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Introduction ...

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

We've added Copper Hill to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Copper Hill, 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 Copper Hill (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 Copper Hill. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals 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 Copper Hill is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Copper Hill. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Copper Hill:

  • Gila County     (The home county of Copper Hill)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Hill, with the one closest to Copper Hill listed first.
    • Globe
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
    • Pinal
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinal
      • Pinal is located in Gila County
    • Midland City
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Midland City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Midland City
      • Midland City is located in Gila County
    • Claypool
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Inspiration
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inspiration have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inspiration
      • Inspiration is located in Gila County
    • Miami
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Cutter
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cutter
      • Cutter is located in Gila County
    • McMillenville ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McMillenville have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McMillenville
      • McMillenville is located in Gila County
      • McMillenville has also been known as:
      • McMillanville
      • McMillianville
    • Top-of-the-World
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Top-of-the-World
      • Top-of-the-World is located in Gila County
    • San Carlos
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Peridot
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Christmas ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Christmas have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christmas
      • Christmas is located in Gila County
  • Pinal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Copper Hill, with the one closest to Copper Hill listed first.
    • Silver King ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver King
      • Silver King is located in Pinal County
    • Superior
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Pinal ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pinal. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinal
      • Pinal is located in Pinal County
    • Kearny
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Smelter Town
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Smelter Town have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smelter Town
      • Smelter Town is located in Pinal County

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

Newspapers Published in Copper Hill ...

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 32 newspapers that have been published in the area around Copper Hill.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Copper Hill, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Copper Hill.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Copper Hill:

Cemeteries Near Copper Hill ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Copper Hill.

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

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

  • Pinal Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Serbian Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
  • Globe Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Mountain Breeze Memorial Gardenx
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
  • San Carlos Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Northgate Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Silver King Pioneer Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Silver King Pioneer Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Silver King Pioneer Cemetery
  • Upper Peridot Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Elgo Dam Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Lower Peridot Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Pinal City Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Pinal City Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pinal City Cemetery
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Reevis Gravesite
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Reevis Gravesite have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Reevis Gravesite
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57095 <6>
    • Kelvin Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kelvin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kelvin Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57045 <6>
    • Christmas Cemetery
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Christmas Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Christmas Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2324712 <6>

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

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

  • Globe
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
  • San Carlos
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Silver King ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Silver King
    • Silver King is located in Pinal County
  • Pinal ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pinal. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<4>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinal
    • Pinal is located in Pinal County
  • Riverside
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Riverside have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
    • Riverside is located in Pinal County
  • Reymert ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reymert have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reymert
    • Reymert is located in Pinal County

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

The official website for Gila County: www.co.gila.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 Copper Hill, 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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Copper Hill) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Copper Hill. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4276, Longitude: -110.7679    
<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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