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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 Hotason Vo (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 Hotason Vo. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and 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.

Hotason Vo is located in Pima 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 Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

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

  • Pima County     (The home county of Hotason Vo)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hotason Vo, with the one closest to Hotason Vo listed first.
    • Charco
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charco
      • Charco is located in Pima County
    • Schuchuli
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Schuchuli have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Schuchuli
      • Schuchuli is located in Pima County
      • Schuchuli has also been known as:
      • Gunsight Ranch
      • Gunsight Well
      • Gunsight
      • Sialatuck
    • Why
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Wahak Hotrontk
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahak Hotrontk
      • Wahak Hotrontk is located in Pima County
    • Vaya Chin
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vaya Chin
      • Vaya Chin is located in Pima County
    • Ajo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Mexican Town
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mexican Town have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mexican Town
      • Mexican Town is located in Pima County
    • Childs
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Childs
      • Childs is located in Pima County
    • Pisinemo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Ventana
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ventana
      • Ventana is located in Pima County
    • Maish Vaya
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maish Vaya
      • Maish Vaya is located in Pima County
    • Lukeville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Maricopa County
    • Kaka
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kaka
      • Kaka is located in Maricopa County

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

Newspapers Published in Hotason Vo ...

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 3 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hotason Vo.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hotason Vo, there are papers which were published within 17 miles [27.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hotason Vo.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Hotason Vo:

Cemeteries Near Hotason Vo ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hotason Vo.

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 Hotason Vo covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Gunsight Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gunsight Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gunsight Cemetery
  • Hickiwan Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Gu Vo Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Stoa Pitk Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Ajo Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Pisinimo Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Childs Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Childs Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the southeast of Childs.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Childs Cemetery
  • Tohono O'odham Reservation Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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.<5>

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

  • Quijotoa ‑ Historic
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Quijotoa have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quijotoa
    • Quijotoa is located in Pima County

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

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

The official website for Pima County: www.co.pima.az.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hotason Vo) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Hotason Vo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.2465, Longitude: -112.6049       In this case, the coordinates for Hotason Vo have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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>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 Hotason Vo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.









 

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