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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Congress Junction. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Congress Junction to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Congress Junction, please Contact Us.

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 Congress Junction (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 Congress Junction. 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.

Name Variations for Congress Junction ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Congress Junction: Congress Jct. (or less commonly used: Congress Jctn.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Congress Junction is historic, it would have been located within present day Yavapai 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 Yavapai County: Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa & Mohave.

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

  • Yavapai County     (The home county of Congress Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Congress Junction, with the one closest to Congress Junction listed first.
    • Congress
      (Less than 2 miles to the west)
    • Stanton ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton
      • Stanton is located in Yavapai County
    • Glen Ilah
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Ilah
      • Glen Ilah is located in Yavapai County
    • Yarnell
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Weaver ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Weaver. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaver
      • Weaver is located in Yavapai County
    • Octave ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Octave have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Octave
      • Octave is located in Yavapai County
    • Camp Date Creek ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Date Creek
      • Camp Date Creek is located in Yavapai County
    • Peeples Valley
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Constellation ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Constellation have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Constellation
      • Constellation is located in Yavapai County
    • Kirkland Junction
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kirkland Junction
      • Kirkland Junction is located in Yavapai County
    • Wagoner ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagoner
      • Wagoner is located in Yavapai County
    • Walnut Grove
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
      • Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County
    • Kirkland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Maricopa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Congress Junction, with the one closest to Congress Junction listed first.
    • Wickenburg
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Vulture City ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulture City
      • Vulture City is located in Maricopa County
      • Vulture City has also been known as:
      • Vulture Mine
      • Vulture
    • Aguila
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Morristown
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Circle City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Circle City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle City
      • Circle City is located in Maricopa County

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Congress Junction ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Congress Junction.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Congress Junction. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Congress Junction and those printed in the larger area surrounding Congress Junction.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<5> of Congress Junction.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Congress Junction:

Cemeteries Near Congress Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Congress Junction.

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

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

  • Congress Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Old Congress Pioneer Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
  • Octave Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Octave Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Octave Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2292708 <6>
  • Camp Date Creek Pioneer Military Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Camp Date Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Camp Date Creek Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Camp Date Creek Cemetery
  • Genung Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Genung Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Peeples Valley.
    • The Genung Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Genung Cemetery
    • Genung Memorial Park Cemetery
    • Peeples Valley Pioneer Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Genung Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2279078 <6>
  • Garcia Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
  • St. Alban's Episcopal Church Memorial Garden
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Brill Ranch Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Brill Ranch Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • The Brill Ranch Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Martin Family Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brill Ranch Cemetery
  • Constellation Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Constellation Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Constellation Cemetery
  • Walnut Grove Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Kirkland Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Thompson Valley Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Thompson Valley Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thompson Valley Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2434323 <6>
    • Copperopolis Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Santa Maria Pioneer Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)

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.

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

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

  • Congress
    (Less than 2 miles to the west)
  • Stanton ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Stanton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton
    • Stanton is located in Yavapai County
  • Wickenburg
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Hillside ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hillside have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
    • Hillside is located in Yavapai County
  • Walnut Grove
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
    • Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County
  • Briggs
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Briggs have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
    • Briggs is located in Yavapai County
  • Vulture City ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulture City
    • Vulture City is located in Maricopa County
    • Vulture City has also been known as:
    • Vulture Mine
    • Vulture
  • Skull Valley
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Crown King
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

The official website for Yavapai County: www.co.yavapai.az.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Congress Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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.
<5>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- Congress Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Congress Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1628, Longitude: -112.8449       In this case, the coordinates for Congress Junction have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>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.




 

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