Vistillas, 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 Vistillas (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 Vistillas. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Vistillas is historic, it would have been located within present day Lake County.

To see how the shape of Oregon's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Lake County: Modoc (CA), Washoe (NV), Deschutes, Harney & Klamath.

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

  • Lake County     (The home county of Vistillas)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vistillas, with the one closest to Vistillas listed first.
    • Lakeview
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • New Pine Creek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Klamath County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vistillas, with the one closest to Vistillas listed first.
    • Bly
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Haynesville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haynesville
      • Haynesville is located in Klamath County
  • Modoc County (CA)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vistillas, with the one closest to Vistillas listed first.
    • Fairport
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairport
      • Fairport is located in Modoc County (CA)
    • New Pine Creek
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for New Pine Creek
      • New Pine Creek is located in Modoc County (CA)

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

Newspapers Published in Vistillas ...

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 Vistillas.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Vistillas, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Vistillas.

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 Vistillas:

Cemeteries Near Vistillas ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vistillas.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

  • West Side Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the West Side Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the West Side Cemetery
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the IOOF Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the IOOF Cemetery
  • Sunset Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunset Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Cemetery
  • Sunset Park Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunset Park Cemetery is located outside and to the north of Lakeview.
    • The Sunset Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Lakeview Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunset Park Cemetery
  • Haynesville Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • The Haynesville Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Lorella Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Haynesville Cemetery
  • New Pine Creek Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the New Pine Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the New Pine Creek Cemetery
  • Willow Ranch Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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 Vistillas in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Vistillas.

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

  • Lakeview
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Bly
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Haynesville
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haynesville
    • Haynesville is located in Klamath County
  • New Pine Creek
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Langell Valley
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Langell Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Langell Valley
    • Langell Valley is located in Klamath County

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

The official website for Lake County: www.lakecountyor.org

The official website for State of Oregon: https://www.oregon.gov/

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 Vistillas, 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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Vistillas) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Vistillas. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1665, Longitude: -120.7483       In this case, the coordinates for Vistillas have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>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.




 

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