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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Allen. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Allen to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Allen, please Contact Us.

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 Allen (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 Allen. 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 hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Allen is historic, it would have been located within present day Pima County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

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

  • Pima County     (The home county of Allen)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Allen, with the one closest to Allen listed first.
    • Narcho Santos
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narcho Santos
      • Narcho Santos is located in Pima County
    • Maish Vaya
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maish Vaya
      • Maish Vaya is located in Pima County
    • Logan City ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Logan City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan City
      • Logan City is located in Pima County
    • Nolic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolic
      • Nolic is located in Pima County
    • Ak Chin
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin
      • Ak Chin is located in Pima County
    • Pisinemo
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Ko Vaya
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ko Vaya
      • Ko Vaya is located in Pima County
    • Santa Rosa
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Rosa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Rosa
      • Santa Rosa is located in Pima County
    • Gu Oidak
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gu Oidak
      • Gu Oidak is located in Pima County
    • Wahak Hotrontk
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahak Hotrontk
      • Wahak Hotrontk is located in Pima County
    • Anegam
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Anegam
      • Anegam is located in Pima County
    • Comobabi
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comobabi
      • Comobabi is located in Pima County
  • Maricopa County
    • Kaka
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaka
      • Kaka is located in Maricopa County
  • Pinal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Allen, with the one closest to Allen listed first.
    • Chiapuk ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Chiapuk have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiapuk
      • Chiapuk is located in Pinal County
    • North Komelik
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Komelik
      • North Komelik is located in Pinal County

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

Newspapers Published in Allen ...

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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Allen.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Allen, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Allen.

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 helpful 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 Allen:

Cemeteries Near Allen ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Allen.

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 Allen covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Tohono O'odham Reservation Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sikul Himatk Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<5> to the southeast of Sells.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sikul Himatk Cemetery
  • Nolic Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Pisinimo Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Ak Chin Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • The Ak Chin Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Akchin Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ak Chin Cemetery
  • Santa Rosa Francisco Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Santa Rosa Francisco Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Santa Rosa Francisco Cemetery
  • Sil Nakya Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Cowlic Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Gu Vo Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Haivana Nakya Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Hickiwan Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Komlic Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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.

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

  • Quijotoa ‑ Historic
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quijotoa have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quijotoa
    • Quijotoa is located in Pima County

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

The official website for Pima County: www.co.pima.az.us/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Allen, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Allen) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Allen. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.1249, Longitude: -112.1218    
<6>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.




 

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