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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 Happy Jack (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 Happy Jack. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Happy Jack is located in Coconino County.

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

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Coconino County: Gila, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai, Kane (UT) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Coconino County     (The home county of Happy Jack)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Happy Jack, with the one closest to Happy Jack listed first.
    • Stoneman Lake
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneman Lake
      • Stoneman Lake is located in Coconino County
    • Mormon Lake
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
    • Clints Well
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clints Well
      • Clints Well is located in Coconino County
    • Rockledge
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rockledge
      • Rockledge is located in Coconino County
    • Munds Park
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Mountainaire
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountainaire
      • Mountainaire is located in Coconino County
    • Wiggins Crossing
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wiggins Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiggins Crossing
      • Wiggins Crossing is located in Coconino County
    • Kachina Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Gila County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Happy Jack, with the one closest to Happy Jack listed first.
    • Strawberry
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Pine
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Geronimo Estates
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geronimo Estates
      • Geronimo Estates is located in Gila County
    • Whispering Pines
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines
      • Whispering Pines is located in Gila County
    • Flowing Springs
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowing Springs
      • Flowing Springs is located in Gila County
    • Freedom Acres
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Acres
      • Freedom Acres is located in Gila County
  • Yavapai County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Happy Jack, with the one closest to Happy Jack listed first.
    • Big Park
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Big Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Park
      • Big Park is located in Yavapai County
    • Oak Creek
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Sedona
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Lake Montezuma
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Rimrock
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • McGuireville
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McGuireville
      • McGuireville is located in Yavapai County
    • West Sedona
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Camp Verde
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Cornville
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Happy Jack ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Happy Jack.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Happy Jack, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Happy Jack.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start 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 Happy Jack:

Cemeteries Near Happy Jack ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Happy Jack.

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.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

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

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

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.<6>

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

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

  • Pine
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Camp Verde
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Cornville
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Happy Jack. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Coconino County: www.co.coconino.az.us/

The official website for State of Arizona: https://az.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Happy Jack) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Happy Jack. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.7429, Longitude: -111.4087    
<4>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.
<5>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<6>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 Happy Jack, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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