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 Kom 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 Kom 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.
Kom 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 Kom Vo. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kom Vo:
- Pima County (The home county of Kom Vo)
- The following are listed by their distance from Kom Vo, with the one closest to Kom Vo listed first.
- Pisinemo
(5 miles [8 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pisinemo
- Pisinemo is located in Pima County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pisinemo <1>
- Wahak Hotrontk
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahak Hotrontk
- Wahak Hotrontk is located in Pima County
- Ali Chuk
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ali Chuk
- Ali Chuk is located in Pima County
- Allen ‑ Historic
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast) - Narcho Santos
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narcho Santos
- Narcho Santos is located in Pima County
- Gu Oidak
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gu Oidak
- Gu Oidak is located in Pima County
- Logan City ‑ Historic
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)- Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Logan City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan City
- Logan City is located in Pima County
- Maish Vaya
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maish Vaya
- Maish Vaya is located in Pima County
- Nolic
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolic
- Nolic is located in Pima County
- Cowlic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowlic
- Cowlic is located in Pima County
- Charco
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Charco
- Charco is located in Pima County
- Schuchuli
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Kom Vo, see our County-by-County Page for Kom Vo.
Newspapers Published in Kom 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 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kom Vo.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kom Vo, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kom Vo.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Kom Vo:
- Websites specific to Arizona
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //www.azlibrary.gov/arm
- Pages specific to Pima County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Arizona
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cemeteries of Pima County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Arizona
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Arizona
- Cemeteries of Pima County
Cemeteries Near Kom Vo ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kom 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 Kom Vo covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Kom Vo, with the one closest to Kom Vo listed first.
- Pisinimo Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pisinimo Cemetery
- Gu Vo Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gu Vo Cemetery
- Tohono O'odham Reservation Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tohono O'odham Reservation Cemetery
- Sikul Himatk Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sikul Himatk Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<4> to the southeast of Sells.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sikul Himatk Cemetery
- Cowlic Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cowlic Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2387814 <5>
- Nolic Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nolic Cemetery
- Gunsight Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gunsight Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gunsight Cemetery
- Hickiwan Cemetery
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hickiwan 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.<6>
While we didn't find Kom Vo in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kom Vo.
- Quijotoa ‑ Historic
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Kom Vo. See our List of 1890's Communities around Kom Vo.
Off-the-Road Links ...
Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Kom 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> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or 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- Kom Vo) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Kom Vo. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 31.9598, Longitude: -112.3490 In this case, the coordinates for Kom Vo have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |
| <5> | 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. |
| <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 Kom Vo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |