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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 Del Muerto (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 Del Muerto. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Del Muerto is located in Apache 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 Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Apache County     (The home county of Del Muerto)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Del Muerto, with the one closest to Del Muerto listed first.
    • Chinle
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Tsaile
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Many Farms
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Sehili
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sehili
      • Sehili is located in Apache County
    • Coyote Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coyote Springs
      • Coyote Springs is located in Apache County
    • Wheatfields
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatfields
      • Wheatfields is located in Apache County
    • Lukachukai
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Nazlini
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Round Rock
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Woodsprings
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodsprings
      • Woodsprings is located in Apache County
      • Woodsprings has also been known as:
      • Woodspring Trading Post
    • Sawmill
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawmill
      • Sawmill is located in Apache County
    • Cottonwood
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
      • Cottonwood is located in Apache County
  • McKinley County (NM)
    • Navajo
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Navajo have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Navajo
      • Navajo is located in McKinley County (NM)
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Navajo <1>
  • San Juan County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Del Muerto, with the one closest to Del Muerto listed first.
    • Crystal
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
      • Crystal is located in San Juan County (NM)
    • Toadlena
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toadlena
      • Toadlena is located in San Juan County (NM)

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

Newspapers Published in Del Muerto ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Del Muerto.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Del Muerto, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Del Muerto.

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 Del Muerto:

Cemeteries Near Del Muerto ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Del Muerto.

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

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

  • Chinle Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Lukachukai Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lukachukai Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lukachukai Cemetery is located outside and to the south of Lukachukai.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lukachukai Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1976389 <4>
  • Cove Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Cove Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cove Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1997686 <4>

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

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

The official website for Apache County: www.co.apache.az.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>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- Del Muerto) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Del Muerto. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 36.1850, Longitude: -109.4439    
<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.




 

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