Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Dysart. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Dysart to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Dysart, 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 Dysart (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 Dysart. 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 doctors and hospitals 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Dysart is historic, it would have been located within present day Maricopa 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 Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.
Below are the counties that are near Dysart. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dysart:
- Maricopa County (The home county of Dysart)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dysart, with the one closest to Dysart listed first.
- El Mirage
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Youngtown
(Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
- Sun City
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
- Sun City West
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
- Surprise
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
- Sunset Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Sunset Village is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Village
- Westbrook Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Westbrook Village is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Westbrook Village
- Peoria Polynesian Village
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Peacock Village
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Peacock Village is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peacock Village
- Peoria
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Pioneer Village II
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Pioneer Village II is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Village II
- Waddell
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
- Pinal County
- Santa Cruz
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
- Santa Cruz is located in Pinal County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Cruz
- Yavapai County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dysart, with the one closest to Dysart listed first.
- Columbia ‑ Historic
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Columbia is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Columbia
- Gillett ‑ Historic
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Gillett is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gillett
- Humbug ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Humbug is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humbug
- Tip Top ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dysart, see our County-by-County Page for Dysart.
Cemeteries Near Dysart ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dysart.
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 Dysart - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dysart covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dysart, with the one closest to Dysart listed first.
- Sunwest Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
- Sunland Memorial Park
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Heath Grave
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
- White Tanks Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
- Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Russian Molokan Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Glendale Memorial Park
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- West Resthaven Park Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Resthaven Park Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the West Resthaven Park Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Glendale.
- The West Resthaven Park Cemetery has also been known as:
- Resthaven Cemetery
- Resthaven Park West Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57098 <3>
- Holy Cross Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Home Mission Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Home Mission Cemetery
- The Home Mission Cemetery has also been known as:
- Sleeping Bride Cemetery
- Phoenix Memorial Park
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Beth Israel Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (35 more) ...
- Work Circle Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Beth El Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Phoenix.
- The Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
- Forest Lawn Cemetery
- Greenwood Memorial Cemetery
- Memory Lawn Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57026 <3>
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 Dysart in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dysart.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dysart, with the one closest to Dysart listed first.
- Peoria
(5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
- Phoenix
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Buckeye
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Tempe
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Cave Creek
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- Kyrene
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Kyrene is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyrene
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dysart. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dysart.
Newspapers Published in Dysart ...
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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dysart.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dysart, 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 Dysart.
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 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 Dysart:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Maricopa County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Pinal County
- Yavapai County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
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 Dysart, 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 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. |
| <4> | 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- Dysart) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |