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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 Mexican Water Trading Post (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 Mexican Water Trading Post. 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 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.

Mexican Water Trading Post 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 Mexican Water Trading Post. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Mexican Water Trading Post:

  • Apache County     (The home county of Mexican Water Trading Post)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mexican Water Trading Post, with the one closest to Mexican Water Trading Post listed first.
    • Tes Nez Iah
      (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
      • Tes Nez Iah is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tes Nez Iah
    • Totacon
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Totacon is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Totacon
    • Red Mesa
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Red Mesa is located in Apache County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Mesa
    • Rock Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Dennehotso
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Teec Nos Pos
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Round Rock
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
  • Navajo County
    • Baby Rocks
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Baby Rocks is located in Navajo County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Baby Rocks
  • San Juan County (UT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Mexican Water Trading Post, with the one closest to Mexican Water Trading Post listed first.
    • Tselakai Dezza
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Tselakai Dezza is located in San Juan County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tselakai Dezza
    • Halchita
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Halchita is located in San Juan County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Halchita
    • Mexican Hat
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • White Mesa Village
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • White Mesa Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Mesa Village
    • Bluff Fort ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Bluff Fort is located in San Juan County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bluff Fort
    • Red Lake Village
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Red Lake Village is located in San Juan County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Lake Village
    • Bluff
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • White Rock Curve Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Montezuma Creek
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Aneth
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Mexican Water Trading Post ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Mexican Water Trading Post.

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 Mexican Water Trading Post - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Mexican Water Trading Post covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Mexican Water Trading Post, with the one closest to Mexican Water Trading Post 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.<3>

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

  • Bluff
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either 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 Mexican Water Trading Post:

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.
<3>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 Mexican Water Trading Post, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.