Our Genealogy Helper
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 Canyon Day (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 Canyon Day. 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 and doctors 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.
Canyon Day is located in Gila 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 Gila County: Coconino, Graham, Maricopa, Navajo, Pinal & Yavapai.
Below are the counties that are near Canyon Day. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Canyon Day:
- Gila County (The home county of Canyon Day)
- The following are listed by their distance from Canyon Day, with the one closest to Canyon Day listed first.
- Cedar Creek
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
- Cedar Creek is located in Gila County
- Carrizo
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizo
- Carrizo is located in Gila County
- Apache County
- McNary
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McNary
- McNary is located in Apache County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McNary <1>
- McNary
- Navajo County
- The following are listed by their distance from Canyon Day, with the one closest to Canyon Day listed first.
- Fort Apache
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Apache
- Fort Apache is located in Navajo County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Apache <1>
- Sevenmile
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile
- Sevenmile is located in Navajo County
- Whiteriver
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whiteriver
- Whiteriver is located in Navajo County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Whiteriver <1>
- East Fork
(5 miles [8 km] to the east) - Pinetop
(23 miles [37 km] to the north) - Lakeside
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside
- Lakeside is located in Navajo County
- Pinetop - Lakeside
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinetop - Lakeside
- Pinetop - Lakeside is located in Navajo County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 4,516 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pinetop - Lakeside <1>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Canyon Day, see our County-by-County Page for Canyon Day.
Newspapers Published in Canyon Day ...
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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Canyon Day.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Canyon Day, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Canyon Day.
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 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 Canyon Day:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.azlibrary.gov/arm
- Pages specific to Gila County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Apache County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Navajo County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Apache County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cemeteries of Gila County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Arizona
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cemeteries of Gila County
Cemeteries Near Canyon Day ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Canyon Day.
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 Canyon Day covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Canyon Day, with the one closest to Canyon Day listed first.
- Canyon Day Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Canyon Day Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2161853 <4>
- Sevenmile Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sevenmile Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57118 <4>
- Whiteriver Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whiteriver Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57142 <4>
- Bush Flat Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)- The Bush Flat Cemetery has also been known as:
- Dove Road Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bush Flat Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56982 <4>
- Chief Alchesay Baha Gravesite
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chief Alchesay Baha Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56990 <4>
- Red Hill Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Red Hill Cemetery is located 11 miles [17.7 km]<3> to the southeast of Fort Apache.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Red Hill Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2159181 <4>
- Phipps Gravesite
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Phipps Gravesite. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Phipps Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2297072 <4>
- Lakeside Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeside Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1975874 <4>
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Canyon Day. See our List of 1890's Communities around Canyon Day.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Canyon Day. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Gila County: www.co.gila.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> | 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> | 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- Canyon Day) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Canyon Day. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.7869, Longitude: -110.0249 |
| <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> | 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. |