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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 Lower Tillman (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 Lower Tillman. 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 northwest 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 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 west 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.

Lower Tillman is located in Coconino 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 Coconino County: Gila, Mohave, Navajo, Yavapai, Kane (UT) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Coconino County     (The home county of Lower Tillman)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Tillman, with the one closest to Lower Tillman listed first.
    • Wiggins Crossing
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wiggins Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiggins Crossing
      • Wiggins Crossing is located in Coconino County
    • Forest Lakes
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Lechee
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lechee have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lechee
      • Lechee is located in Coconino County
    • Winslow West
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winslow West have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winslow West
      • Winslow West is located in Coconino County
    • Clints Well
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clints Well
      • Clints Well is located in Coconino County
  • Gila County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Tillman, with the one closest to Lower Tillman listed first.
    • Christopher Creek
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christopher Creek
      • Christopher Creek is located in Gila County
    • Bear Flat
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Flat
      • Bear Flat is located in Gila County
    • Kohls Ranch
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohls Ranch
      • Kohls Ranch is located in Gila County
    • Tonto Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonto Village
      • Tonto Village is located in Gila County
  • Navajo County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Tillman, with the one closest to Lower Tillman listed first.
    • Heber
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Heber - Overgaard
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Heber - Overgaard
      • Heber - Overgaard is located in Navajo County
    • Overgaard
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Winslow
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Brigham City ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brigham City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brigham City
      • Brigham City is located in Navajo County
    • Sunset City ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunset City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset City
      • Sunset City is located in Navajo County
    • Sunset ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sunset. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset
      • Sunset is located in Navajo County

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

Newspapers Published in Lower Tillman ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Lower Tillman.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lower Tillman, there are papers which were published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lower Tillman.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Lower Tillman:

Cemeteries Near Lower Tillman ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lower Tillman.

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

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

  • Heber Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Overgaard Baby Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Stott, Scott & Wilson Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Stott, Scott & Wilson Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stott, Scott & Wilson Cemetery
  • Baca Family Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Baca Family Cemetery is located 9 miles [14.5 km]<4> to the northeast of Heber.
    • The Baca Family Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Baca Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Baca Family Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2217985 <5>
  • Whipple Memorial Park
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Whipple Memorial Park have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Whipple Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #57140 <5>
  • Desert View Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Desert View Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Winslow.
    • The Desert View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Winslow Desert View Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Desert View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1967591 <5>
  • Sunset Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Brigham City Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Brigham City Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • The Brigham City Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bellenger's Camp Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Brigham City Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1981013 <5>

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

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

The official website for Coconino County: www.co.coconino.az.us/

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>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Lower Tillman) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lower Tillman. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6284, Longitude: -110.7965       In this case, the coordinates for Lower Tillman 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.




 

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