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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 Moxee City (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 Moxee City. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Moxee City is located in Yakima County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Yakima County: Benton, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lewis, Pierce & Skamania.

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

  • Yakima County     (The home county of Moxee City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moxee City, with the one closest to Moxee City listed first.
    • Moxee
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Terrace Heights
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Terrace Heights is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terrace Heights
    • Union Gap
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Parker
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
      • Parker is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker
    • Yakima
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • South Broadway
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • South Broadway is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Broadway
    • Wapato
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Fruitvale
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Fruitvale is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fruitvale
    • Selah
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Buena
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • West Valley
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
      • West Valley is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Valley
    • Zillah
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Ahtanum
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Ahtanum is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ahtanum
  • Grant County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moxee City, with the one closest to Moxee City listed first.
    • Desert Aire
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Mattawa
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Beverly
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Wanapum Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Wanapum Village is located in Grant County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wanapum Village
  • Kittitas County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Moxee City, with the one closest to Moxee City listed first.
    • Hillside Siding
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Hillside Siding is located in Kittitas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside Siding
    • Kittitas
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Moxee City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Moxee City.

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 Moxee City - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Holland Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Terrace Heights Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Tahoma Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Yemowat Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Zillah Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • McCoy Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • West Hills Memorial Gardens
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Emeunot Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Sloutier Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Saluskin Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Wah-Lal-La-Kite Cemetery
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)

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

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

  • Moxee
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Parker
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Parker is located in Yakima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker
  • Yakima
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Selah
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Ahtanum
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Ahtanum is located in Yakima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ahtanum
  • Toppenish
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Roza
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Roza is located in Kittitas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roza
  • Cowiche
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Umtanum
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Umtanum is located in Kittitas County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Umtanum
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Satus
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Satus is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Satus
    • Tampico
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Tampico is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tampico
    • Thrall
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Thrall is located in Kittitas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Thrall
    • Holmes
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Holmes is located in Kittitas County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Holmes
    • Wenas
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Wenas is located in Yakima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wenas
    • Mabton
      (29 miles [46.7 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 Moxee City. See our List of 1890's Communities around Moxee City.

Newspapers Published in Moxee City ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Moxee City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Moxee City, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Moxee City.

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 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 Moxee City:

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' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Moxee City) 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 Moxee City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.