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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 Little Franks (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 Little Franks. 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.

Little Franks is located in Graham 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 Graham County: Apache, Cochise, Gila, Greenlee, Navajo, Pima & Pinal.

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

  • Graham County     (The home county of Little Franks)
    • Whitlock Cienega ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Whitlock Cienega have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitlock Cienega
      • Whitlock Cienega is located in Graham County
  • Cochise County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Franks, with the one closest to Little Franks listed first.
    • San Simon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Bowie
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Camp Bowie ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Camp Bowie
      • Camp Bowie is located in Cochise County
    • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Bowie
      • Fort Bowie is located in Cochise County
    • Dos Cabezas
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dos Cabezas
      • Dos Cabezas is located in Cochise County
    • Hilltop ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hilltop have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hilltop
      • Hilltop is located in Cochise County
  • Greenlee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Franks, with the one closest to Little Franks listed first.
    • Franklin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Franklin
      • Franklin is located in Greenlee County
    • Duncan
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Sheldon
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheldon
      • Sheldon is located in Greenlee County
  • Hidalgo County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Little Franks, with the one closest to Little Franks listed first.
    • Steins ‑ Historic
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steins
      • Steins is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Former name for Steins:
      • Stein's Pass
    • Virden
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Virden have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Virden
      • Virden is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 125 people
    • Shakespeare ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shakespeare
      • Shakespeare is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
      • Former name for Shakespeare:
      • Ralston City
    • Lordsburg
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
    • Cotton City
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cotton City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cotton City
      • Cotton City is located in Hidalgo County (NM)

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

Newspapers Published in Little Franks ...

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 8 newspapers that have been published in the area around Little Franks.

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

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 Little Franks:

Cemeteries Near Little Franks ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Little Franks.

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

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Little Franks, with the one closest to Little Franks 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.<5>

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

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

  • San Simon
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
  • Olga
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Olga have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olga
    • Olga is located in Cochise County
  • Bowie
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Steins ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Steins
    • Steins is located in Hidalgo County (NM)
    • Former name for Steins:
    • Stein's Pass
  • Duncan
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Fort Bowie ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Bowie
    • Fort Bowie is located in Cochise County
  • Luzena
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Luzena have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Luzena
    • Luzena is located in Cochise County
  • Sheldon
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sheldon
    • Sheldon is located in Greenlee County
  • Dos Cabezas
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dos Cabezas
    • Dos Cabezas is located in Cochise County

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

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

The official website for Graham County: www.graham.az.gov/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Little Franks) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Little Franks. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 32.4326, Longitude: -109.2153       In this case, the coordinates for Little Franks 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 Little Franks, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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