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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 Macks Crossing (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 Macks Crossing. 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.

Name Variations for Macks Crossing ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

While the name of this community is Macks Crossing, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Macks Crossing may originally have been Mack's Crossing.

Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Macks Crossing might be written as Mack Crossing.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 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.

Macks Crossing 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 Macks Crossing. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Macks Crossing:

  • Coconino County     (The home county of Macks Crossing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macks Crossing, with the one closest to Macks Crossing listed first.
    • Wiggins Crossing
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Wiggins Crossing have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wiggins Crossing
      • Wiggins Crossing is located in Coconino County
    • Clints Well
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clints Well
      • Clints Well is located in Coconino County
    • Happy Jack
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Forest Lakes
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Stoneman Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stoneman Lake
      • Stoneman Lake is located in Coconino County
    • Mormon Lake
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Gila County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Macks Crossing, with the one closest to Macks Crossing listed first.
    • Kohls Ranch
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kohls Ranch
      • Kohls Ranch is located in Gila County
    • Tonto Village
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tonto Village
      • Tonto Village is located in Gila County
    • Whispering Pines
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whispering Pines
      • Whispering Pines is located in Gila County
    • Christopher Creek
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Christopher Creek
      • Christopher Creek is located in Gila County
    • Bear Flat
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bear Flat
      • Bear Flat is located in Gila County
    • Geronimo Estates
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Geronimo Estates
      • Geronimo Estates is located in Gila County
    • Freedom Acres
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Freedom Acres
      • Freedom Acres is located in Gila County
    • Flowing Springs
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Flowing Springs
      • Flowing Springs is located in Gila County
    • Mesa Del Caballo
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mesa Del Caballo
      • Mesa Del Caballo is located in Gila County
    • Star Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Star Valley
      • Star Valley is located in Gila County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,327 people
      • Star Valley has also been known as:
      • Diamond Star
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Star Valley <3>
    • Sun Valley
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sun Valley have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Valley
      • Sun Valley is located in Gila County
    • Pine
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Macks Crossing ...

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 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Macks Crossing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Macks Crossing, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Macks Crossing.

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 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 Macks Crossing:

Cemeteries Near Macks Crossing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Macks Crossing.

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

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

  • Pine Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Strawberry Old Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Strawberry Old Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Strawberry Old Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2536032 <5>
  • Stott, Scott & Wilson Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • 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.<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stott, Scott & Wilson 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.<7>

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

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

  • Pine
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Payson
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Macks Crossing. 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>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Macks Crossing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Macks Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 34.6184, Longitude: -111.0926       In this case, the coordinates for Macks Crossing 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.
<6>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.
<7>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 Macks Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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