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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 Lower Wheatfields (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 Wheatfields. 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.

Lower Wheatfields is located in Apache 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 Apache County: Graham, Greenlee, Navajo, Montezuma (CO), Catron (NM), Cibola (NM), McKinley (NM), San Juan (NM) & San Juan (UT).

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

  • Apache County     (The home county of Lower Wheatfields)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Wheatfields, with the one closest to Lower Wheatfields listed first.
    • Wheatfields
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Wheatfields is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheatfields
    • Sehili
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
      • Sehili is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sehili
    • Tsaile
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Lukachukai
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Del Muerto
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Del Muerto is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Del Muerto
    • Sawmill
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Sawmill is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawmill
    • Chinle
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Red Rock
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Red Rock is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Rock
    • Red Valley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Red Valley is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Valley
    • Nazlini
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Round Rock
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Many Farms
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Woodsprings
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Woodsprings is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodsprings
      • Woodsprings has also been known as:
      • Woodspring Trading Post
  • McKinley County (NM)
    • Navajo
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • San Juan County (NM)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Wheatfields, with the one closest to Lower Wheatfields listed first.
    • Toadlena
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Toadlena is located in San Juan County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Toadlena
    • Crystal
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Crystal is located in San Juan County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crystal
    • Sanostee
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Newcomb
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Sheep Springs
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Naschitti
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Naschitti is located in San Juan County (NM)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Naschitti

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

Cemeteries Near Lower Wheatfields ...

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

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 Lower Wheatfields - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Lukachukai Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
  • Cove Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
  • Chinle Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chinle Cemetery
    • The Chinle Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Chinle Community Cemetery
    • Chinle Veteran's Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #56991 <2>
  • Lone Pine Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

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 Lower Wheatfields:

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.