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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 East Fort (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 East Fort. 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 East Fort ...

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.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might occur.

For example, a typical abbreviation for East Fort: E. Fort

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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

East Fort is located in Yavapai 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 Yavapai County: Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa & Mohave.

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

  • Yavapai County     (The home county of East Fort)
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Fort, with the one closest to East Fort listed first.
    • Crown King
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
    • Oro Belle ‑ Historic
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Oro Belle is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Belle
    • Bumble Bee
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Bradshaw City ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Bradshaw City is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bradshaw City
    • Fort Misery ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Fort Misery is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Misery
    • Middleton ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Middleton is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
    • Tip Top ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
    • Cleator ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Cleator is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cleator
    • Black Canyon City
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Humbug ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Humbug is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Humbug
    • Lapham ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Lapham is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lapham
    • Minnehaha Flats ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Minnehaha Flats is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnehaha Flats
    • Minnehaha ‑ Historic
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Minnehaha is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnehaha
  • Maricopa County
    • The following are listed by their distance from East Fort, with the one closest to East Fort listed first.
    • New River
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Anthem
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Cave Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Morristown
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Carefree Foothills
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Carefree Foothills is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carefree Foothills
    • Carefree
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Circle City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Circle City is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle City
    • Wickenburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Wittmann
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near East Fort ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of East Fort.

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 East Fort - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Kentucks Gravesite
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Crown King Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Bradshaw City Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Champie Mill Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Champie Mill Cemetery
    • The Champie Mill Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Allen's Mill Cemetery
  • Shelley Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Minnehaha Flats Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Columbia Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Black Canyon City Municipal Memorial Park
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Champie Ranch Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Gillett Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Copperopolis Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Mayer Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mayer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mayer Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of Mayer.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1985663 <2>
  • Continue List   (28 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 East Fort in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of East Fort.

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

  • Crown King
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Bumble Bee
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Tip Top ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Tip Top is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tip Top
  • Cordes ‑ Historic
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Cordes is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cordes
  • Briggs
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Briggs is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
  • Big Bug ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Big Bug is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bug
  • Mayer
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Stoddard ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Stoddard is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoddard
  • Walnut Grove
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
  • Walker
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Walker is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
  • Howells ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Howells is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howells
  • Stanton ‑ Historic
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Stanton is located in Yavapai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Cave Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Fort Whipple
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Fort Whipple is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Whipple
    • Whipple
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Whipple is located in Yavapai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whipple

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

Newspapers Published in East Fort ...

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 91 newspapers that have been published in the area around East Fort.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of East Fort, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for East Fort.

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 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 East Fort:

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- East Fort) 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 East Fort, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.