Sierra County, California, United States

Details for Sierra County

Name

Sierra County

Place Type

County

Located in

California, United States

County Seat

Downieville

Coordinates

Latitude		39.5832342		39° 34' 59.6" N
Longitude		-120.5510468		120° 33' 03.8" W

Population

3,318

Elevation

2,228 m

Surrounding Counties

Washoe (Nevada) NE
Nevada SW
Yuba SW
Butte W
Plumas NW
Lassen N

USGS GNIS FeatureID

277310

Histopolis Place ID

151270665

Updated Apr 15, 2011

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Genealogy Resources for Sierra County

10 Resources; Select a Cemetery below for additional resources specific to that Cemetery.

Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials [Find A Grave]
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=csr&CScnty=228 (25 Aug 2009)

The Political Graveyard: Sierra County, Calif. [The Political Graveyard]
A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 138,150 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.
http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/CA/SI.html#CEM (13 Mar 2005)

Sierra County, California Cemetery Records [Interment.net]
Cemetery records of Sierra County, California
http://www.interment.net/us/ca/sierra.htm (16 May 2010)

Sierra Co., CA-Tombstone Transcription Project [USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project]
http://www.usgwtombstones.org/california/sierra.html (16 Aug 2010)

Sierra County CA Cemetery Records [California Genealogy and History Archives]
http://www.calarchives4u.com/cemeteries/sierra-cemeteries.html (3 Dec 2010)

(page title not available) [USGenWeb Archives]
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ca/sierra/cemetries.html

Linkpendium > Genealogy > USA > California > Sierra County [Linkpendium]
The definitive directory to Genealogy > USA > California > Sierra County
http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/CA/Sierra/ (17 Jan 2010)

Sierra County, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Wikipedia]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_County,_California (14 May 2010)

Cemeteries in or near Sierra County - ePodunk [ePodunk]
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/localList.php?local=10893&locTGroup=Cemeteries&direction=down (3 Dec 2008)

Sierra County, California CA, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk [ePodunk]
Sierra County, California CA, county profile, with sections on demographics, cemeteries, the economy, government, history and politics.
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=10893 (3 Nov 2008)

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1 Survey, 11 Ranges, 44 Townships

The Mount Diablo Meridian survey governs land descriptions in all or part of Sierra County. You can navigate to any of the 44 survey townships that overlap Sierra County using the navigation tool below.

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Cities of Sierra County

1 City, 53 Unincorporated Places (u.p.) (Unincorporated Place (u.p.) is assumed unless noted)

Alleghany	American Hill (historical u.p.)	Antelope (historical u.p.)	Bassetts
Brandy City	Cal-Ida	Calpine	Calvada (historical u.p.)
Campbell Hot Springs	Carvin Creek Homesites	Centerville (historical u.p.)	Cold Spring (historical u.p.)
Deadwood (historical u.p.)	Downieville	Eureka (historical u.p.)	Forest
Gibsonville	Goodyears Bar	Grass Flat	Grizzly Gulch (historical u.p.)
Haskell Creek Homesites	Howland Flat	Indian Hill (historical u.p.)	Loganville
Loyalton (city)	Maredith Mill	McMahons (historical u.p.)	Middle Waters (historical u.p.)
Milton (historical u.p.)	Minnesota Flat	Monte Cristo (historical u.p.)	Morristown
Mount Pleasant	Mount Vernon (historical u.p.)	Nelson Mill	Oxford Mill
Peavine	Pike	Plum Valley	Plumbago
Poker Flat	Poverty Hill	Queen City	Randolph
Saint Louis	Sattley	Scales	Sierra City
Sierra Subdivision	Sierraville	Tippecanoe (historical u.p.)	Union Hill
Unionville (historical u.p.)	Verdi-Sierra Pines

Cemeteries of Sierra County

4 Cemeteries, 1 Alternate Name (*) (Cemetery is assumed unless noted)

Eureka	Pine Grove	Saint Louis	Sierraville
St. Louis (*)

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