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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 Kupk (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 Kupk. 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 doctors and 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.

Kupk 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 Kupk. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Kupk:

  • Pima County     (The home county of Kupk)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kupk, with the one closest to Kupk listed first.
    • Gu Oidak
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Gu Oidak is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gu Oidak
    • Pisinemo
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Allen ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
      • Allen is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Allen
    • Logan City ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Logan City is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan City
    • Cowlic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Cowlic is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cowlic
    • Narcho Santos
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
      • Narcho Santos is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Narcho Santos
    • Maish Vaya
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Maish Vaya is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maish Vaya
    • Nolic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Nolic is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nolic
    • Sells
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Wahak Hotrontk
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Wahak Hotrontk is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wahak Hotrontk
    • Ko Vaya
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Ko Vaya is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ko Vaya
    • Ali Chuk
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Ali Chuk is located in Pima County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ali Chuk

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

Cemeteries Near Kupk ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kupk.

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 Kupk - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Pisinimo Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Cowlic Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sikul Himatk Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sikul Himatk Cemetery is located 16 miles [25.7 km]<3> to the northwest of Sells.
  • Nolic Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Tohono O'odham Reservation Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
  • Gu Vo Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gu Vo Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gu Vo Cemetery is located 19 miles [30.6 km]<3> to the northeast of Lukeville.
  • Komlic Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Ak Chin Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ak Chin Cemetery
    • The Ak Chin Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Akchin Cemetery
  • Santa Rosa Francisco Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

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.<4>

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

  • Quijotoa ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Quijotoa is located in Pima County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quijotoa

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

Newspapers Published in Kupk ...

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 Kupk.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kupk, there are papers which were published within 19 miles [30.6 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kupk.

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 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 Kupk:

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>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- Kupk) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Kupk, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.