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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 Agua Linda (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 Agua Linda. 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 northeast 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 north.

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 north 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.

Agua Linda is located in Santa Cruz County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Santa Cruz County: Cochise & Pima.

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

  • Santa Cruz County     (The home county of Agua Linda)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Agua Linda, with the one closest to Agua Linda listed first.
    • Amado
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Tubac
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Tumacacori
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Tumacacori - Carmen
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Tumacacori - Carmen is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tumacacori - Carmen
    • Otero ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Otero is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Otero
    • Alto ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
      • Alto is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alto
    • Madera Canyon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Rio Rico Northeast
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Rio Rico Northeast is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico Northeast
    • Rio Rico Northwest
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
      • Rio Rico Northwest is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico Northwest
    • Salado ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Salado is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Salado
    • Calabasas ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
      • Calabasas is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calabasas
    • Rio Rico
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Rio Rico Southwest
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
      • Rio Rico Southwest is located in Santa Cruz County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rio Rico Southwest
  • Pima County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Agua Linda, with the one closest to Agua Linda listed first.
    • Arivaca Junction
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
      • Arivaca Junction is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arivaca Junction
    • Green Valley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Continental ‑ Historic
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Continental is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Continental
    • Sahuarita
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Arivaca
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Greaterville ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Greaterville is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaterville
    • East Sahuarita
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • East Sahuarita is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sahuarita
    • Helvetia ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Helvetia is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helvetia
    • Corona de Tucson
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Corona de Tucson is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corona de Tucson
    • Summit
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Summit is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
    • Vail
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Agua Linda ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Agua Linda.

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 Agua Linda - one of the links might be able to help.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Agua Linda, with the one closest to Agua Linda 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.<4>

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

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

  • Tubac
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Calabasas ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
    • Calabasas is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Calabasas
  • Arivaca
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Oro Blanco ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Oro Blanco is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Blanco
  • Greaterville ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Greaterville is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaterville
  • Sonoita
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Nogales
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Nogales is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nogales
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 20,107 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nogales <1>
  • Harshaw ‑ Historic
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Harshaw is located in Santa Cruz County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harshaw

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

Newspapers Published in Agua Linda ...

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 46 newspapers that have been published in the area around Agua Linda.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Agua Linda, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Agua Linda.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Agua Linda:

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>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 from Point A (ie- Agua Linda) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Agua Linda, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.