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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 Litchfield (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 Litchfield. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Litchfield is located in Maricopa 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 Maricopa County: Gila, La Paz, Pima, Pinal, Yavapai & Yuma.

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

  • Maricopa County     (The home county of Litchfield)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Litchfield, with the one closest to Litchfield listed first.
    • Avondale
      (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Cashion
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the east)
    • Goodyear
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
    • Litchfield Park
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Tolleson
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
    • Liberty Village
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Liberty Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty Village
      • Liberty Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Maricopa Village
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maricopa Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maricopa Village
      • Maricopa Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Liberty
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Liberty is located in Maricopa County
    • Centura West
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Centura West
      • Centura West is located in Maricopa County
    • Citrus Park
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Citrus Park
      • Citrus Park is located in Maricopa County
    • Co-op Village
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Co-op Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Co-op Village
      • Co-op Village is located in Maricopa County
    • Laveen Village
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
  • Pinal County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Litchfield, with the one closest to Litchfield listed first.
    • Santa Cruz
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Santa Cruz have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Santa Cruz
      • Santa Cruz is located in Pinal County
    • Maricopa Wells ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Maricopa Wells have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Maricopa Wells
      • Maricopa Wells is located in Pinal County

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

Newspapers Published in Litchfield ...

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 378 newspapers that have been published in the area around Litchfield.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Litchfield, 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 Litchfield.

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 Litchfield:

Cemeteries Near Litchfield ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Litchfield.

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

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

  • Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goodyear Farms Historic Cemetery
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Cross Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Cross Cemetery
  • Heath Grave
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Heath Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Heath Grave
  • White Tanks Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Liberty Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Russian Molokan Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Russian Molokan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Russian Molokan Cemetery
  • Co-Op Village Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Louis B Hazelton Memorial Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Beth Israel Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beth Israel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth Israel Cemetery
  • Work Circle Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Work Circle Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Work Circle Cemetery
  • Glendale Memorial Park
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Glendale Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Glendale Memorial Park
  • Resthaven Park West Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Resthaven Park West Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Resthaven Park West Cemetery
  • Continue List   (27 more) ...
    • Sunwest Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunwest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunwest Cemetery
    • Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located in Phoenix.
      • The Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Forest Lawn Cemetery
      • Greenwood Memorial Cemetery
      • Memory Lawn Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Greenwood Memory Lawn Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57026 <4>
    • Beth El Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Beth El Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Beth El 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.<5>

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

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

  • Peoria
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Peoria
    • Peoria is located in Maricopa County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 179,872 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Peoria <1>
  • Buckeye
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Phoenix
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Phoenix
    • Phoenix is located in Maricopa County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,708,127 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Phoenix <1>
  • Tempe
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tempe
    • Tempe is located in Maricopa County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 200,402 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tempe <1>
  • Kyrene
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kyrene
    • Kyrene is located in Maricopa County
  • Heaton
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Heaton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heaton
    • Heaton is located in Pinal County
  • Estrella
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Estrella have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Estrella
    • Estrella is located in Maricopa County

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

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

The official website for Maricopa County: www.maricopa.gov/

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- Litchfield) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Litchfield. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 33.4267, Longitude: -112.3552       In this case, the coordinates for Litchfield 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>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 Litchfield, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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