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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 Diamond Bell Ranch (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 Diamond Bell Ranch. 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 Diamond Bell Ranch ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Diamond Bell Ranch: Diamond Bell Rnch.

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 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.

Diamond Bell Ranch is located in Pima County.

To see how the shape of Arizona's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

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

  • Pima County     (The home county of Diamond Bell Ranch)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Diamond Bell Ranch, with the one closest to Diamond Bell Ranch listed first.
    • Three Points
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Three Points is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Points
    • Sahuarita
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Drexel Heights
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Drexel Heights is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drexel Heights
    • Tucson Estates
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Tucson Estates is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tucson Estates
    • Green Valley
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Continental ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Continental is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Continental
    • East Sahuarita
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • East Sahuarita is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Sahuarita
    • Summit
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Summit is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Summit
    • Arivaca Junction
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Arivaca Junction is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arivaca Junction
    • South Tucson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • South Tucson is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Tucson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,742 people
    • Drexel - Alvernon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Drexel - Alvernon is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drexel - Alvernon
    • Pascua Yaqui Indian Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Haivana Nakya
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Haivana Nakya is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haivana Nakya
  • Santa Cruz County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Diamond Bell Ranch, with the one closest to Diamond Bell Ranch listed first.
    • Amado
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Tubac
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Madera Canyon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Tumacacori
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Diamond Bell Ranch ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Diamond Bell Ranch.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Diamond Bell Ranch - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Diamond Bell Ranch covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Twin Buttes Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Monte Calvario Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Green Valley Memorial Gardens
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • San Xavier Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Continental Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Cerro Colorado Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Amado Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • South Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Armory Park Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armory Park Cemetery
    • The Armory Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Military Plaza Park Cemetery
  • Haivana Nakya Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Haivana Nakya Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Haivana Nakya Cemetery is located 48 miles [77.2 km]<3> to the west of Tucson.
  • Evergreen Memorial Park
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Holy Hope Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...

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.<4>

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

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

  • Tucson
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Jaynes
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jaynes is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaynes
  • Arivaca
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Tubac
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Wilmot
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Wilmot is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot

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

Newspapers Published in Diamond Bell Ranch ...

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 206 newspapers that have been published in the area around Diamond Bell Ranch.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Diamond Bell Ranch, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Diamond Bell Ranch.

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 Diamond Bell Ranch:

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 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.
<3>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- Diamond Bell Ranch) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Diamond Bell Ranch, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.