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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 Buckeye (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 Buckeye. 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 doctors and 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.

Buckeye is located in Maricopa 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 Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.

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

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

Cemeteries Near Buckeye ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Buckeye.

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

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

  • Louis B Hazelton Memorial Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • White Tanks Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Heath Grave
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Heath Grave
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Heath Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Cross Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Co-Op Village Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Sunwest Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunwest Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunwest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Russian Molokan Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Russian Molokan Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Russian Molokan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Sunland Memorial Park
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunland Memorial Park
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunland Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Glendale Memorial Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glendale Memorial Park
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Glendale Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • West Resthaven Park Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
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    • Beth Israel Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Israel Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beth Israel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Work Circle Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Work Circle Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Work Circle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Bosque Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bosque Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bosque Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Buckeye had a post office and no railroad service. In 2020, Buckeye had a population of 85,224 people.

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

  • Peoria
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Bosque
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bosque. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosque
    • Bosque is located in Maricopa County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Bosque
    • From Buckeye to Bosque
  • Estrella
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Estrella have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
    • Estrella is located in Maricopa County
  • Gila Bend
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Phoenix
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Buckeye ...

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 386 newspapers that have been published in the area around Buckeye.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Buckeye. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Buckeye and those printed in the larger area surrounding Buckeye.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<6> of Buckeye.

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 professional and volunteer 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 Buckeye:

The official website for Buckeye: www.buckeyeaz.org/

The official website for Maricopa County: www.maricopa.gov/

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>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>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.
<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 Buckeye, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<6>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- Buckeye) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Buckeye. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.3705, Longitude: -112.5836    









 

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