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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 Campo Bonito (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 Campo Bonito. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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.

Campo Bonito is located in Coconino 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 Coconino County: Gila, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai, Kane (UT) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Coconino County     (The home county of Campo Bonito)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Campo Bonito, with the one closest to Campo Bonito listed first.
    • Wiggins Crossing
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Wiggins Crossing is located in Coconino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiggins Crossing
    • Forest Lakes
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Clints Well
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Clints Well is located in Coconino County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clints Well
    • Happy Jack
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Gila County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Campo Bonito, with the one closest to Campo Bonito listed first.
    • Christopher Creek
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Christopher Creek is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christopher Creek
    • Kohls Ranch
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Kohls Ranch is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohls Ranch
    • Tonto Village
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Tonto Village is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonto Village
    • Bear Flat
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
      • Bear Flat is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Flat
    • Whispering Pines
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
      • Whispering Pines is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines
    • Freedom Acres
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Freedom Acres is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Acres
    • Mesa Del Caballo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Mesa Del Caballo is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Del Caballo
    • Star Valley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Star Valley is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Valley
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,327 people
      • Star Valley has also been known as:
      • Diamond Star
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Star Valley <1>
    • Sun Valley
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Sun Valley is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
    • Flowing Springs
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
      • Flowing Springs is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowing Springs
    • Geronimo Estates
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Geronimo Estates is located in Gila County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geronimo Estates
    • Payson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Navajo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Campo Bonito, with the one closest to Campo Bonito listed first.
    • Heber
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
    • Heber - Overgaard
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Heber - Overgaard is located in Navajo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heber - Overgaard
    • Overgaard
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Campo Bonito ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Campo Bonito.

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 Campo Bonito - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Stott, Scott & Wilson Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Payson Pioneer Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Mountain Meadows Memorial Park
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Baca Family Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • The Baca Family Cemetery is located on private property - be sure to secure permission before visiting.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baca Family Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Baca Family Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<3> to the southwest of Heber.
    • The Baca Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Baca Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217985 <2>
  • Young Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Pine Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pine Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pine Cemetery is located outside and to the east of Pine.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1978653 <2>
  • Gisela Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Heber Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)
  • Q Ranch Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Overgaard Baby Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Strawberry Old Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
  • Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery is located outside and to the northwest of Rye.
    • The Haught Ranch Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Last Roundup Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2253543 <2>
  • Brown Family Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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 Campo Bonito in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Campo Bonito.

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

  • Payson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Young
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Pine
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Rye
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Campo Bonito ...

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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Campo Bonito.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Campo Bonito, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Campo Bonito.

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 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 Campo Bonito:

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- Campo Bonito) 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 Campo Bonito, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.