[or-roots] Re: Wasco County

[cchouk]

Dorothy, et al:

The USGS National Mapping Service web site has information on many
"historic" towns.  It's not responding at this moment, but the URL is:

Query Form For The United States And Its Territories
http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form

The town where my father was born ( in 1909 at Lomonta, OR), is one
of them.  If you have a GPS gizmo you can drive to just about any place
in the US with the latitude/longitue data you will get from USGS!  Lomonta
no longer exists, but I know exactly where it was.  :-)

The USGS web site gets heavy use at times, but if you keep trying you may
find information that is not available (at no cost) elsewhere.

Good hunting,
Cecil

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Dorothy Hungerford" <hungerford at znet.com>
To: <OREGON-TRAIL-L at rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 2:30 PM
Subject: Wasco County


> In the 1930 census I find a relative listed in District 43, Thompson,
Wasco
> Co.
> I can't find Thompson on the atlas or on a Google search. Does anyone know
> if this is/was a district of some town?
> Dorothy
> Soquel, California
>
>
>