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 Flores (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 Flores. 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 hospitals 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.
Flores 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 Flores. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Flores:
- Yavapai County (The home county of Flores)
- The following are listed by their distance from Flores, with the one closest to Flores listed first.
- Congress
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Stanton ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Stanton is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton
- Octave ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Octave is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Octave
- Weaver ‑ Historic
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
- Weaver is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weaver
- Glen Ilah
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Glen Ilah is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glen Ilah
- Yarnell
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Constellation ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Constellation is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Constellation
- Peeples Valley
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Camp Date Creek ‑ Historic
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Camp Date Creek is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Date Creek
- Briggs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Briggs is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
- Wagoner ‑ Historic
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Wagoner is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagoner
- Copperopolis ‑ Historic
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Copperopolis is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copperopolis
- Walnut Grove
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
- Maricopa County
- The following are listed by their distance from Flores, with the one closest to Flores listed first.
- Wickenburg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Vulture City ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Vulture City is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulture City
- Vulture City has also been known as:
- Vulture Mine
- Vulture
- Morristown
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Circle City
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Circle City is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle City
- Aguila
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Wittmann
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Flores, see our County-by-County Page for Flores.
Cemeteries Near Flores ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Flores.
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 Flores - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Flores covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Flores, with the one closest to Flores listed first.
- Garcia Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garcia Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Garcia Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northwest of Wickenburg.
- The Garcia Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old Catholic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1704293 <3>
- St. Alban's Episcopal Church Memorial Garden
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Octave Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Old Congress Pioneer Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Congress Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Brill Ranch Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brill Ranch Cemetery
- The Brill Ranch Cemetery has also been known as:
- Martin Family Cemetery
- Camp Date Creek Pioneer Military Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Camp Date Creek Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Constellation Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
- Genung Memorial Park
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Genung Memorial Park
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Genung Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Peeples Valley.
- The Genung Memorial Park has also been known as:
- Genung Cemetery
- Genung Memorial Park Cemetery
- Peeples Valley Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2279078 <3>
- Vulture City Pioneer Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Morristown Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Continue List (15 more) ...
- Copperopolis Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Tom Walder Memorial Park
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
- Walnut Grove Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
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 Flores in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Flores.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Flores, with the one closest to Flores listed first.
- Congress
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Wickenburg
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Stanton ‑ Historic
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Stanton is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton
- Vulture City ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Vulture City is located in Maricopa County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vulture City
- Vulture City has also been known as:
- Vulture Mine
- Vulture
- Briggs
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Briggs is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
- Walnut Grove
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Walnut Grove is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walnut Grove
- Hillside ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
- Hillside is located in Yavapai County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hillside
- Crown King
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Flores. See our List of 1890's Communities around Flores.
Newspapers Published in Flores ...
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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Flores.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Flores, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Flores.
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 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 Flores:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Pages specific to Yavapai County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
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> | 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 drawn from Point A (ie- Flores) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |
| <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> | 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 Flores, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |