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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 Havasu Palms (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 Havasu Palms. 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 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.

Havasu Palms is located in San Bernardino County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of San Bernardino County: La Paz (AZ), Mohave (AZ), Inyo, Kern, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside & Clark (NV).

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

  • San Bernardino County     (The home county of Havasu Palms)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havasu Palms, with the one closest to Havasu Palms listed first.
    • Havasu Lake
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Havasu Lake
      • Havasu Lake is located in San Bernardino County
    • Parker Dam
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Bluewater
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluewater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
      • Bluewater is located in San Bernardino County
    • Earp
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Big River
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Vidal
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Vidal have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vidal
      • Vidal is located in San Bernardino County
  • La Paz County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havasu Palms, with the one closest to Havasu Palms listed first.
    • Parker Strip
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parker Strip have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker Strip
      • Parker Strip is located in La Paz County (AZ)
    • Cienega Springs
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cienega Springs
      • Cienega Springs is located in La Paz County (AZ)
    • Bluewater
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bluewater have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluewater
      • Bluewater is located in La Paz County (AZ)
    • Parker
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker
      • Parker is located in La Paz County (AZ)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,281 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parker <1>
    • Poston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Swansea ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Swansea have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Swansea
      • Swansea is located in La Paz County (AZ)
  • Mohave County (AZ)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Havasu Palms, with the one closest to Havasu Palms listed first.
    • Lake Havasu City
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Desert Hills
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Desert Hills have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Desert Hills
      • Desert Hills is located in Mohave County (AZ)
    • Franconia
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Franconia have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franconia
      • Franconia is located in Mohave County (AZ)
    • Powell ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
      • Powell is located in Mohave County (AZ)
    • Topock
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Fivemile Landing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fivemile Landing
      • Fivemile Landing is located in Mohave County (AZ)

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

Newspapers Published in Havasu Palms ...

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 35 newspapers that have been published in the area around Havasu Palms.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Havasu Palms, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Havasu Palms.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Havasu Palms:

Cemeteries Near Havasu Palms ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Havasu Palms.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

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.<5>

While we didn't find Havasu Palms in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Havasu Palms.

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

  • Franconia
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Franconia have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franconia
    • Franconia is located in Mohave County (AZ)
  • Powell ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Powell have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Powell
    • Powell is located in Mohave County (AZ)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Havasu Palms. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for San Bernardino County: www.sbcounty.gov/

The official website for State of California: https://www.ca.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>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- Havasu Palms) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Havasu Palms. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.3984, Longitude: -114.2789    
<4>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.
<5>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 Havasu Palms, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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