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A visit to the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery ...

Introduction ...

Since our focus is on geography, we don't have burial or interment information. Nor do we have any contact information for the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery. For information of that nature, we suggest the Find-A-Grave <1> website: The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery (FG ID #518668)

Note: We have organized the cemeteries in our Gazetteer based on a problem that we had while working on our own genealogy. Without specifying the cemeteries involved, we found an ancestor that we believed to have been buried in one cemetery was actually buried elsewhere.

We discovered that his burial had been refused at the last moment and the family had scrambled to make new arrangements. By looking at nearby cemeteries, the surrounding communities and in newspapers of the period, we were finally able to locate his burial site.

Should you find yourself in the same situation, we hope that our Gazetteer helps you discover your lost ancestor.

The Location of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery ...

We are using the following GPS coordinates (latitude and longitude) for the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery

Lat:   32.7262°   (32° 43' 34")

Lon:   -114.6135°   (-114° 36' 48")

The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery is located in Yuma County<2>.

The county seat for Yuma County is located in Yuma. Yuma lies just to the south southwest of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery .

List of nearby cemeteries ...

Based on our list of cemeteries, we know of 15 that are within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3> of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery.<4>

We've listed the following cemeteries based on their distance from Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For an expanded list with details, please visit our List of cemeteries.

List of neighboring communities ...

The following 19 communities are within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities based on their distance from Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery, with the nearest first.

For the full list of neighboring communities with details, please visit our extended List of Communities.

Nearby communities with newspapers ...

The following communities are those where newspapers have been published and are located in the vicinity of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery. Unless otherwise noted, the following communities are located in Yuma County.

More information can be found on our list of Local Newspapers for The Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery.

We've listed the following communities alphabetically.

  • Fort Laguna - Historic
  • Gadsden
    • Gadsden lies 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the Southwest (SW) of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Gadsden.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gadsden
  • Somerton
    • Somerton lies 10 miles [16.1 km]<3> to the South Southwest (SSW) of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Somerton.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Somerton
  • Winterhaven
  • Yuma
    • Yuma lies 2 miles [3.2 km]<3> to the South Southwest (SSW) of the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery.
    • Jump to our list of Local Newspapers for Yuma.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yuma

Websites to help with your 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 websites are open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that might help with the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery:

Miscellaneous References and Mentions ...

Our approach is to add the name of a cemetery whenever we see it mentioned - usually from newspapers, old books and maps. Typically we have little information to start with, but we continue to add detail as we find it.

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that we found useful for the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery:

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Arizona's counties, including Yuma, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- ) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point at the Yuma Territorial Prison Cemetery. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.7262, Longitude: -114.6135    
<4>While we have an extensive database of cemeteries (with over 200,000 entries), you can be assured that it's not complete and our list will be missing cemeteries.
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>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.
<7>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.