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 Daze (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 Daze. 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 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.
Daze is located in Coconino 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 Coconino County: Gila, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai, Kane (UT) & San Juan (UT).
Below are the counties that are near Daze. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Daze:
- Coconino County (The home county of Daze)
- The following are listed by their distance from Daze, with the one closest to Daze listed first.
- Corva ‑ Historic
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast) - Williams
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Williams is located in Coconino County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,320 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williams <2>
- Williams Junction
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Williams Junction have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams Junction
- Williams Junction is located in Coconino County
- Parks
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parks
- Parks is located in Coconino County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parks <2>
- Yavapai County
- The following are listed by their distance from Daze, with the one closest to Daze listed first.
- Ash Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Fork
- Ash Fork is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ash Fork <2>
- Drake
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drake
- Drake is located in Yavapai County
- Puntenney ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south) - Paulden
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paulden
- Paulden is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Paulden <2>
- Seligman
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Seligman
- Seligman is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Seligman <2>
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Daze, see our County-by-County Page for Daze.
Newspapers Published in Daze ...
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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Daze.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Daze, there are papers which were published within 12 miles [19.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Daze.
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 Daze:
- 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 Coconino County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Yavapai County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Yavapai County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cemeteries of Coconino County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Arizona
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cemeteries of Coconino County
Cemeteries Near Daze ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Daze.
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 Daze covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Daze, with the one closest to Daze listed first.
- Ash Fork Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ash Fork Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56966 <5>
- Mountain View Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57073 <5>
- Puntenney Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- The Puntenney Cemetery has also been known as:
- Cedar Glen Cemetery
- Wood Spur Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Puntenney Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2458880 <5>
- Cedar Glade Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cedar Glade Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2472751 <5>
- Seligman Public Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Seligman Public Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2225841 <5>
- Del Rio Springs Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Del Rio Springs Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2524834 <5>
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 Daze in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Daze.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Daze, with the one closest to Daze listed first.
- Ash Fork
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ash Fork
- Ash Fork is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ash Fork <2>
- Williams
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williams
- Williams is located in Coconino County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 3,320 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Williams <2>
- Crookton
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west) - Puntenney ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Daze. See our List of 1890's Communities around Daze.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Daze. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.
The official website for Coconino County: www.co.coconino.az.us/
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> | 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. |
| <4> | 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- Daze) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Daze. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 35.2489, Longitude: -112.4043 In this case, the coordinates for Daze have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | 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. |
| <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 Daze, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |