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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 Chamiso (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 Chamiso. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Chamiso is located in Cochise 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 Cochise County: Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Santa Cruz & Hidalgo (NM).

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

  • Cochise County     (The home county of Chamiso)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamiso, with the one closest to Chamiso listed first.
    • Whetstone
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whetstone have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whetstone
      • Whetstone is located in Cochise County
    • Benson
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Pomerene
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Mescal
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mescal
      • Mescal is located in Cochise County
    • Saint David
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Contention City ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Contention City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Contention City
      • Contention City is located in Cochise County
      • Contention City has also been known as:
      • Contention
    • Dragoon
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Fairbank ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbank
      • Fairbank is located in Cochise County
    • Huachuca City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • Tombstone
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Cochise
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Charleston ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Charleston have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charleston
      • Charleston is located in Cochise County
  • Pima County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamiso, with the one closest to Chamiso listed first.
    • Harrington Place ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Harrington Place have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harrington Place
      • Harrington Place is located in Pima County
    • Vail
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Corona de Tucson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Corona de Tucson have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Corona de Tucson
      • Corona de Tucson is located in Pima County
    • Esmond
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Esmond have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
      • Esmond is located in Pima County
    • Helvetia ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Helvetia have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Helvetia
      • Helvetia is located in Pima County
    • Tanque Verde
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque Verde
      • Tanque Verde is located in Pima County
    • Greaterville ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greaterville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaterville
      • Greaterville is located in Pima County
    • Wilmot
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wilmot have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
      • Wilmot is located in Pima County
  • Santa Cruz County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Chamiso, with the one closest to Chamiso listed first.
    • Elgin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Sonoita
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Kentucky Camp ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kentucky Camp
      • Kentucky Camp is located in Santa Cruz County

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

Newspapers Published in Chamiso ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Chamiso.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Chamiso, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Chamiso.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Chamiso:

Cemeteries Near Chamiso ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Chamiso.

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

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

  • Benson Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Benson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Benson Cemetery
  • Cochise Gardens of Rest Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • White Cross Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the White Cross Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the White Cross Cemetery
  • St. David Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. David Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. David Cemetery
  • Apodaca Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Apodaca Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Apodaca Cemetery
  • Dragoon Springs Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dragoon Springs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dragoon Springs Cemetery
  • Fairbank Pioneer Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Fairbank Pioneer Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairbank Pioneer Cemetery
  • Vail Childrens' Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Vail Childrens' Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Vail Childrens' Cemetery
  • Rincon Congregational Church Columbarium
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rincon Congregational Church Columbarium have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rincon Congregational Church Columbarium
  • Tombstone Cemetery (New)
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Tombstone Cemetery (Old)
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Gamez Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Fruitland Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Boothill Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Tanque Verde Ranch Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tanque Verde Ranch Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tanque Verde Ranch Cemetery

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.<6>

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

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

  • Benson
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Saint David
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Pantano
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pantano have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pantano
    • Pantano is located in Pima County
  • Contention City ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Contention City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Contention City
    • Contention City is located in Cochise County
    • Contention City has also been known as:
    • Contention
  • Dragoon
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Vail
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Fairbank ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairbank
    • Fairbank is located in Cochise County
  • Esmond
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Esmond have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
    • Esmond is located in Pima County
  • Tombstone
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Sonoita
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Greaterville ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Greaterville have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greaterville
    • Greaterville is located in Pima County

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

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

The official website for Cochise County: www.cochise.az.gov/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Chamiso) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Chamiso. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.9929, Longitude: -110.3545       In this case, the coordinates for Chamiso have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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.
<6>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 Chamiso, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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