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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 Calva (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 Calva. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Calva is located in Graham 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 Graham County: Apache, Cochise, Gila, Greenlee, Navajo, Pima & Pinal.

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

  • Graham County     (The home county of Calva)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calva, with the one closest to Calva listed first.
    • Bylas
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
    • Emery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Emery
      • Emery is located in Graham County
    • Fort Thomas
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Ashurst
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ashurst
      • Ashurst is located in Graham County
    • Eden
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eden have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Eden is located in Graham County
    • Klondyke ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Klondyke
      • Klondyke is located in Graham County
    • Bryce
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryce
      • Bryce is located in Graham County
    • Pima
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pima
      • Pima is located in Graham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,588 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pima <1>
  • Gila County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Calva, with the one closest to Calva listed first.
    • Peridot
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • San Carlos
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Cutter
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutter
      • Cutter is located in Gila County

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

Cemeteries Near Calva ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Calva.

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

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

  • Hinton Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hinton Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hinton Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Emery Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Emery Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Emery Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Old Ft. Thomas Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Ft. Thomas Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Old Ft. Thomas Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lower Peridot Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Ashurst Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ashurst Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ashurst Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Upper Peridot Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • McEuen Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McEuen Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the McEuen Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<4> to the southwest of Ashurst.
  • Elgo Dam Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • San Carlos Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Northgate Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Salazar Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
  • Klondyke Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Klondyke Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Klondyke Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Glenbar Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glenbar Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Glenbar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Bryce Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bryce Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bryce Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Pima Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pima Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pima 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>

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

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

  • Fort Thomas
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • San Carlos
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
  • Bryce
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bryce
    • Bryce is located in Graham County
  • Pima
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pima
    • Pima is located in Graham County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,588 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pima <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Calva ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Calva.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Calva, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Calva.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we 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 Calva:

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

The official website for Graham County: www.graham.az.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>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Calva) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Calva. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.1806, Longitude: -110.1865       In this case, the coordinates for Calva have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Calva, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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