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Nevada County Addresses: Compiled Notes (5 pages)
Nevada County Addresses is where to go to find who resided where and when, or what firm operated where or when, over a period of time. It is not an alphabetical white-page or yellow-page directory, but a collection of address listings gathered from several town and county directories, and many telephone directories and other sources of addresses over the decades, published as early as 1856 and as late as 2023. The listings are ordered by street name and number, not by the occupant's personal or firm name, in inverse chronological order of the dates of the listings. The result is a timeline of occupants at a given address between the latest listing at the top to the earliest listing at the bottom.
Compilation began in 2002 with listings from "Polk's 1988 Directory, completed 10-10-2002". Addresses found in "Union Best of 2022, 2023" were added by 12-21-2023. Listings for "N. City" [Nevada] in Brown & Dallison's 1856 Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory, the earliest source of addresses used in this compilation, were compiled in early 2003 -- according to the prefatory "Compilation Notes", which is titled "Completed Entries and notes".
While addresses have been culled from many kinds of sources spanning 1856-2023, practically all were found in telephone directories, which got thicker during the 20th century as more households acquired phones, and after World War II when local populations significantly grew. Practically all listings were compiled between 2002 and 2006, and not coincidentally, the last telephone directory listed in the notes is "AT&T Telephone directory 2006 (residential)". As mobile phones became more popular, telephone companies were no longer required to print and distribute directories, which were restricted to landlines.
Hence the timelines of most residential addresses in Nevada County Addresses end with 2006. Some non-residential timelines -- such as those for businesses, schools, religious organizations, and public offices -- may continue after 2006 if their addresses were culled from ads or notices in newspapers and other publications, printed or online, that publicize their interests.
What rescues this essentially analog source from archival dust is that, though compiled without a database in mind, its digitized scans can be freely and productively searched. Careful researchers will want to check the cited sources even if they do not suspect error -- simply because this compilation is at best a secondary source of addresses that have been translated, rather than simply copied, from primary sources that may themselves be faulty.
Compilation began in 2002 with listings from "Polk's 1988 Directory, completed 10-10-2002". Addresses found in "Union Best of 2022, 2023" were added by 12-21-2023. Listings for "N. City" [Nevada] in Brown & Dallison's 1856 Nevada, Grass Valley and Rough and Ready Directory, the earliest source of addresses used in this compilation, were compiled in early 2003 -- according to the prefatory "Compilation Notes", which is titled "Completed Entries and notes".
While addresses have been culled from many kinds of sources spanning 1856-2023, practically all were found in telephone directories, which got thicker during the 20th century as more households acquired phones, and after World War II when local populations significantly grew. Practically all listings were compiled between 2002 and 2006, and not coincidentally, the last telephone directory listed in the notes is "AT&T Telephone directory 2006 (residential)". As mobile phones became more popular, telephone companies were no longer required to print and distribute directories, which were restricted to landlines.
Hence the timelines of most residential addresses in Nevada County Addresses end with 2006. Some non-residential timelines -- such as those for businesses, schools, religious organizations, and public offices -- may continue after 2006 if their addresses were culled from ads or notices in newspapers and other publications, printed or online, that publicize their interests.
What rescues this essentially analog source from archival dust is that, though compiled without a database in mind, its digitized scans can be freely and productively searched. Careful researchers will want to check the cited sources even if they do not suspect error -- simply because this compilation is at best a secondary source of addresses that have been translated, rather than simply copied, from primary sources that may themselves be faulty.
Author: Searls Historical Library
Publisher: Searls Historical Library, Nevada County Historical Society
Published: On-going compilation began 2002
Subjects: Addresses, Streets, Building Numbers, Occupants, Residents, Firms, Town Directories, Phone Books, Nevada County, Grass Valley, Nevada City
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Publisher: Searls Historical Library, Nevada County Historical Society
Published: On-going compilation began 2002
Subjects: Addresses, Streets, Building Numbers, Occupants, Residents, Firms, Town Directories, Phone Books, Nevada County, Grass Valley, Nevada City
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