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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 R Corner (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 R Corner. 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 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.

R Corner is located in Clallam County.

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

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

  • Clallam County     (The home county of R Corner)
    • The following are listed by their distance from R Corner, with the one closest to R Corner listed first.
    • Little Oklahoma
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Little Oklahoma is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Little Oklahoma
    • Carlsborg
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • River Road
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • River Road is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for River Road
    • Old Town
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Old Town is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Old Town
    • Port Angeles
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Sequim
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Bell Hill
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Bell Hill is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bell Hill
    • Port Williams
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
      • Port Williams is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Williams
    • Blyn
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Blyn is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blyn
    • Elwha
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Elwha is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elwha
    • Joyce
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Port Crescent ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Port Crescent is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Crescent
  • Island County
    • The following are listed by their distance from R Corner, with the one closest to R Corner listed first.
    • San de Fuca
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • San de Fuca is located in Island County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San de Fuca
    • Coupeville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from R Corner, with the one closest to R Corner listed first.
    • Gardiner
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Adelma Beach
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Adelma Beach is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Adelma Beach
    • Leland
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Leland is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
    • Irondale ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Irondale is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irondale
    • Port Hadlock - Irondale
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Port Townsend
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Chimacum
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Port Hadlock
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Quilcene
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Marrowstone
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Nordland
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Beaver Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Beaver Valley is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Beaver Valley
  • San Juan County

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

Cemeteries Near R Corner ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of R Corner.

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 R Corner - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Mt. Angeles Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Sequim View Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Jamestown Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Ocean View Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Port Crescent Pioneer Memorial Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Harling Point Chinese Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Laurel Grove Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Ross Bay Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • St. Mary's Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Mary's Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Mary's Cemetery is located in the vicinity of Metchosin (BC)
    • The St. Mary's Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Metchosin Pioneer Cemetery
    • St. Mary the Virgin Anglican Church Cemetery
    • St. Mary The Virgin Church Yard Cemetery
    • St. Mary The Virgin Churchyard Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2459848 <2>
  • Quadra Street Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Veteran's Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Congregation Emanu-El Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Quilcene Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Colwood Pioneer Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Hatley Memorial Gardens
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hatley Memorial Gardens
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hatley Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located in Langford (BC).
      • The Hatley Memorial Gardens has also been known as:
      • Colwood Burial Park
      • Colwood Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #639374 <2>

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

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

  • Rena
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Rena is located in Clallam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rena
  • Port Angeles
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Port Williams
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Port Williams is located in Clallam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Williams
  • Blyn
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Blyn is located in Clallam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blyn
  • Port Discovery ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Port Discovery is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Discovery
  • Port Crescent ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Port Crescent is located in Clallam County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Port Crescent
  • Leland
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Leland is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leland
  • Irondale ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Irondale is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irondale
  • Port Townsend
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Chimacum
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Quilcene
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • San de Fuca
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • San de Fuca is located in Island County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San de Fuca
    • Coupeville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Port Ludlow
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Fairholm
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Fairholm is located in Clallam County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairholm

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

Newspapers Published in R Corner ...

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 50 newspapers that have been published in the area around R Corner.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of R Corner, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for R Corner.

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 R Corner:

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 R Corner, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- R Corner) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.