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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 Kinney Junction (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 Kinney Junction. 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 Kinney Junction ...

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 have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Kinney Junction: Kinney Jct. (or less commonly used: Kinney Jctn.)

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors 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.

Kinney Junction is located in Apache 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 Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Apache County     (The home county of Kinney Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinney Junction, with the one closest to Kinney Junction listed first.
    • McNary
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Greer
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Northwoods
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Northwoods
      • Northwoods is located in Apache County
    • Vernon
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
    • Eagar
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Gila County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinney Junction, with the one closest to Kinney Junction listed first.
    • Canyon Day
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon Day
      • Canyon Day is located in Gila County
    • Cedar Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek
      • Cedar Creek is located in Gila County
    • Carrizo
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carrizo
      • Carrizo is located in Gila County
  • Greenlee County
    • Sprucedale ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sprucedale have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sprucedale
      • Sprucedale is located in Greenlee County
  • Navajo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinney Junction, with the one closest to Kinney Junction listed first.
    • East Fork
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for East Fork have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Fork
      • East Fork is located in Navajo County
    • Whiteriver
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Sevenmile
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sevenmile
      • Sevenmile is located in Navajo County
    • Fort Apache
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Pinetop
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pinetop have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pinetop
      • Pinetop is located in Navajo County
    • Pinetop - Lakeside
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Lakeside
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeside
      • Lakeside is located in Navajo County
    • Show Low
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Kinney Junction ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kinney Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kinney Junction, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kinney Junction.

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 Kinney Junction:

Cemeteries Near Kinney Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kinney Junction.

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 Kinney Junction covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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

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

The official website for Apache County: www.co.apache.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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Kinney Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kinney Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.9173, Longitude: -109.7740       In this case, the coordinates for Kinney Junction 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>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.









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 09 Mar 2024