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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 Freeman (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 Freeman. 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 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.

Freeman is located in 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 Freeman. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Freeman:

  • Maricopa County     (The home county of Freeman)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Freeman, with the one closest to Freeman listed first.
    • Mobile
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Mobile is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mobile
    • Bosque
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Bosque is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosque
    • Kaka
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Kaka is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaka
    • Gila Bend
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Gila Bend is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila Bend
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
      • Former name for Gila Bend:
      • Gila
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gila Bend <1>
    • San Lucy Village
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • San Lucy Village is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Lucy Village
    • Gila Crossing
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Gila Crossing is located in Maricopa County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila Crossing
  • Pima County
    • Ventana
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Ventana is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventana
  • Pinal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Freeman, with the one closest to Freeman listed first.
    • Ak-Chin Village
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Ak-Chin Village is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak-Chin Village
    • Ak Chin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Ak Chin is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin
    • Stanfield
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Maricopa
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Vaiva Vo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Vaiva Vo is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaiva Vo
    • Chiapuk ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Chiapuk is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chiapuk
    • Maricopa Wells ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Maricopa Wells is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maricopa Wells
    • Kohatk
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Kohatk is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohatk
    • Santa Cruz
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Santa Cruz is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Cruz
    • Tat Momoli
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Tat Momoli is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tat Momoli
    • Chuichu
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Chuichu is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chuichu
    • Casa Blanca
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Casa Blanca is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Casa Blanca
    • North Komelik
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • North Komelik is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Komelik

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

Cemeteries Near Freeman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Freeman.

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 Freeman - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Bosque Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Ak Chin Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Cockleburr Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cockleburr Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Cockleburr Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the southwest of Casa Grande.
    • The Cockleburr Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cuckelburr Cemetery
    • Cuckleburr Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2232225 <2>
  • Hee - A - Hand Park
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Stout Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Stoa Pitk Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Chuichu South Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • West Casa Blanca Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Casa Blanca Cemetery
    • The West Casa Blanca Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Cowboy Cemetery

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 Freeman in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Freeman.

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

  • Estrella
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Estrella is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
  • Heaton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Heaton is located in Pinal County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
  • Bosque
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Bosque is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bosque
  • Maricopa
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Gila Bend
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Gila Bend is located in Maricopa County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gila Bend
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,118 people
    • Former name for Gila Bend:
    • Gila
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Gila Bend <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Freeman ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Freeman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Freeman, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Freeman.

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 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 Freeman:

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 drawn from Point A (ie- Freeman) 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 Freeman, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.