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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 Black Canyon City (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 Black Canyon City. 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.

Name Variations for Black Canyon City ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Another variation: Black Canyon.

  • A typical abbreviation for Black Canyon City: Black Cyn. City (or less commonly used: Black Canyn. City or Black Cnyn. City)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Black Canyon City is located in Yavapai 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 Yavapai County: Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa & Mohave.

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

  • Yavapai County     (The home county of Black Canyon City)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Black Canyon City, with the one closest to Black Canyon City listed first.
    • Gillett ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
      • Gillett is located in Yavapai County
    • Tip Top ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
      • Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
    • Bumble Bee
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Columbia ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
      • Columbia is located in Yavapai County
    • Humbug ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humbug
      • Humbug is located in Yavapai County
    • Oro Belle ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Oro Belle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Belle
      • Oro Belle is located in Yavapai County
    • Fort Misery ‑ Historic
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Misery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Misery
      • Fort Misery is located in Yavapai County
    • Bradshaw City ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bradshaw City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradshaw City
      • Bradshaw City is located in Yavapai County
    • Crown King
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cleator ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleator
      • Cleator is located in Yavapai County
    • Middleton ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Middleton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
      • Middleton is located in Yavapai County
    • Minnehaha ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Minnehaha have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnehaha
      • Minnehaha is located in Yavapai County
    • Cordes Lakes
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Maricopa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Black Canyon City, with the one closest to Black Canyon City listed first.
    • New River
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Anthem
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Cave Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Carefree Foothills
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carefree Foothills
      • Carefree Foothills is located in Maricopa County
    • Carefree
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Arrowhead Ranch
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrowhead Ranch
      • Arrowhead Ranch is located in Maricopa County
    • Peacock Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Peacock Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peacock Village
      • Peacock Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Westbrook Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Westbrook Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westbrook Village
      • Westbrook Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Pinnacle Peak Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinnacle Peak Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinnacle Peak Village
      • Pinnacle Peak Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Wittmann
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Central Park Village
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Central Park Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Central Park Village
      • Central Park Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Circle City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Circle City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle City
      • Circle City is located in Maricopa County
    • Morristown
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Black Canyon City ...

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 25 newspapers that have been published in the area around Black Canyon City.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Black Canyon City. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Black Canyon City and those printed in the larger area surrounding Black Canyon City.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4> of Black Canyon City.

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 either 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 Black Canyon City:

Cemeteries Near Black Canyon City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Black Canyon City.

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 Black Canyon City covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Black Canyon City Municipal Memorial Park
    (Less than 2 miles to the south)
  • Gillett Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Gillett Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gillett Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2510175 <5>
  • Champie Mill Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Champie Mill Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • The Champie Mill Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Allen's Mill Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Champie Mill Cemetery
  • Columbia Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Columbia Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Columbia Cemetery
  • Champie Ranch Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Kentucks Gravesite
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kentucks Gravesite have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kentucks Gravesite
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57047 <5>
  • Crown King Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Bradshaw City Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Shelley Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Shelley Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shelley Cemetery
  • Minnehaha Flats Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Minnehaha Flats Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Minnehaha Flats Cemetery
  • Copperopolis Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Mayer Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (11 more) ...
    • Constellation Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Constellation Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Constellation Cemetery
    • Cave Creek Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cave Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cave Creek Cemetery
    • Palace Station Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Palace Station Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Palace Station Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2330138 <5>

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.<6>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Black Canyon City, with the one closest to Black Canyon City listed first.

  • Tip Top ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
    • Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
  • Bumble Bee
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Crown King
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Cordes ‑ Historic
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cordes
    • Cordes is located in Yavapai County
  • Big Bug ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Big Bug. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bug
    • Big Bug is located in Yavapai County
  • Briggs
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Briggs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
    • Briggs is located in Yavapai County
  • Cave Creek
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Mayer
    (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
  • Stoddard ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Stoddard. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoddard
    • Stoddard is located in Yavapai County
  • Walnut Grove
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County
  • Walker
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
    • Walker is located in Yavapai County

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

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

The official website for Yavapai County: www.co.yavapai.az.us/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.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>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>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Black Canyon City) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Black Canyon City. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.0716, Longitude: -112.1524    
<5>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.
<6>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 Black Canyon City, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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