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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Lapham. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Lapham to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Lapham, please Contact Us.

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 Lapham (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 Lapham. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Lapham is historic, it would have been located within present day Yavapai 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 Yavapai County: Coconino, Gila, La Paz, Maricopa & Mohave.

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

  • Yavapai County     (The home county of Lapham)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lapham, with the one closest to Lapham listed first.
    • Minnehaha Flats ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
    • Shelley ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Shelley. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelley
      • Shelley is located in Yavapai County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Shelley
      • From Lapham to Shelley
    • Minnehaha ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Minnehaha. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Minnehaha
      • Minnehaha is located in Yavapai County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Minnehaha
      • From Lapham to Minnehaha
    • Bradshaw City ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Oro Belle ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Oro Belle. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oro Belle
      • Oro Belle is located in Yavapai County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Oro Belle
      • From Lapham to Oro Belle
    • Fort Misery ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Fort Misery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Misery
      • Fort Misery is located in Yavapai County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Fort Misery
      • From Lapham to Fort Misery
    • Crown King
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Copperopolis ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Wagoner ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Middleton ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Middleton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Middleton
      • Middleton is located in Yavapai County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Middleton
      • From Lapham to Middleton
    • Humbug ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Briggs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Briggs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
      • Briggs is located in Yavapai County
    • Walnut Grove
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Maricopa County

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

Cemeteries Near Lapham ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lapham.

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

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

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.

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

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

  • Crown King
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Briggs
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Briggs have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Briggs
    • Briggs is located in Yavapai County
  • Walnut Grove
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Tip Top ‑ Historic
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Bumble Bee
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Cordes ‑ Historic
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Mayer
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Stanton ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Stanton. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stanton
    • Stanton is located in Yavapai County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Stanton
    • From Lapham to Stanton
  • Walker
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Stoddard ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Stoddard. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoddard
    • Stoddard is located in Yavapai County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Stoddard
    • From Lapham to Stoddard
  • Howells ‑ Historic
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Howells. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howells
    • Howells is located in Yavapai County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Howells
    • From Lapham to Howells
  • Big Bug ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Big Bug. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Big Bug
    • Big Bug is located in Yavapai County
    • Google driving directions:
    • From your current location to Big Bug
    • From Lapham to Big Bug
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Lapham ...

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 75 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lapham.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lapham, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<6>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lapham.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Lapham:

The official website for Yavapai County: www.co.yavapai.az.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Lapham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<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>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- Lapham) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lapham. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.1811, Longitude: -112.4024       In this case, the coordinates for Lapham have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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