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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 Kingston Knolls Terrace (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 Kingston Knolls Terrace. 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 Kingston Knolls Terrace ...

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 Kingston Knolls Terrace: Kingston Knls. Ter. (or less commonly used: Kingston Knls. Terr.)

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 northwest 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 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.

Kingston Knolls Terrace is located in Pima 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 Pima County: Cochise, Graham, Maricopa, Pinal, Santa Cruz & Yuma.

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

  • Pima County     (The home county of Kingston Knolls Terrace)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kingston Knolls Terrace, with the one closest to Kingston Knolls Terrace listed first.
    • Vandenberg Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Vandenberg Village is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Vandenberg Village
    • Tucson
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Tanque Verde
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Tanque Verde is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tanque Verde
    • Catalina Foothills
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Catalina Foothills is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catalina Foothills
    • Littletown
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Littletown is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Littletown
    • Drexel - Alvernon
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Drexel - Alvernon is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drexel - Alvernon
    • Polo Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
      • Polo Village is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Polo Village
    • Wilmot
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Wilmot is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
    • South Tucson
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • South Tucson is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Tucson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 5,742 people
    • Pascua Yaqui Indian Village
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
    • Casas Adobes
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Flowing Wells
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Flowing Wells is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowing Wells
    • Esmond
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Esmond is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
  • Cochise County
    • Mescal
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Mescal is located in Cochise County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mescal
  • Pinal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kingston Knolls Terrace, with the one closest to Kingston Knolls Terrace listed first.
    • Campo Bonito ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Campo Bonito is located in Pinal County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Campo Bonito
    • Oracle
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • San Manuel
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Kingston Knolls Terrace ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kingston Knolls Terrace.

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 Kingston Knolls Terrace - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • East Lawn Palms Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Lawn Palms Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the East Lawn Palms Cemetery is located in Tucson.
    • The East Lawn Palms Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Grantwood Memorial Park
    • Tucson Memorial Park East Lawn
    • Woodlawn Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #578346 <2>
  • All Faiths Memorial Park
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Binghampton Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
  • Tanque Verde Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Armory Park Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Armory Park Cemetery
    • The Armory Park Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Military Plaza Park Cemetery
  • South Lawn Memorial Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Holy Hope Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Pima County Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Tucson Pioneer Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Evergreen Memorial Park
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
  • Tanque Verde Ranch Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
  • Rincon Congregational Church Columbarium
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • San Xavier Cemetery
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Vail Childrens' Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Monte Calvario Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Tucson
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Wilmot
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Wilmot is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wilmot
  • Esmond
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Esmond is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Esmond
  • Jaynes
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jaynes is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jaynes
  • Vail
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Pantano
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Pantano is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pantano
  • Rillito
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Redington ‑ Historic
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Redington is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redington
  • Oracle
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)

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

Newspapers Published in Kingston Knolls Terrace ...

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 221 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kingston Knolls Terrace.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kingston Knolls Terrace, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kingston Knolls Terrace.

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 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 Kingston Knolls Terrace:

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>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 Kingston Knolls Terrace, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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 from Point A (ie- Kingston Knolls Terrace) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.